"IMO... Muslims, whatever their sect is, are still of same mind.. we are still infidels eventhough we helped them in many ways.. we are considered enemies.."
Do remember. Iran is Persians. Iraq is domininately Arab, with a 17-20% Kurdish population who dislike Arabs from time immortal. Persians very much dislike Arabs, and only have a small minority Arab population, whom always cause trouble.
There are some large differences in how the majority Iraqi Shiite think and how the Persian Shiite think. Iran is classed as an enemy with Saudi Arabia. The Persians have their own oil/gas resources, tons of warm weather ports, and a somewhat advanced commercial/scientific structure. Regardless of whom their friends or foes may be they have for many years been hell bent on obtaining nuclear weapons and he missle technologies to deliver the stuff to Israeli cities. So if Iraq and Iran want to do business, set up oil pipelines which are now in the works etc., that is their bussiness. We have no right to demand Iraq not become on friendly terms with their nieghbors. In fact one reason for OIF, was to create a new Iraq that would be friendly with their neighbors and in the process lessen the chances of us loosing oil from any of these countries if wars broke out as did happen between Iraq and Iran. Iraq's oil industry went kaput due to neglect, because all monies went into creating a war machine that could bet up on all it's neighbors, and eventually take over their oil.
So in MHO, I see nothing wrong with Iraq reaching out to these ME nations and asking for money, investment, etc., to help them become independent, and of course this time around help be a stabliziing force in the ME. Perhaps my thinking is to infantile.
Ping... Well Said..