Iraqi PM Al-Maliki started an official visit to Iran yesterday:
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Al-Malikisaid Iran was an important and friendly country for Iraq, adding the two sides face bright horizons for expansion of bilateral cooperation in the future. He assessed as fruitful his visit to Tehran, saying it was a turning point in ties between the two sides.
Pointing to good ties between Tehran and Baghdad, Iran President Ahmadinejad termed his talks with the Iraqi premier as "very good", saying, "The two sides share common stance on regional and international issues. Both sides are determined to consolidate brotherly ties."
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Ace....So what we have done through our invasion and your so-called "foothold" is to make Iraq another puppet state of the fundies in Iran, along with Syria, and to a lesser extent, Lebanon, through control of Hezballah.
Sound strategic thinking.........
If your strategic goal was to increase Iran's influence and power in the region.
BTW, Al-Maliki is the number two man in the Dawa Party:
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The Islamic Dawa Party or Islamic Call Party (Arabic حزب الدعوة الإسلامية Hizb al-Da'wa al-Islamiyya) is, historically, a militant Shiite Islamic group and, presently, an Iraqi political party. Dawa and the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq are two of the main parties in the religious-Shiite United Iraqi Alliance, which won a plurality of seats in both the provisional January 2005 Iraqi election and the longer-term December 2005 election.
The political ideology of al-Da'wa is heavily influenced by work done by Baqr al-Sadr who laid out four mandatory principles of governance in his 1975 work, Islamic Political System. These were:
1. Absolute sovereignty belongs to God.
2. Islamic injunctions are the basis of legislation. The legislative authority may enact any law not repugnant to Islam.
3. The people, as vice-regents of Allah, are entrusted with legislative and executive powers.
4. The jurist holding religious authority represents Islam. By confirming legislative and executive actions, he gives them legality."
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Ace...do you believe having Dawa and SCIRI in control in Iraq is good for the political stability and long term future of the region, and subsequently, the US?