Foreign Correspondence

[Amaunet]

Why would Bush side with the Shias in Iraq and draw up war plans that entail quickly seizing Iran's southwestern Khuzestan Province, where most of Iran's oil reserves and refineries are located? Khuzestan has a majority Shia Arab population that has close links with their ethnic and religious brethren in Iraq.

Bush is supposedly siding with the Shias in Iraq and going to war with their close brethren, the Shias in Iran.

Bush may have plans to significantly diminish the clout of the Shias in the entire region in which case the constitution will be changed back to reflect a more secular Iraq.

This plan would be a countermove to Iran’s:

While America has been so dangerously and wastefully tied down in Iraq, Iran has been moving to form the diplomatic, political and military imprint of a kind of "Shiite Internationale" among the region's Shia populations.

This would take in all the followers of the Shia sect of Islam, from the 60 percent of Iraq, to the oil-rich eastern regions of Saudi Arabia, to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrilla/political control of Lebanon.
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Just speculating…

-Am

Reference:
US concessions to Islamists on the role of religion in Iraqi law marked a turn in talks on a constitution, negotiators said on Saturday, as they raced to meet a 48-hour deadline under intense US pressure to clinch a deal.

US diplomats, who have insisted the constitution must enshrine ideals of equal rights and democracy, declined comment. Shia, Sunni and Kurdish negotiators all said there was accord on a bigger role for Islamic law than Iraq had before. But a secular Kurdish politician said Kurds opposed making Islam not ‘a’ but ‘the’ main source of law - a reversal of interim legal arrangements – and subjecting all legislation to a religious test.

“We understand the Americans have sided with the Shias,” he said. “It’s shocking. It doesn’t fit American values. They have spent so much blood and money here, only to back the creation of an Islamist state. I can’t believe that’s what the Americans really want or what the American people want.”
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_21-8-2005_pg7_42


August 10, 2005 -- U.S. prepared to grab Iran's southwestern majority Arab and oil-rich province after saturation bombing of Iranian nuclear, chemical, and command, control, communications & intelligence (C3I) targets. According to sources within the German Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst - BND), the Bush administration has drawn up plans to hit Iran's nuclear, other WMD, and military sites with heavy saturation bombing using bunker buster bombs and tactical nuclear weapons.


The Bush war plans for Iran also entail quickly seizing Iran's southwestern Khuzestan Province, where most of Iran's oil reserves and refineries are located. Khuzestan has a majority Shia Arab population that has close links with their ethnic and religious brethren in Iraq.
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