[wildcatf4f3]

its win/win either way--a new demo ally or the whole mid east goes up in flames. either way is fine by me. PS i wouldn't count on a rational outcome with all the radical islamics, both overt and covert. Iran would love to defeat Bush by proxy just as they taunt israel via islamic jihad. If the screw they pooch, we let them bleed each other and come in when they're weak.

[Marine_Uncle]

"its win/win either way"
Can't help but agree on your elucidations. Plus more we can come up with. The gloom squads can continue bitching and moaning, it is their right to do so. I just can't believe things are working out for the better, in essence GWB and companies primary goals have been, and will be completed. Which of course includes us having a permenant footprint in the center of the ME. There is no way Sistani is going to let some firebrand invite Iranian influence to take control. He wants nothing to do with the Persians and their form of Islam.