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My comment on the PalmBeach Post editorial about the Baker report:
"The Post and Baker et al have already pretty much taken away any sticks the administration could use" says Rick. This administration has used nothing but "sticks" for more than 3 years. Rick using the word "play" reminds of the British Empire long ago calling their attempt to control the world, "the Great Game". Churchill used poison gas to control the rebellious tribes. Now our embassy is bigger than a palace, and we are building 14 military bases in Iraq for our empire? The Post points out the Iraqi Constitution calls for 3 autonomous states. Joe Biden said it looked like the Kurds are now seriously considerng a sharing-the-oil-agreement, because they think we are getting out soon.
Biden thought the Kurdish president not insisting on the de-Arabization of Tikrit in his comments on Baker's report, was a good sign too. If Iraqis know we are going to leave, they will have to solve their problems themselves. As I type this, Joe Biden is on C-Span explaining the Kurdish problem, as to why Iran, Turkey, and Syria, would want to help establish peace in Iraq. It is in their own self interest to prevent the major war that would result if Kurds in Iraq, Turkey, and Iran would establish a new country of their own. Answering a question about Lebanon, he pointed out that us and others never followed thru on financial committments to train a Lebanese arrmy; $22 million total to Iran's $400 million to Hezbollah, he said. And us calling Iran "evil" , when we financed, and again, learned from the Brits how to do a coup, and install a Monarch, the Shah, is just plain wrong. Especially when that Shah tortured, imprisoned and killed his own people for 24 years. Our CIA had a big station there that whole 24 years, and didn't know a Revolution was coming. (They didn't speak Farsi?) And did the first Bush give a "green light" to Saddam to attack Iran? Did we give intell, and sell weapons to both sides, to keep them fighting for 8 years? Look up Ollie on the web, selling Israeli missiles to the Ayatollah to get money for the Contras, because Congress had cut off funds for that other great threat to the U.S, Nicaragua. When do we deal with other nations straight up, face to face, no Secret Services playing games?

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