U.S.: "Very desperate" and "very worried" 
Informed speculation: A "very desperate" and "very worried" U.S. will ask middle east counties to send forces to Iraq
juan cole offers this interesting and plausible possibility underlying cheney's middle east trip...
Vice President Richard Bruce Cheney will meet Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday. Al-Zaman ("The Times of Baghdad") says that its sources in Cairo tell it that Cheney will ask that Egypt be ready to send troops to Iraq if the situation there calls for it.
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