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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (159015)	2/25/2006 12:10:37 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794206

And the Baathists who are working with them seem to be convinced that they will win if they can manage to trigger a civil war. I think the Iraqi Sunnis look upon the Shias as Iraqi's "blacks." Inferior human beings who are subservient to them. The Sunnis got all the money and education while they ran things for the last 30 years. They just can't conceive of losing out to them.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (159015)	2/25/2006 9:55:56 AM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 794206

My argument about iranian complicity in the mosque attack is most certainly a long shot. No, i never thought al sadr had anything to do with it. But iran is awash with money and as someone pointed out yesterday they ally themselves with atheist china and anti-muslim russia for profit and have parnered with al quaeda when it suits their interests. So it is not out of the realm of possiblity that the sleazy iranian leadership including the mullahs also wanted to set off a civil war so they could 3 state the country and make the US presence more problematic. They could be the financiers of such an attack or used their secret forces to influence the sunnis to do such a dastardly thing. As you can see i hate the mullahs. One other point. Back in the day when balance of power held sway--the cw on fp might be that the US should ally with one of the arab groups against the other. Given our inablity to win in iraq (or lose), do we start being machievellian in iraq and in the region if only to protect our oil interests? And how can that be done with iran/venezuala on one side and saudi/kurd on the other? Yeah its not the cold war period but we may have to consider such things if the iranians/al q get their wish and 3 state happens in some form. Mike