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To: Elroy who wrote (206085)	10/11/2004 3:51:19 PM
From: Elroy	Respond to of 1574794

The George Bush plan Bush Slams Kerry for Comments on Terror Our goal is to defeat terror by staying on the offensive, destroying terrorist networks and spreading freedom and liberty around the world. news.yahoo.com 1. "Staying on the offensive" means exactly what? Which country is up next in this offensive????? 2. Where are these terrorist networks? 3. And in regard to spreading freedom and liberty, when is he going to spread some freedom and liberty into Saudi Arabia, the source of fundamental, anti-western Islamic philosophy? More detail would be nice, George, What exactly do you mean?????? Elroy

To: Elroy who wrote (206085)	10/11/2004 8:13:16 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574794

And Iraqi Shia have made zero allusions to joining Iran - where do you get this from? You think they are going to take their newfound potential freedoms and give them away immediately - no chance! Especially to a country that many of them fought an 8 year war against less than 2 decades ago. Do a search..........there are tons of articles discussing the affinity between the Iraqi Shia and the Shia of Iran. I've posted two below. Many Iraqi Shia fled to Iran to escape Saddam and have lived there in exile. Iraq's Ayatollah lived in Iran until the fall of Saddam. The Shia are a disliked minority in the ME. Iran and Iraq are the only two significant countries where the Shia are a majority. The Iraqi Shia have much stronger ties to the Iranians than they do to the Iraqi Sunni who, under Saddam, torture and killed them. Its the Iranian who have been aiding the Iraqi Shia insurgents. You are whistling dixie if you don't see this as a potential problem in Iraq. Its why there is talk of civil war. It may well be that the Iraqis see themselves as Iraqis but the form of gov't and the geography of the nation that Iraq takes is subject to divergent interpretation. ************************************************ Tensions grow between Iraqi Shiites and US** March 16, 2004 America is taking a dim view of the growing ties between the Shiites of Iraq and of neighbouring Iran. Paul McGeough reports from Baghdad. The eagerness of post-Saddam Iraq to embrace its Shiite neighbours in Iran has become a new pressure point as Iraq's Shiite majority stonewalls US attempts to dictate the shape of a new government in Baghdad. theage.com.au yorknewstimes.com