Posted on 01/12/2007 1:02:57 PM PST by BlueJ7
"Six Iranians held in a US military raid in northern Iraq were working there with the approval of the authorities, Iraq's foreign minister has said. They were part of an Iranian liaison office which had been operating for many years, Hoshyar Zebari said. He said the office in Irbil did not yet have full consular diplomatic status but that this was under consideration," the BBC reports.
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have they sold out to a better deal than a democracy they do not want to accept?
fool 7th century sandpeople
A quick look at info on Google about Zebari (who is a Kurd) and he seems like a good guy.
However, he said this last May.......so it makes you wonder ........
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/26/iraq.iran/
Screw them then. Let them all eat sand.
What everybody seems to forget is that we also got a boatload of documents/computers. It will be very interesting to see what kind of intel we gained. Hopefully, names, places, costs, timetables, directives.
guaranteed
maybe bigger than that
possibly that we are funding iraq/ setting up a good clean situation, straightening out their situation for the Iranians to assume
and add in that little russian involvement
Did the U.S. just provoke Iran?
The Senators are making stupid statements....see Biden comment at post #2 :
What the hell?
I had an interesting chat with a liberal today. Her talking points included muslims are violent and drill each other in the head with power tools so what would they want with democracy.
So you believe like the demoweenies that if we leave there are no consequences?
For us?
There will be adverse consequences no matter what we do. We're in a bad situation and there's very little we can do to make it better. The only silver lining in all this is that it showed the stupidity of the neocon plan of democratizing the Middle East. Hopefully we won't engage in another fool's errand like that again.
As to whether we should leave, I don't know enough to say. I'm inclined to that position, but I am not certain of it. Obviously, there will be bad consequences to leaving, but I have yet to see anyone make a reasoned argument as to why we are any better of staying.
With my limited knowledge, it seems to me that withdrawal would result in a full blown Sunni-Shia civil war, with possibly Iran and Saudi Arabia getting involved. I don't see why leaving your enemies to fight each other is such a bad thing. Of course, withdrawal would have other bad consequences, such as a loss of prestige and a propaganda victory for the Jihadists, but it seems to me that staying can only postpone it.
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