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To: quehubo who wrote (56048)	7/25/2004 9:30:51 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793622

Liberating Iraq was the most threatening thing we could do to Iran short of actually invading it instead of Iraq. How strange, then, that Iraqi agents were actively encouraging the invasion by feeding the US trumped-up stories about WMD. The US presence in Iraq has, if anything, strengthened the hand of the mullahs in Teheran. Haven't you noticed how terribly silent the Iranian opposition has been lately? As the US presence withdraws and a democratic government emerges, at least temporarily, the dominant force in the new Iraq will be the Shiite community, which has been heavily infiltrated by the Iranians for many years. Iran is likely to have far more influence in a democratic Iraq than the US. Now if they can just get us to carve off the Shiite-dominated oil-rich areas of Saudi Arabia, they will have the makings of a Shiite coalition with control of a truly scary percentage of the world's oil. And we will have done the heavy lifting for them.