Sadr-Bush Breakthrough on Iran

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The Jordan Summit did achieve a breakthrough in containment policy against Iran. Muqtada al-Sadr, who is the most powerful leader in Iraq, and President Bush have put Iran on notice that further Iranian meddling in Iraq's internal affairs will not be tolerated. Moreover, in a strong rebuke to Iran, who wants to partition Iraq by promoting civil war, they voiced long overdue and definitive support for Iraq's territorial integrity and for Iraq's identity as a multi-ethnic state. With these joint Iraq-US policies, Sadr and Bush have taken a giant a step toward preserving stability in Iraq and the region.

The first Sadr-Bush initiative is that Iraq will remain at the center of US Middle East policy and will not be used as a bargaining chip, along with Palestine and Lebanon, as part of a pro-Iranian comprehensive settlement of all Middle East problems, now recommended by the Baker Commission. With this Iraq-first approach, President Bush has pre-empted the Baker Commission report and protected the powers of his presidency from Bakers foreign policy and pro-Iran usurpation.

The second Sadr-Bush initiative is the bold joint commitment to a centralized Iraqi state. As Prime Minister Maliki emphasized in the Jordan Summit press conference, he and President Bush oppose turning Iraq into a collection of "semi-autonomous states." Both leaders made clear that preventing a breakup of Iraq is now Iraq's top national security priority if an increase in sectarian conflict leading to full scale civil war in Iraq is to be avoided.

The new Sadr-Bush policy on preserving Iraq's centralized system is clearly a step away even from full autonomy for Iraqi states, which is permitted under Iraq's existing constitution. In other words, Sadr-Maliki and Bush, in a stunning reversal of existing US policy, are now for a unified, centralized and multi-ethnic Iraq. This Sadr-Bush anti-Iraq confederacy initiative represents a decisive repudiation of Iran's drive to partition Iraq via the SCIRI party and its leader Abdul-Azziz al-Hakim, assisted by US Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad.

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_19227.shtml
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I am reading this article and wondering if the writer is either knows something I don't or is insane?

[Drum]

1. I'm kinda tired, but I still have a tough time buying that scenario...

That sounds more like a ficional painting than the real deal, but like I said...:shrug:

[whathappened]

2. you ars so right on there

this is bush talking to himself with the shadowman in iraq just standing there moveing his head up and down

[madrchsod]

3. scott sullivan

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/19359.html
Deprive Iran of North Korea by Scott Sullivan

http://www.petroleumworld.com/issues082806.htm
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"Scott Sullivan is a former Washington government employee"