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If the effect of democratizing Iraq is the funneling of terrorist resources into Iraq, then I prefer Iraq as a battlefield to Manhattan or Seattle.

I suspect that Russians feel relieved seeing that all those Islamist whackos can go to Iraq instead of Chechnya.

Sure. They've seen a pretty pronounced drop off since Iraq. I saw posted here on FR today about capturing 12 Iranian intelligence agents in Baghdad.

This is another situation where one country has declared war on us, and we just sort of choose to ignore it for now. You here in the press that one of the main problems facing us in Iraq is the insurgence of foreign terrorist groups. That's not a correct characterization after today's arrest, is it?

Foreign intelligence agents active in Iraq means formal support by Iran of the Hussein regime, and if not the Hussein regime, then support for the general destabilization of Iraq.

I wouldn't put it past Iran to invade Iraq if we pulled out of there. Turkey might come in from the North. All of this in the name of 'stabilization' in the wake of us leaving Iraq.