the neo cons bribed Iran and Iran took it - who knew

[ensho]

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JJ28Dj07.html


The world isn't flat, it's flattened


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The low level of violence in Iraq during the past several months owes something to the skill of American arms in the so-called "surge", but it owes even more to a tacit agreement between Iran and the George W Bush administration: in return for leashing its irregular forces in Iraq, Iran would get a free hand with Hezbollah in Lebanon, and American forbearance with respect to its nuclear weapons program.

The Bush administration's motive to bribe Iran and avoid political damage in Iraq disappears on US presidential election day on November 4. Whether the US administration (or for that matter Israel) has the nerve to launch an air strike on Iran's nuclear facilities is anyone's guess (and everyone is guessing that the answer is negative). Nonetheless, Iran has created the strongest Shi'ite presence since the original battles that determined the succession to the Prophet Mohammed. It can watch the Shi'ite cause fade away with the price of oil, or it can attempt to use its capabilities before they are lost for another thousand years. Nothing at all that we know of the Iranians indicates that they would go quietly into another long night of Sunni oppression.

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(this thread isn't about the economy but about the bribe)


I thought the neo cons didn't talk to 'evil' countries. well, I guess they don't 'talk' they 'bribe'

[snappyturtle]

1. So does this mean it's possible that all hell will break loose

on November 5th after Sen.Obama is officially the president elect? Great. :sarcasm: Nice going *.

[barbtries]

2. i don't think so.

iran doesn't want to be nuked any more than we do.

[snappyturtle]

5. Basically I think you're right. However, that dead period between the

election and the inauguration scares me. I doubt the U.S. would attack Iran but I can see that the U.S. might give the blessing to Israel to do so. In any case, the results would not be good.

[Omnibus]

8. Bush won't have time to attack Iran.

I think he and Cheney will be too busy shredding papers, erasing hard drives, and prepping the compound in Paraguay.

[snappyturtle]

10. heehee Thanks for the laugh! nt

[gordianot]

3. Not the first deal Republicans have made a deal with Iran during an election.

Iran needs a long term enemy the same as Republicans needs a permanent threat.

[snappyturtle]

4. I went back to the link to extract this troubling paragraph:

"Iran's ultimate target will be Saudi Arabia, whose largest oil fields are found inconveniently in Shi'ite-majority areas just across the Persian Gulf from Iran. The Saudis will not sit quietly while Iran gains the upper hand in Iraq. Pakistan and Turkey, Sunni powers with large armies, will be loath to allow Iran to dominate the region, and they also will be all the more dependent on Saudi generosity."

[medeak]

6. this is the most depressing article

thanks a lot....not sleeping as it is

[ensho]

7. know what you mean - sleepless nights

but we have to know what's going on. whether it gives us a headache or not.

[BunkerHill24]

9. This explains why we aren't hearing war drums on Iran lately....

K&R