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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (184823)	4/8/2006 3:52:44 PM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I know your IQ is single digits but let's try this one more time: The adviser went on, “If we go, the southern half of Iraq will light up like a candle.” The American, British, and other coalition forces in Iraq would be at greater risk of attack from Iranian troops or from Shiite militias operating on instructions from Iran. (Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, has close ties to the leading Shiite parties in Iraq.) A retired four-star general told me that, despite the eight thousand British troops in the region, “the Iranians could take Basra with ten mullahs and one sound truck.” Message 22339370