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To: Keith Feral who wrote (170654)	9/22/2005 12:21:08 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Look at the fact that Iranian Shiites (Hamas) are directing most of the terrorism in Sunni based Palestine Sorry Bob.. Hamas is an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood (Ihkwan), which is Wahhabist/Salafist in origin. The Iranian equivalent is Hizbullah, primarily in Lebanon (and growing in Iraq). But I do concur that rather than looking to religious rabble rousers, only interested in increasing their OWN religious (and political) power, they are going to need to think more as Iraqis, if not just the fact that they are Arabs. A sense of nationalism by all factions would be very welcome.. But the Shiites, and the Kurds, are going to have to face the fact that the Sunnis will need to have a viable place in Iraqi society, and their share of the oil profits. This country is like any other.. Power and money (sometimes interchangable).. And there is a massive struggle underway to see who's going to have dominance over the only major oil producer in the region NOT facing a peak in their oil production. Iraq can pump a lot of oil, and likely dominate the entire regional economy, were they to get their oil production up to Saudi or Iranian standards. And of course, those two countries don't have any interest in seeing that occur. Hawk