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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wayners who wrote (636417)	10/1/2004 9:20:36 PM
From: Shtirlitz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

In the times difficulties, turmoil and uncertainty a lot of people turn to religion. So quite the opposite will most likely happen. Its not the democracy that will rub off on Iran, its the Iraninan extreme Islam that will rub off on Shia muslims in Iraq. Iranian clerics will move into the vacuum fast. I think its much more likely outcome.

To: Wayners who wrote (636417)	10/2/2004 12:27:54 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"Yes its possible that the Shia will establish ties with Iran." (I'd say: 'likely'.) "But thats what we want at this point. We want democracy of Iraq to rub off on the oppressed shia in Iran and make them hope and wish for more in their lives." That is certainly one of the long-term possibilities... and much to be wished for. But other possibilities are present also. It's possible that ties with the radical Theocrats running Iran will radicalize the Iraqi Shia population --- perhaps leading to an increasing polarization of the Muslim world --- with civil war in Iraq aided and abeited by Wa'habbist Sunni societies in Saudi Arabia and Syria... arrayed against the Shia. With a 'Sunni nuclear bomb' in Pakistan, and a 'Shia bomb' in Iran the possibly WORST possible outcome.