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| Chairman of JSOC contradicts Administration on Iranian weapons in Iraq |
| 2007-02-13 |
Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Tuesday there was no evidence the Iranian government was supplying Iraqi insurgents with highly lethal roadside bombs, apparently contradicting claims by other U.S. military and administration officials. Can anyone on the Burg explain why the US has not forcibly closed the Iraq/Iran border & arrested as many Iranians in Iraq as they can catch? I must be missing something here. Obviously there is a Khomeini Trail (like the Ho Chi Minh trail of the Viet Nam era) in full operation here. |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #5 On Monday, Pace said he had no firm knowledge that the Iranian government had sanctioned the arming of the insurgents. ''It is clear that Iranians are involved, and it's clear that materials from Iran are involved, but I would not say by what I know that the Iranian government clearly knows or is complicit,'' Pace told the Voice of America. From the article, thanks to BugMeNot ( microsoftfanboy / microsoftblows ) (note: don't blame, I just picked the first one!) Notice that what Pace actually says is not exactly the message you get from the headline. This seems to be a common journalistic practice nowadays, not limited to the NY Slimes. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2007-02-13 17:12 |
| #4 You can't close those borders. You would need a million troops and constant flight patrols to even marginally cover the border in all places including the mountainous regions to the NE where the Kurds rule. The Kurds couldn't even keep al-Zarqhui from experimenting with bio-agents up there. Too damn porous - ask the jarheads in Al-Anbar about the Syrian border and if you can close it. Just like Pakistan is to Afghanistan the only way to shut down the traffic is heavy strategic bombing especially at night with good FTC. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back 2007-02-13 16:29 |
| #3 OP, Read the NY Slimes article and imagine the interview and sleazy questions. I doubt Pace contradicted the military briefers in Baghdad as they never claimed to have evidence the IED's were being sent by the Iranian government. I don't know that Bush or the administration has made any on the record statement regarding the Iranian origin of the IEDs. NYT trying to manufacture news to fit its editorial stance yet again. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-02-13 15:32 |
| #2 Chairman of JSOC contradicts Administration on Iranian weapons in Iraq In the bad old days, this would have gotten a general fired, reduced in grade, and forcibly retired. Today, ??????? Sabotage is sabotage, whether it's words, deeds, or actually breaking something that's difficult to replace. Pace has stepped on something, and it's not a fluffy bunny. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-02-13 15:19 |
| #1 This just in, there will be a short-term border closure, lasting all of 72 hours. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-02-13 12:47 |