Commentary: TKO by axis of evil By Arnaud de Borchgrave UPI Editor at Large Published May 20, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi visits Iraq for the best part of a week, confers with Iraq's new government in Baghdad's Green Zone while suicide bombers wreak havoc outside, then travels to Najaf for an audience with Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Iraq's supreme Shiite leader (who has always declined to meet with U.S. officials), and caps things off with a joint Iran-Iraq pledge to respect each other's sovereignty and independence, and reject any link between Islam and terrorism.
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Iran suddenly seemed to vindicate those who have long argued the main victor of the U.S. invasion would be Iran, not the United States.
Not bad for a charter member of President Bush's axis of evil. Kharrazi, sans helmet and body armor, clearly outshined U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, with helmet and body armor. He also had more meetings with Iraqi topsiders than Rice. And this after 12,000 U.S. casualties, including 1,620 killed, and some $200 billion in U.S. treasure.
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