FLASHBACK: SEPTEMBER...2002.

Editor's Note:

In no way is the following an anti-Iranian commentary. Why? Without Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah, the Arabs would've been totally screwed. Ask Abu Mazin. The harmful idiots and their Israeli counterparts had treated him as they would a cockcroach. Now he's at the White House, courtesy of Hezbollah's warriors. A country later, 100,000 dead, nearly 2700 U.S. troops dead, thousands maimed, and thousands orphaned...All to avoid a Palestinian state!
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Here's some of what this blog had posted in September 2002, when we all were four years younger:

Saudi Arabia, of course, cannot offer military assistance [to Iraq]. The most it can do is to persuade its ally, the United States, to ease up. To that end, it can point out that the invasion [of Iraq] could very well result in the rise of Iraq’s Shia majority, resulting in an Iraq that is totally allied to anti-American Iran. It can also remind the United States that it has become the most hated country in the Arab World and the Kingdom thanks to its alliance to Israel and its anti-Iraq campaign. At an extreme, its policies threaten the very survival of the current pro-American Saudi government.

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Should Iran prove reluctant to accept the invitation [for a mutual defense treaty with Baathist Iraq], the Iraqi Republican Guard and Special Forces should unleash against the Shias and a civil war will erupt, forcing Iran into the fray, and throwing to the wind American warnings against Iranian intervention. Iran can do it a la Syrian model in Lebanon. [Syria did it slowly] (...) In the end [Iran will] establish itself as the main power broker in Iraqi politics, a la Syria-Lebanon model.


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Turkey will be forced to come in from the north, allegedly to protect the Turkmen minority in Iraq–and quell (as viciously as can be imagined) the Kurdish de facto state in the north. American troops in Saudi Arabia will become an integral part of the Kingdom’s life since Iran would’ve become a more formidable rival, having laid its hands on yet more oil resources.

Egyptian troops could be expected in the Kingdom to quell popular uprisings.