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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blog.newsweek.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Avoiding Ahmadinejad</title><link>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/checkpointbaghdad/archive/2008/02/26/avoiding-ahmadinejad.aspx</link><description>Atta Kenare / AFP-Getty Images From Tehran to Baghdad: Ahmadinejad will visit the Iraqi capital in March So far U.S. officials say they won't be attending any events during Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's planned visit to Baghdad March 2. And the Iranian president</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Debug Build: 2.18)</generator><item><title>re: Avoiding Ahmadinejad</title><link>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/checkpointbaghdad/archive/2008/02/26/avoiding-ahmadinejad.aspx#208619</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:14:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:208619</guid><dc:creator>Chapalody</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;If it worked in Lebanon, it can work in Iraq. Only this time Ahmadinejad won't be sending the terrorist group Hezbollah. Ahmadinejad is going to think of a new terrorist group to occupy Iraq. First he's going to send in millions and millions of dollars to finance the poor in Iraq, the same approach they used in Lebanon. Next, Ahmadinejad is going to demand unelected seats in the new Iraq, the same thing they did in Lebanon. Ahmadinejad is going to use Iraq, the same way Hezbollah use Lebanon to attack Israel. When the money starts rolling in from Iran to Iraq it's over for the new Iraq. You control the economy, you control the nation. Hezbollah is so embedded in the every day lives of the government and average person, they are now fighting the police and the military without any administrative authority other then threats to kill. Ahmadinejad knows all too well what this visit means to Iran.&lt;/p&gt;
</description><category>Blog: Checkpoint Baghdad</category></item><item><title>re: Avoiding Ahmadinejad</title><link>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/checkpointbaghdad/archive/2008/02/26/avoiding-ahmadinejad.aspx#208655</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:14:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:208655</guid><dc:creator>eddiewhere</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;TO EZTEL. how can you state ARAB/ ISRAELI RELATIONS DO NOT DICTATE OUR foreign pOLICy IN THE MIDDLE EAST.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;OBAMA IS JUST encouraging COMMUNITy BASED GROUpS FROM BOTH SIDES to sit down and begin a dialouge.. SOMETHING LIKE AN NGO type ORGANIZATION. WHERE ANyoNE CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THE CAUSE. THESE ORGANIZATIONS WILL INFLUENCE THEIR OWN GOVERNMENTS. &amp;quot;THAT WAy THEy&amp;quot; CAN SOLVE THEIR OWN DISpUTES. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THEy NEED A push in the right direction. BUSH HAS SOFTENED THE ARAB/MUSLIM WORLD Up . THEy WILL WELCOME AND NEW AppROACH. THEy know the consquences of not solving their differences. WAR. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;UNFORTUNATELy THAT IS WHAT THE ESTABLISHMENT ON ON BOTH SIDES WANTS&amp;gt; WAR&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ENCOURAGING OUR ADVERSARIES TO INTERACT WITH EACHOTHER is the best thing FOR AMERICA. ATTACKING SOMEONE yOU KNOW IS MORE DIFFICULT THAN SOMEONE you DO NOT.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;HOW ON EARTH IS ORGANIZING yOUNG pEOLE FOR pEACE a SIGN of WEAKNESS&amp;gt; THAT IS WHAT IRAN FEARS and the establishment on both sides FEAR THE MOST.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;IF THEy DO NOT HAVE AN ENEMy THE pEOpLE WILL TURN ON THEM and ESTABLISH A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT. THESE Ty pES OF GRASS ROOT ORGANIZATIONS CAN influence REFORM FROM WITHIN IRAN. yOU HAVE BEEN INDOCTRINATED and FEEL THERE IS NO SOLUTION. THOSE WHO BENEFIT FROM THESE TENSIONS HAVE SUCCESSFULLy BLOCKED THE advancement of the peace process since ninety four.. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;IT is a two faced relationship because the CLINTON's have close ties with DUBAI. THE ARABS own more than twelve PER CENT of our economy. AND WE ARE heavily IN DEBT TO ARAB Financiers. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;IT IS OBVIOUS THAT voting for the IRAQ WAR has STRENGTHENED IRAN a hundred times over. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;IS THIS IN ISRAEL's BEST INTEREST?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;OBAMA IS very CONCERNED WITH THE RISE OF IRAN AND IS EAGER TO DIFFUSE the situation&amp;gt; Hillary WOULD JUST IGNITE THE FLAMES. WE NEED A NEW Approach. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;TO SOLVE PROBLEMS we must CONFRONT THE SOURCE AND DEFEAT IT&amp;quot;. eddiewhere 2008&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO RUSSIA DELIVERED THE LAST OF IT's NUCLEAR SHIPMENT TO IRAN.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WE SHOULD HAVE STOPPED THAT SHIPMENT by confronting RUSSIA and making it clear that they cannot provide IRAN with nuclear materials. THE ex SOVIET UNION, EASTERN EUROPEAN nations and the five breakaway REPUBLICS in CENTRAL ASIA are the source OF THE WORLD's INSECURE NUCLEAR MATERIALS. BUT WE NEVER GO TO THE SOURCE and CONFRONT IT.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THIS IS WHy WE NEED A CHANGE. THE SOLUTIONS ARE THERE WE ARE JUST FOLLOWING THE INCORRECT Protocol..&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE Israeli/ Palestinian CONFLICT is what dictates political relations in the MIDDLE EAST.. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;OBAMA WILL LEAD an ARAB/ISRAELI MOVEMENT FOR pEACE. AFTER ALL, THEY ARE THE ONE's THAT MUST CONQUER THE OBSTACLES that obstruct the PATH TO PEACE.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WHAT IS BEST FOR AMERICA IS TO GET THESE TWO adversaries in the same room TOGETHER AS &amp;quot;MUCH&amp;quot; AS possible. &lt;/p&gt;
</description><category>Blog: Checkpoint Baghdad</category></item><item><title>re: Avoiding Ahmadinejad</title><link>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/checkpointbaghdad/archive/2008/02/26/avoiding-ahmadinejad.aspx#217175</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:16:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:217175</guid><dc:creator>mamdu</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;For your information,Ahmednejad or the Iraqi authorities NEVER asked the Americans for any logistic support.Anf for further information,not one or two contracts are to be signed.You can start listing them and make sure you publish all the contracts that happen to be signed by the 3rd.of March.&lt;/p&gt;
</description><category>Blog: Checkpoint Baghdad</category></item><item><title>re: Avoiding Ahmadinejad</title><link>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/checkpointbaghdad/archive/2008/02/26/avoiding-ahmadinejad.aspx#217179</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:20:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:217179</guid><dc:creator>mamdu</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;You are biased and disturbed by President Ahmed Nejad's visit to Iraq.Sorry about it by we never expected a better and positive comment from you&lt;/p&gt;
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