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Old 04-04-2008, 10:18 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by hiredgun
As I pointed out before, Iran has as much or more influence with Maliki and Dawa as it has with Sadr. Iran being a big winner is not a potential; it has happened, that ship has sailed.
True....Iran has long ties to most of the Shia political parties....but I would suggest that the Sadirist block in the Iraqi parliament are the more fundamentalists.

Iran became the big winner in the region on the day we removed its greatest neutralizing force....Saddam, the secularist.
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