Forecast: Iraq 2009


	Forecast: Iraq 2009

LorisKnight

9-30-2007 10:37 AM

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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/e4dd8870-4298-49a5-9e92-0e7a8cadf277/91FF02EB-85CA-4C40-B8F8-98332589379B/" 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://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/09/surge-politics-.html" href="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/09/surge-politics-.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/09/surge-politics-.html"><P><IMG border="0" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/28/petraeus_thumbs_up.jpg" title="Petraeus_thumbs_up" alt="Petraeus_thumbs_up" />According to the Bush <A href="http://www.backwardsbush.com/">countdown</A> clock, there are now 477 some odd left in the
administration. It is a safe assumption that there will still be a hundred
thousand <DEL>coalition</DEL> American troops in Iraq 478 days from now. </P></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://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/09/surge-politics-.html"><P>So what will the landscape look like
for the next administration and what decisions will it that landscape force? </P></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://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/09/surge-politics-.html"><P>First, there is another “surge” at
work in the region — a surge in regional defense spending as a hedge against
instability and the rise of Iran, both consequences of the war in Iraq. </P></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://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/09/surge-politics-.html"><P>The US recently <A href="http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL17375627">gave</A> Jordan
$78 million in defense aid, and other countries are <A href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6924273.stm">purchasing</A>
$63 billion in arms. So, if the war in Iraq is paving the way for a
stable, democratic Middle East where things get a little better every day, why
is everyone going on an arms buying binge? And why is the US the architect
of the deal? </P></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/91FF02EB-85CA-4C40-B8F8-98332589379B/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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