Iran top threat to Iraq, US says - washingtonpost.com
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Busheviks now singing that McCain tune: "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran". Now we're seeing the pivot from an Al-Qaeda threat to Iran. The Orwellian war that never ends turns a new page of propaganda...
Last week's violence in Basra and Baghdad has convinced the Bush administration that actions by Iran, and not al-Qaeda, are the primary threat inside Iraq, and has sparked a broad reassessment of policy in the region, according to senior U.S. officials. Evidence of an increase in Iranian weapons, training and direction for the Shiite militias that battled U.S. and Iraqi security forces in those two cities has fixed new U.S. attention on what Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates yesterday called Tehran's "malign" influence, the officials said.
The intensified focus on Iran coincides with diminished emphasis on al-Qaeda in Iraq as the leading justification for an ongoing U.S. military presence in Iraq.
In congressional hearings this week, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus said the U.S. military has driven al-Qaeda from Baghdad, Anbar province and central Iraq, and he depicted the group as now largely concentrated in a reduced territory around the northern city of Mosul.
During their Washington visit, Petraeus, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker barely mentioned al-Qaeda in Iraq but spoke extensively of Iran.
With "al-Qaeda in retreat and disarray" in Iraq, said one official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record, "we see other obstacles that were under the waterline more clearly. . . . The Iranian-armed militias are now the biggest threat to internal order".
By Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Last week's violence in Basra and Baghdad has convinced the Bush administration that actions by Iran, and not al-Qaeda, are the primary threat inside Iraq, and has sparked a broad reassessment of policy in the region, according to senior U.S. officials. Evidence of an increase in Iranian weapons, training and direction for the Shiite militias that battled U.S. and Iraqi security forces in those two cities has fixed new U.S. attention on what Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates yesterday called Tehran's "malign" influence, the officials said.
The intensified focus on Iran coincides with diminished emphasis on al-Qaeda in Iraq as the leading justification for an ongoing U.S. military presence in Iraq.
In congressional hearings this week, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus said the U.S. military has driven al-Qaeda from Baghdad, Anbar province and central Iraq, and he depicted the group as now largely concentrated in a reduced territory around the northern city of Mosul.
During their Washington visit, Petraeus, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker barely mentioned al-Qaeda in Iraq but spoke extensively of Iran.
With "al-Qaeda in retreat and disarray" in Iraq, said one official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record, "we see other obstacles that were under the waterline more clearly. . . . The Iranian-armed militias are now the biggest threat to internal order".
By Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, April 12, 2008
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too scary - you can see where they want to take this, and now it makes sense to assume this "fits in" with their wider long term plans. mother fu*%ers.
Tell me you guys in the US will make A LOT of noise if your terrifying government decide to invade/bomb Iran. Help us all. -
Wow. This is scary. Our country can't handle another war!
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- dontslowmedown89
- 5 months ago
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The nation should drop everything it's doing and overwhelm washington DC if the president attempts to attack another nation. Iran funds shiites in other nations because they have been traditionally impoverished and subjected to cruelty by the government in most muslim nations. such as iraq under saddam or lebanon. Sadr has made several attempts to reach a peaceful resolution to the conflict but Maliki will only accept complete disarming. It's funny that the US supports this as one of the founding principles of OUR nation is the right to bear arms to insure protection against a tyrannical government. god how I hate the bush administration.
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don't slowmedown, there won't be a ground war, we don't have the troops to invade, we couldn't get anyones support, and iran is backed by russia. there honestly probably won't even be bombings as bush is about to be out of office. most likely it will be sabotage and covert bombings (see the recent bombing of the mosque)
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I dont know a shiite from a suni or a jew from a christian. I do know that Iraq is in the middle of a civil war we're just postponing the inevitable. Iran wants there side I'm guessing the shiite side to have best possible chance for success. As soon as we leave, Iran will be in place to seize power. This is my fear. The hardliners of Iran are the evil side unfortunately in power. The reformists are trying to modernize Iran. Its the east west mentality or philosophy that really separates. Conservative vs. liberal. Whatever, I say Let It Be! The way I see it World War 3 is here we've started it, whos going to stand against us. It would be another tragedy if we invaded Iran digging our whole deeper.
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Ask Dick Cheney about his recent meeting since "The International Man of Misery" always seems to be around when the Shi'ite hits the fan according to this CIA analyst. -
Listen people, they are not telling the truth. hold your ears, turn off the news, these are more lies so we can get into war with Iran.
The truth is that Saddam was the only president in the middle east stopping Iran from attacking us but if you listen to our officials, they will say that Iran was not going to attack us but Iraq was.
Be real. Now we are in a situation that we have to stay in Iraq in order to keep Iran from attacking Israel-
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- cheche_201
- 5 months ago
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