Good analysis;; Iraq will be ruled by Radical Shi ites thanks to the USA

[Mari333]

We created a new Iran in Iraq....and we all knew this would happen didnt we...(we were a focus group...)


If you had asked an intelligence analyst two years ago to describe the worst possible political outcome following an American invasion of Iraq, he might well have answered that it would be a regime dominated by conservative Shiite Muslim clerics with links to neighboring Iran. But just such a regime now seems likely to emerge after Iraq's Jan. 30 election.

Iran is about to hit the jackpot in Iraq, wagering the blood and treasure of the United States. This week, an alliance of Iraqi Shiite leaders announced that its list of candidates will be headed by Abdul Aziz Hakim, the clerical leader of the Iranian-backed Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. This Shiite list, backed by Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, is likely to be the favorite of Iraq's 60 percent Shiite majority and win the largest share of votes next month.

Wary of trusting Iraqi Shiites to manage the campaign, the Iranian intelligence service has been pumping millions of dollars and hundreds of operatives into the country. They have also recruited assassination squads to kill potential Iraqi rivals, according to several Iraqi officials. One Iraqi Shiite tells me the Iranians view the hit teams as a kind of "insurance policy'' to make sure they prevail, even if the American-backed election process should fail.



http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=11101

[Straight Shooter]

1. This was a no-brainer from the beginning, why couldn't people see it?

Oh. Wait. Nevermind.

[rodeodance]

2. might Bush conjur up a plan to delay the elections???

[Mari333]

3. Oh no, he adamantly insists on having them

perhaps they have something up their proverbial sleeve..if they can tamper with the election results here in the USA, it will be easy as pie for them to do it there..and they might be dumb enough to do that..if they do, more civil war..the Iraqi people arent as stupid as the US public..they know a puppet govt when they see one..

[Old and In the Way]

4. Too bad this administration didn't read DU.

During the run-up to the invasion, we had lots of threads with posters predicting exactly this. What the idiots in charge have done is to clear the roadblocks to a pan-Islamic Middle East caliphate. That's what happens when you have selected pResidents whose only priority is protecting oil profits at the expense of our national interests.