[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Meanwhile in Tehran we have this:

BBC: Iran hardliners condemn Khatami - ( dispute over "exporting the revolution")

[DJ Elliott]

“the head of the Dulaim tribe,”

You might want to look up the history of this one and grade the statements accordingly...

[kinghorse]

There you go. You take out the “professional” class first, then use them to defeat the indigenous cretins. This is a carbon copy of the Philippines 1900.

[veracious]

Perfect: Iranian occupation.

[Ptarmigan]

The Arab vs. Persian thing is back again. Arabs rarely get along with Persians. I have a lot of Arab and Persian friends and they rarely hang out with each other. Iran is right next to Iraq. Iraq would be a lot worried about Iranian occupation. During the Persian Empire, Iraq was the center of the empire. American troops are going to be seeing the Arab vs. Persian up close and in person.

[SuziQ]

An Iraqi Sunni delegation on a visit to Cairo on Wednesday urged Arab countries to act against what it called the "Iranian occupation" of Iraq.

Ironic, isn't it, when the rest of the world is all upset about the 'American' occupation of Iraq. The Iraqis understand what the rest of the world doesn't. We don't intend to stay there and run the country. We're there now, helping to provide security so that the Iraqis can get into the swing of running it themselves. They haven't had to do that in over 30 years, because Sadaam had such a stranglehold on everything, so they're having to take some time to learn.