Iran's Super State

Yesterday's election in Iraq is being hailed in the dinosaur media as a triumph of the Obama administration's wise policy on withdraw of troops in that troubled, sectarian-violence filled nation. Iraq already had been transformed from rule by the Sunni minority as Saddam Hussein ran the nation under the auspices of the Ba'ath Party which had a few token representatives from other religious communities but clearly excluded and oppressed the Shia majority and trampled over the minority Kurdish population to rule of the Shia after elections held under occupation. The Shia governing forces attempted to systematically exclude Sunni candidates from standing in the election just passed because of alleged ties to the Ba'ath Party in their pasts but the attempt was rebuffed by Iraqi courts. I doubt though there will be anything like proportional representation with Sunnis feeling rightly that they have been deprived of their voice and their rights. This taking against Sunni interests furthers the interests of one nation in particular, the Shia super state of Iran who have now escaped the borders of the former Persia to co-opt their Arab neighbor Iraq- lest we not forget that the Mehdi Army was Iran's proxy as was Hizbullah in Iraq. Iran has now effectively grabbed Lebanon through Hizbullah proxies. Iran's tentacles reach into Gaza under Hamas and into the West Bank. Even parts of South America are infected by agents of Iran. A Shia victory in Iraq elections is nothing America should welcome but fear as it signals the spread of domination by Iran and makes regional war and an extended US troop presence far more likely.