You can not have it both ways Mr. President

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You can not have it both ways Mr. President.

George W Bush is working hard nowadays to isolate Iran and curtail it’s nuclear ambitions. Not only the US who is concerned about the Iranian intentions and the Iranian interference in the internal affairs of neighboring countries, especially Iraq , Lebanon and some other Gulf countries, but also many Arab countries are worried about the Iranian nuclear development and their intentions to spread their revolution and destabilize the region.

Iran owes it’s recent growth in power and ability to interfere and ability to be heard around the world and become a major player in world politics and affairs, to the US and in particular to president George W Bush himself. Without the actions of Mr. Bush, Iran would have stayed a weaker country confused between spreading the revolution and joining the world community and abandoning their efforts to destabilize other countries in the region. The fall of Saddam opened the gates of heaven for Iran.

The war to topple Saddam and his regime was a 100% Iranian war fought for them by Bush and his generals and army. It is a dream come true for the ayatollahs in Iran when Saddam fell and Iran became a much bigger country ruling ( indirectly ) over one-half of Iraq and the Shiites two third of it’s population. Not only that but also another dream come true and the Shiite crescent ( Iran, Iraq. Syria and Hezbollah ) became linked and Iran became a middeterian sea country reaching South Lebanon.

Any simple analysis before the war on Iraq, should have weighed both the loss and gain of toppling a dictator like Saddam. No matter how beneficial getting rid of Saddam for the Iraqi people and the region, the strengthening of Iran and giving it a link to Syria and Hezbollah, by toppling a Sunni regime which separated them, was a far more dangerous risk.  It puzzles me why the Bush administration didn’t see this risk which would have meant rehabilitating Saddam regime was probably a better choice than toppling it, despite being a ruthless dictator with threatening his own people and the region.

Now Bush is here advising us about the Iranian danger and the need to contain that, but isn’t he who opened the gates of heaven for Iran and gave it all the reasons to be stronger, bigger and more influential ?

Riyadh