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To: TobagoJack who wrote (52389)	8/18/2004 11:37:46 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

<All the Islamists have to do is sit back and wait for the current regimes to become socially and politically undermined > With all the help despots get from the US government they hardly HAVE to wait! How many times to US governments have to learn the same lesson... "don't pick your scab! It will make it worse!" DAK

To: TobagoJack who wrote (52389)	8/23/2004 4:35:46 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

... if it were only as simple as them sitting back waiting. <<Iraq: Militant Groups United By Common Enemy? Now sit back and really think about this.. Here was Al-Sadr, 6 months to a year ago, doing his "own thing" (except for his Iranian hardline financiers) and now he's having to ally with the Sunni extremists.. An alternative analysis is that possibly they recognize that the current Iraqi government, and the forthcoming elections in January, are gaining more traction than they had expected... When we have two diametrically opposed rivals for power cooperating, and potentially joining forces, one can also opine that it's an act of mutural desperation to salvage their own individual causes. My opinion... Hawk