NYT this morning
U.S. and Israelis Are Said to Talk of Hamas Ouster (hey, it's only a week or two since they were elected in the vote the US pushed for keeping on schedule)
Egypt Pushes 2-Year Delay in Local Vote
WSJ today:
Iran Plays Growing Role in Iraq,
Complicating Bush's Strategy
Daily Life Could Give It
Leverage in Nuclear Debate
February 14, 2006; Page A1
Bush administration officials who promoted war with Iraq envisioned Americans reshaping the country in their own image after the war. Instead, the reshaping is increasingly being carried out by Iran -- the same nation that has provoked a diplomatic furor over its nuclear ambitions.
Iran's influence is most apparent in Iraqi politics, where a Shiite-dominated coalition has just nominated a prime minister with close ties to Tehran, but it also emerges in many areas of Iraqi life that get less notice....
Still, Iran's influence in Iraq today runs counter to the scenario many Bush administration strategists presented in the months heading into the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. At the time, policy makers saw a democratic Iraq as a base for promoting Western-style democracy in neighboring countries such as Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia. Some advocates of the war said a post-Saddam Iraq also would provide a military platform to pressure Iran to drop its nuclear program.
Bush administration strategists dead wrong on something related to Iraq....that couldn't be true, could it ?
That rush to democracy stuff wasn't such a great idea anyway.
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