...and toughness with Obama's inexperience and alleged weakness. McCain wanted to "win" the Iraq war and face down the Iranians. But those issues became moot when the Iraqis said they favored Obama's withdrawal plan and the Bush Administration started talking to the Iranians. At that point, McCain committed his original sin -- out of pique, I believe -- questioning Obama's patriotism, ...

... all, this has zippo to do with my ancestry and everythiing to do with the fact that I actually have been to that region of the world and know a fair amount about it. Conversely, most Americans think Iranians and Turks are Arabs because we're a nation that's largely ignorant on many fronts. You left out the Kurds, which is beside the point. Shortly after 9/11 some nut jobs attacked a Sheikh store owner because ...

...'s oil supply? | | First of all, this has zippo to do with my ancestry and everythiing to | do with the fact that I actually have been to that region of the world | and know a fair amount about it. Conversely, most Americans think | Iranians and Turks are Arabs because we're a nation that's largely | ignorant on many fronts. Honestly, I was told that my entire life | growing up in TN. Ohhh, you're an Aaa-rab. This is why I have the | ...

... an Iraqi reformist, Dr. Abd Al-Khaleq Hussein, explained that the Iranian and Syrian regimes are fascist in the true sense of the word,... they exist. Dr. Hussein said, "Some believe that describing the Iranian Islamic regime and the Baath Party's Syrian regime as fascist is ...as Fascist or Nazi is discrimination among human beings ... Since both the Iranian and Syrian regimes discriminate among the various groups within their peoples on...

... would improve Israel's standoff fire capabilities. "The bomb is extremely accurate," he said. "All you have to do is punch in the coordinates, fire and forget." He said they could be used to attack Iranian underground facilities like Natanz but that they could only penetrate a few meters. "Hundreds of these would have to be used in an attack on Natanz for it to be successful," Shapir said. Source: Morning Intel News...

... world and would improve Israel's standoff fire capabilities. "The bomb is extremely accurate," he said. "All you have to do is punch in the coordinates, fire and forget." He said they could be used to attack Iranian underground facilities like Natanz but that they could only penetrate a few meters. "Hundreds of these would have to be used in an attack on Natanz for it to be successful," Shapir said. Source: Morning Intel News Brief...

...spent long years of exile in Syria and his most important ally in Iraq is the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq which was founded on Iran's initiative in Tehran in 1982. They will be used to Syrian and Iranian security monitoring their activities. Overall, the extent of U.S. surveillance of its Shia and Kurdish allies in Iraq reveals a deep anxiety in Washington that in supporting a government in Baghdad dominated by Shia Islamic parties it...

... needs of unsophisticated Iraqi customers. Iranian goods even rival those from ... sides can travel without restrictions. Iranian air conditioners and coolers are ... middle class. For example, an Iranian-made small power generator could ...it was wrong to say Iranian goods were all of a...the country. Taleb Mohammed said Iranian industrialists seem to have properly...and southern parts of Iraq. Iranian contractors are involved in infrastructure...

... put it, dealing with other ne'er-do-wells would become simple: "We could deliver a short message, a two-word message: 'You're next.'" Faced with the prospect of sharing Saddam's fate, Syrians, Iranians, Sudanese, and other recalcitrant regimes would see submission as the wiser course -- so Perle and others believed. Members of the administration tried to imbue this strategic vision with a softer ideological gloss. "For 60 years," ...

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