Iran Pulls the Strings: oil is not well for Cheney


	Iran Pulls the Strings: oil is not well for Cheney

abailart

4-4-2008 3:39 AM

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iraq, iran

abailart says:

Useful analysis of the complex matrix behind the geopolitical war to control Iraq.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fa522c0c-8e9a-4b96-87c3-3e5856d602ea/2CF47E3C-B3AC-4EA2-9A30-B14573B1AB7D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JD03Ak02.html" href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JD03Ak02.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.atimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JD03Ak02.html">The turf war in the Iraqi 
                              Shi'ite regions has several templates. Iraq's 
                              future as a unitary state; the parameters of 
                              acceptable federalism, if any; attitude towards 
                              the US; control of oil wealth; overvaulting 
                              political ambitions - all these are intertwined 
                              features of a complex matrix.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JD03Ak02.html">Tehran would be gratified that in 
                              any case it has made the point that it possesses 
                              awesome influence within Iraq. Anyone who knows 
                              today's anarchic Iraq would realize that 
                              triggering a new spiral of violence in that 
                              country may not require much ingenuity, muscle 
                              power or political clout.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JD03Ak02.html">to be able 
                              to summarily cry halt to cascading violence, and 
                              to achieve that precisely in about 48 hours, well, 
                              that's an altogether impressive capability in 
                              political terms. In this case, the Iranians have 
                              managed it with felicitous ease, as if they were 
                              just turning off a well-lubricated tap. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JD03Ak02.html">Cheney 
                              must be furious that Tehran torpedoed the entire 
                              US strategy for Big Oil.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2CF47E3C-B3AC-4EA2-9A30-B14573B1AB7D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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