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Re: Iran: For peace in the region? No! For a piece *of* the region...
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Fri, 4 Apr 2003 05:32:17 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> some excerpts from.
>
> http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030403-024040-6730r
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> 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.
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> "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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> - end -
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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.
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> 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...
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> 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.
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> What a mess. Win the war, lose the peace...
> I could go on.
Well you could get a little comfort from thinking how accurate U.S.
intelligence reports on WMD have been.
ROSCO
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