Iraq must either make friends w/ Iran, or be prepared to go to war with them, or both.
Iran is behind a great deal of mischief in Iraq, and it would be nice if they agreed to stop it.
While I’m not claiming pure motives, Nixon did go to China, so one can meet their enemy and come away w/ good things.
Iran is ripping Iraq apart at its cultural fault lines. Meanwhile we have "Joe Biden" federalists in the U.S. who are foolishly encouraging the Balkanization of Iraq. All one needs to do is look to the national unity that occurred after the Iraqi Soccer team won the Asian Cup. Iraq is fully capable of standing on its own legs, without Iranian interference. If left unchecked, Iran will terrorize the Kurds and Sunnis, pushing them out of Iraq. Mark my words, the Iranians will take the region to war. The only way to make Iraq a friend of Iran is for a great many Iraqis to move out. If U.S. policy in Iraq is anything other than to abandon that beautiful infant nation - I think we should encourage a United Nations delegation to go to Tehran with a gun and demand all of their olive branches. When they offer none, because they have none, what should we do?