So, what is Iraq really about??

I've been thinking for a long time about how to make this post short and easy to understand...let's give it a try...

Most people have watched TV, read the news, but never ever studied a map of the Iraq region. So, first a mental image. Iran is 3 times Iraq's size and its western border neighbor. Syria is its eastern boarder neighbor and about 1/2 its size. Jordan shares a small portion of its Western border. Turkey is about twice its size on the north border and Saudi Arabia is huge and shares the south border. Kuwait is on its southwest border and is tiny. Afghanistan and Pakistan are on the east border of Iran - one country away - and about the same size as Iraq. So, Iraq is in the middle. Comparing the geography to the USA, Iraq is the Midwest of the Middle East.

Maybe you know the names of Iraq's neighbors - Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan are all terrorist nations. The majority of the people who drove those planes on 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia....although for some reason that is rarely spoken of.

All the countries in the above paragraph work as terrorist support and or terrorist nations....Iraq included. And most, if not all of the terrorists who are plaguing the planet right now are coming out of that grouping of countries - including Iraq, or trained there, or supplied from there. Saudi Arabia, huge and to the south, was the main supporter of the religious minority Iraq regime we just defeated - Now Iran, large and to the east, is supporting the overtaking of the county by the majority religious group. So, Iraq is in jeopardy of simply loosing one terrorist regime, and getting a new one. And both countries are Oil Rich enough to buy whatever terrorist weaponry they want.

So, Lets compare the geography to the United States again- from a strategic view point. How could you cripple the USA's ability to work as an organization? Take out the Midwest. Create a new nation in the Midwest that will not allow the east coast, west coast, and southern states to work through it or with it. Now, geographically the USA can't function very well, if at all.

And without Iraq, neither can the Middle East Terrorist machine. If (and that is a tall order, huge gamble) we can remove Iraq from that group -- we can cripple he terrorists of the world -- and that would be really really HUGE for the planet.

It isn't about oil. Its about terrorists.

Pete