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To: michael97123 who wrote (147999)	10/15/2004 10:35:01 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Yes, the article on Sadr and Chalabi is interesting -- I am not certain of the stability of a Chalabi/Sadr partnership, but it stands to reason that they could use each other. Chalabi needs a base of support in Iraq -- he is as much a foreigner as an Iraqi. Sadr gives him better access to that base. Sadr needs somebody who can snake through the networks needed to be a power player on a level above the street politics that he plays so well. Chalabi and Sadr both increased their stature by flipping the US the bird. Together, they could win elections and run the show as they like. Chalabi would line his pockets and the pockets of his "friends" and Sadr could lead Iraq back to the social policies of the 12th century -- well worth a few hundred billion dollars of US tax payers money.