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Iran: For peace in the region? No! For a piece *of* the region...
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Fri, 4 Apr 2003 05:28:16 GMT
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some excerpts from.
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030403-024040-6730r
Iran's senior leadership decided last month to send irregular paramilitary
units across their border with Iraq to harass American soldiers once Saddam
Hussein's regime fell, according to U.S. intelligence reports.
"This confirmed all of our suspicions that the Iranians are not our friends
and not for peace in the region. They are in fact for a piece of the
region," one U.S. intelligence official told United Press International.
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The quagmire here is not IN Iraq, much to the dismay of the pundits who have
been opining that every chance we get. Winning the war in Iraq is the easy part.
The quagmire is that we are going to need to fix a bunch of other people's
wagons to get Iraq to resolve satisfactorily... Syria has to give back all
the WoMD that Iraq shipped there and stop sending fighters in, Iran has to
stop sending fighters in, Jordan has to stop illegally selling oil, Turkey
has to be restrained from knocking off the Kurds, the Kurds have to be
restrained from carving off a piece of Turkey and a piece of Iran for
"Kurdistan"... Saudi Arabia has to stop funding terrorists... Russia has to
stop selling baby evil empires military hardware (they have helped all three
of the axis of evil countries) and worst of all...
France and Germany need to be dealt with for (among many other things) first
blocking NATO from figuring out how to aid Turkey if she were attacked, and
then strongarming the Turkish opposition into voting as a block against
deployment by threatening to block Turkey from ever joining the EU if they
helped the US... thus probably costing thousands of innocent civilian lives
by prolonging the war.
What a mess. Win the war, lose the peace...
I could go on.
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