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To: geode00 who wrote (167150)	7/25/2005 5:47:15 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Can US, Britain 'win' in Iraq? csmonitor.com Expanding insurgency, signs of civil war have some experts asking the question out loud. <<...There is another way we could fail in Iraq. That would be for the pro-Iranian Islamic fundamentalists (the most militant among the ruling Shiite alliance) to conquer power through political force, intimidation, and intrigue, like the Leninists of a previous era. That has begun to happen in Iraq, with the steadily rising power of SCIRI (the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq—so named for a reason) and its 15,000-man militia, the Badr Organization (trained in Iran by the Revolutionary Guards). Adding to the danger is the growing mobilization of other militant Islamist militias. Perhaps that was one reason why the administration tried covertly to rescue Allawi's campaign [as reported by Seymour Hersh in the most recent New Yorker.]. It is another sign of this administration's incompetence and duplicity that the very prospect it has most feared has been advanced by its bungling...>>