Keith Willshaw wrote:

"kirill" wrote in message
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assurancetourix wrote:

Bush is smarter than I thought; he seems to have adopt the second
solution recently, any protest from Sistani are taken seriously by the
US authorities.

The Iraqi Shiites are aligned with the Iranian ones so I don't see them
being willing clients to Uncle $am.

In fact the Iraqi Shia's are being generally quite well behaved and
the Iranians have so far largely refrained from causing trouble. The
few attacks and bomb explosions in Shia sections of Iraq
have been largely aimed at the Shia community.

Furthermore, the Shias of Iraq are not one monolithic community.
They are above all, Iraqis (except for the Kurds), and aren't
necessarily inclined to do anything Iranian. There's a wide range
of views in the community including wanting nothing to do with an
Islamic republic.

They do uniformly want to have a say in the affairs of their country.

Of course the Iranians have a major political crisis at
home to worry about right now with a major clash
looming between the Iranian Parliament and the
Mullah's

Hard to believe the US is quite a popular country amongst common
Iranians now days. (Perhaps not so hard to believe given half of
Iranians weren't even born when the Islamic Republic was born).

The Iranians will stumble and bumble their way eventually into a
genuinely working, democratic state.

The mullahs are seen (and indeed have become) incredibly corrupt
individuals. Their days are numbered, and it won't be through
any action by the US. The Islamic Republic will be destroyed
through the actions of its own people.


SMH