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Salam Pax tells us something interesting...

The CIA is contacting Mukhabarat [Iraqi intelligence] agents for possible cooperation.
[...] the people whose specialty was Iran, they are welcomed, asked if they would be kind enough to contact their colleagues and would they be interested in coming aboard the groovy train?

Now, throw in (US Deputy Secretary of defence) Paul Wolfowitz's comments that one of the major reasons for attacking Iraq was that it would allow the US to make life easier for the Saudi government by removing US troops from their country, and...

The US is "promoting democracy" in the middle east by propping up a feudal monarchy, and threatening (maybe even getting ready to invade) one of the few countries in the region with a popularly-elected reformist government. Lovely.