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To: michael97123 who wrote (7050)	12/16/2005 1:59:45 PM
From: Suma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540880

Agreed agreed... Here is another interesting point of view about the elections that points to IRAN.. THAT country that..in my opinion is going to be a thorn in the side of Iraq.. From the IMUS program. He is a kook but I like him and he does have interesting guests.. NEWS QUOTE OF THE DAY #2 Imus: "Not to make too much of it, but it's fair to say that it was a lot more successful yesterday (voting in Iraq) than anybody anticipated. I mean I know the Bush administration and a lot of people who support their position hoped it would be but unlike anybody thought it would be. I mean, did you?" CNN's Jeff Greenfield: "Well as you know, and this may surprise you, I'm reluctant to weigh in in detail about areas that I only pretend to know anything about. That is what I was saying, this is good news and one of the things that strikes me if I can descend into politics, is how does the opposition deal with what looks like good news. Because I think one of the things that's happening here is if the democratic leadership in general, put aside Joe Lieberman, is striking consistently negative notes, I'm not sure that this country is going to want that. The Democrats have to figure out a way to not only say but to mean we want Iraq to end in a positive way, but we also want the Bush administration held accountable for the disastrous mistakes that have made this longer and costlier particularly for the military than it had to have been. That is a very interesting line to walk. If all we are going to hear from the Democrats in the wake of this news is, yea, well, I bet it really wasn't that good, that's not going to have a good impact. So what I am saying is yea, I think this is probably a really good piece of news but what it means six months from now is the question. And I keep coming back to one thing that I've learned from people who know a hell of a lot more than I do, which is not a high bar, is the player to keep your eye on all of this is Iran. Between it's wealth and it's size, and it's clear, pardon the fancy word, hegemonic impulses, that they want to dominate that region, and I think that they are looking at Iraq and saying, ah-ha, if we can get strong Islamic Shiites running that government we are going to have any ally there. And then the question, is an ally to do what? So that is why this new government has such a tricky task ahead of itself. To maintain security, to bring in the Sunnis and to figure out someway of building a loosely federalized region that doesn't descend into ineffectuality or a kind of authoritarian alliance with the most dangerous government in the region. "