On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 12:12:42 -0400, gfretwell wrote:

On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:43:56 -0400, thunder
wrote:

LOL, instead we have the possibility of one Iran, stretching from Tehran
to Beirut. Saddam's removal has left the door open for the Iranians.
Hell, if I was a conspiracy believer, I might think Iran planed all this.
Remember all that bogus intell? Chalabi, et al?

I doubt that area will never be "one" anything. If the Israelis left in
the morning and the rest of the world just sat back and watched, those
people wouild still be killing each other.

That may be, but Iraq, under Saddam, was a check on Iranian influence.
Without that check, you now have the Iranian ****e sphere running from
Tehran, across southern Iraq, all the way to Beirut. Our President,
nitwit that he is, hasn't marginalized Iran, he has made it a far more
powerful, and dangerous player in the area.