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...impact on the relations of the Arab countries with the U.S. will undoubtedly cause change," he added. "Motives are questioned, there's much speculation about the intent of the occupation...
...Shiites did not join in. Thanks to the toppling of the Baghdad regime, Iraq's Shiites have a real chance to grab meaningful political power in their country for the first time. That poses a dangerous challenge for Washington's plans to stay in Iraq and fashion an Arab democracy. The banners and chants of the protesters did not speak for all Shiites, but they surely counted for something significant...
...troops in Iraq would not stir up religious passions as they had in Saudi Arabia, Osama bin Laden's homeland, during Gulf War I. "The Iraqi population is completely different," Wolfowitz told National Public Radio on February 19. "The Iraqis are among the most educated people in the Arab world. They are by and large quite secular. They are overwhelmingly Shiite, which is different from the Wahabbis of the Peninsula. They don't bring the sensitivity of having the holy cities of Islam on their territory...
...State Department "Arabists" have long been a favorite target of Washington neoconservatives, precisely because their support for the hawkish Likud line in Israeli politics makes them hostile to any effort in Washington to balance U.S. foreign policy between support for Israel and recognition of Arab interests. Gingrich and his pals in and around the Pentagon, like Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and Paul Wolfowitz want to turn Iraq over to Ahmad Chalabi, the exiled banker (or swindler, according to the Jordanian courts) whom they have cultivated in their own image as a leader that would toe the U.S. line and embrace...
...Iran-based Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, is considering working with the U.S. In an interview with Reuters, the group's leader Ayatollah Mohammed Bakr al-Hakim said his group would be willing to work with the U.S., along with the UN, European Union and Arab and Islamic states, to stabilize Iraq. He also spoke against replicating the Iranian political model, instead advocating a separation of church and state. But like most other Shiite leaders, Hakim emphasized the need for Iraqi control of the process of selecting a democratic government...