Reply #28: Thank You For The Explanation And Setting Me Straight......

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I guess it helps to know who is on who's side. I got the impression from watching MSM that the U.S. is backing al-Maliki against al-Sadr because he is the one that is holding us up. Cease-fire!!! Call off the cease-fire!!! Sounds to me that he is holding us hostage.

But now it makes sense. *Co wants to keep us in Iraq. Al-Sadr wants us out. So that is why MSM makes al-Sadr out to be the bad guy and why *Co is backing al-Maliki. Right?

And *Co ultimately wants to take out Iran - so therefore - "by supporting al-Maliki we're strengthening Iran's influence in Iraq."

And *Co doesn't want al-Sadr to win in the upcoming elections in the fall because he'll demand that the US troops start leaving Iraq.

So we've come to sort of a stalemate here. Keep these two factions at odds and *Co keeps the status quo in Iraq. Iran then buys more centrifuges to ultimately go nuclear. *Co then has a strategic position in Iraq to take out Iran - and the whole of the ME blows up anyway.

It all makes perfect sense now.

Thank you George W. Bush. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. (sarcasm)