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2008-06-10 Iraq

Iran and Iraq agree to defence pact - Peace in our time

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-06-10 12:29|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 analysis?

Posted by 3dc 2008-06-10 14:18|| 2008-06-10 14:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Iran thinks it can use the defense pact to keep the US off their back while they conduct business as usual.

Posted by Theaper Bonaparte9297 2008-06-10 16:12|| 2008-06-10 16:12|| Front Page Top

#3 This illustrates dangers expressed by the Gulf Sunni majority states. Saddam Hussein's dictatorial power suppressed Shiite power, because he knew they would unite with Iran. Said unity is prescribed in Khomeni's 1971 book on Islamic Government. (Like Mein Kampf, nobody will read it until it is too late). As it stands the SOFA deal between Bush and Maliki will, as it stands, reduce US troops to bodyguards for the Islamofascist parliament. If Maliki has a veto, he will indulge guerrilla war against Sunnis and he will do so with US taxpayer subsidy. Bush accepted a time frame of the end of July, because he took Maliki's savages as good faith partners; they were duplicitous at every stage. With high oil prices, a transient armistice in the 1400 Sunni Shiite civil war, increased reach by the Iranians, Bush indulgence of Shiite hegemony in Baghdad, Maliki believes that he can dictate terms to Bush, who appears happy to have delivered a Pax Shiite. Still Maliki's puppet masters - and he took direct and solemn counsel from Iran's Ayatollahs on the weekend - are even more adamant in calling for the destruction of America and Israel. Americans will add this all up, and start a new game.

Posted by McZoid 2008-06-10 21:15|| 2008-06-10 21:15|| Front Page Top

#4 TOPIX > NEWSMAX - OBAMA'S DEFENSE PLAN WILL LEAVE US VULNERABLE.

Also from TOPIX OP-Ed > THE MUSLIMIZATION OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY. I prefer to ascribe the context/scope of this artic as the contemporary peace wrought by a proper future Islamist beheading.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-10 22:56|| 2008-06-10 22:56|| Front Page Top

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