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One thing that would make it difficult for Iran to intervene is they do not share a land border with Syria.

[Steven Tyler]

....unless they enter Syria via Iraq

[FreeAtlanta]

The main reason Iraq was so critical. I argued this with my leftist associates for hours and hours.

Iraq was the linchpin or hub that needed to be controlled to control Middle Eastern terrorism, but they wouldn't hear anything of the sort. They just hated Bush and it was a tool to bash him.