Iraq tells Iran "we are desperately in need of help"

[Cocoa]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0611280085nov28,1,5742046,print.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

TEHRAN -- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani arrived Monday for two days of talks with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, admitting that Iraq was "desperately in need of help" to quell escalating insurgent attacks.

Talabani's trip had been delayed for three days because the Baghdad airport was closed in the wake of the bombings in the capital on Thursday.

The visit by Talabani, a Kurd from northern Iraq with long ties to both U.S. officials and Iranian leaders, was described by analysts here as a sign that Iraq's neighbors, who have taken in thousands of refugees since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, are now fearful of chaos spreading across their borders. Syria's President Bashar Assad also was invited by the Iranian president, but officials here cast his attendance as unlikely.

Iran's state-run television broadcast Talabani's arrival and the prospects for cooperation as its lead story. Both presidents were seen sitting in Ahmadinejad's presidential complex and flanked by aides.

"We have no limits in offering our help to our brothers in Iraq, the Iraqi nation and the Iraqi government," Ahmadinejad told the news media. "If there is peace and stability in Iraq, there is peace and stability in Iran, and there would be peace and stability in the region."

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[latebloomer]

1. Is it World War Three yet?

:scared:

[Toots]

3. and there would be peace and stability in the region."

Pretty scary thought I guess...:shrug:

[mom cat]

4. It has been WW III for a long time now. The combined murderous wars

against third world people by the US has taken a horrific toll. The queation is whether we will set off WW III: the war that will end all wars. The war that will end all life on eartn ... except perhaps for the cockroach.

[Amonester]

6. Wrong. Only deep-ocean unicellular organisms may manage

to mute through the next million year.

Cockroaches R allergic to nuclear-winter radioactive snowflakes.

[mom cat]

7. I stand corrected ... looking into the abyss.

[Missy M]

2. Now we have Iraq asking Iran for help and this from someone..

who has ties with both US officials and Iranian leaders. Yet we have Bush and his administration asking for sanctions against Iran and even some war rattling against Iran. How much more convoluted can it get. I can't think of any president who made a bigger mess for our country than Bush. He dug a hole so deep he will never be able to climb out.

[0rganism]

5. probably is the only way Iraq will stabilize

Iran was going to play a big role, one way or another. We knew that from the beginning.

The question is, will King George play along with it, or will he engage in further sabre-rattling idiocy? Not much of a question, really. I fully expect bush to make every diplomatic step as difficult and murder-filled as possible.

[Massachusetts]

8. Georgie boys conundrum

I don't think the chimps brain can take much more of this....its really hard work.

[marmar]

9. They certainly aren't getting it from their occupier....

:think: