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  • Monday, May 14, 2007 08:18 AM

    Then blame the Iraqi government and bail

    Here is how to end the war so we win. First, get Iran involved in protecting the Shiites. What? Crazy you say? No. The Saudis fear Iran more than Allah, and pay numerous Sunni Jihadist to sabotage Shia movements all across the middle east. Use our frustration to divest ourselves from the Shia dominated Iraqi government. Next, leave. Let the Shia take their revenge on the Sunni, but make sure Iran's name gets tied to it. Declare this a tragedy, then use it as a justification to sell more tanks to Saudi Arabia. Secretly funnel more money into Saudi Jihadist fronts that want revenge on the hated Shia, as we are already doing.

    What does this all accomplish? Destabilizing Muslim unity. It is Bin Laden's dream to use us as a shared enemy to unite the fragmented Muslim world. When we invaded Iraq, we handed that to him on a silver platter. We cannot allow this to continue. A genocide in Iraq that has Farsi letters all over it could pull a strategic victory from the jaws of defeat.

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