In a continuing reminder of the failure of the Bush invasion and occupation of Iraq, we see that one side-effect is that we now have an Iraqi leadership increasingly friendly with the Saddam (and U.S.) enemy Iran. How peachy are things between the two countries? Quite peachy, in quite a contrast with our situation:
Pomp and ceremony greeted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his arrival in Iraq on Sunday, the fanfare a stark contrast to the rushed and secretive visits of his bitter rival U.S. President George W. Bush. Ahmadinejad held hands with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani as they walked down a red carpet to the tune of their countries' national anthems, his visit the first by an Iranian president since the two neighbours fought a ruinous war in the 1980s. His warm reception, in which he was hugged and kissed by Iraqi officials and presented with flowers by children, was Iraq's first full state welcome for any leader since the U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein in 2003.
I am actually not so sure this is a bad thing, however. If both the U.S. and Iran are allies with Iraq, that becomes a common denominator between our two countries, and might lead to a diplomatic detente with a new U.S. president. Maybe.
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The governments of Iran and America are already allies. Get wise to the fact that they pretend to be enemies to up oil prices. The comments from Ahmadinejad - a leader of a weak country that the US could defeat in 3 weeks - are a little too contrived and obvious to be real. Iran and the US were always allies so why should that have stopped. Plus, Iran - unlike say Cuba - did not join the communist Soviet in 1979 either! And if the US wanted them gone, the clerical Islamocommunist systenm would be gone in the early 1980s. It was allowed to exist because the US wants it to!
It is the people of the US and Iran who are the victims though. Their politicians have sold them out and continue to play this game. Iranian and American people don't mean a thing to the Iranian/US government arrangement. Iran is still treated like a giant petrol station and the US people continue to pay dear prices because the tension between both countries rises the prices.
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