As debate continues over when the United States should redeploy troops out of Iraq, regional powers like Iran and Syria are already jockeying for political position among the country's leaders in anticipation of a post-occupation Iraq, according to senior U.S. intelligence officials. "At all ends of the [Sunni-Shia] spectrum there are those who express perceptions that there is a potential drawdown coming. And in fact, we can see that they have in fact taken those perceptions and begun to operate...
