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[msmcghee]

Is it possible that Iran's fundamentalist government, to shore up their power and clamp down on modernization, may see a role for itself here in defeating the American infidels in the name of Allah - and thereby becoming the de-facto leader of the ME Islamic world - the role that we kept from them by supporting Saddam Hussein in the 80's?

The US military is now tied down in a hopeless struggle in Iraq - that is now morphing into the civil war that I (and many others) predicted several months ago. Iran supports the Shias who are successfuly resisting the US and Iraqi police forces in Najaf right now.

There will be no better time for them to assert their will and assure victory for a greater fundamentalist Iran that could well include all of present day Iraq.

Here's just one possible scenario:

They could announce that they do not have any nuclear weapons but they have learned through their intelligence service that due to Pakistani scientist Khan's efforts over the last decade and al Queda operations there are now six nuclear warheads positioned in major US port cities.

They will say that they will negotiate with the terrorists to disarm the bombs - but that the terrorists' say that their demand that the US withdraw all troops from the middle east is not negotiable.

The threat doesn't even have to be true. If the bombs don't go off, they can claim that their level-headed diplomacy saved the world from disaster. No-one will ever be able to prove that the bombs did not exist. (You can't prove a negative.)

If Bush* caves and agrees to withdraw troops, of course, they still become heroes to all the Islamic world and the US is further disgraced for negotiating with terrorists.

If Bush* refuses to negotiate the US will become bedlam in 24 hours. Marshall law will be declared, the elections will be canceled and our economy would suffer irreparable damage as millions of Americans leave our major population centers.

How's that for an October surprise?