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Title:LINTHWAITE Agreed but Shiite expansionism is opportunistic
Name:PETER SM
City: MELBOURNEState: AUSTRALIA
and a historical fact certainly not the result of any one issue.The rivalry is almost as old as Islam.
Bush is not my president and Sadaam was an Arab hero he was doing his bit for Islamic birth controll.
Sadaam went to the gallows with a warning about the "Persians" on his lips.There is more to this rivalry than any single issue.It is a metaphor for the whole M.E. which many do not understand or seek to deny for their own ideological reasons.