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2008-04-29 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Is an Iranian general pulling the strings in Iraq?

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Posted by gorb 2008-04-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 In hindsight did we invade the wrong country as we have strengthened Irans influence?????

Would removing Irans Regime been the better option before Iraq.

Just a thourgt before peple moan at me!!!!

Posted by Paul 2008-04-29 09:09|| 2008-04-29 09:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Even McClatchy now admits Iran is in Iraq. Planets are coming into alignment for the great conjunction.

Posted by doc 2008-04-29 11:13|| 2008-04-29 11:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Yes, it does seem as though the glaring light of reality is finally being shone upon the swine in Iran. The rhetoric is being ratcheted up, but not in a threatening way, more in a evidence-presenting manner. The more it is made clear that Iran is directly responsible for obstructing peace in Iraq and killing our soldiers (I'm putting those in the order the dem's prioritize them) then the more likely (hopefully) we will hit some military targets in Iran.

Posted by remoteman 2008-04-29 13:21|| 2008-04-29 13:21|| Front Page Top

#4 That's kind of reassuring. Since the propaganda line is "Quds Force stopped the fighting", that means that they aren't claiming to have started the fighting, which was what I had begun to suspect. That means that the sudden onset of the Basra operation was an indigenous Shia brainstorm, not a Persian plot. It also suggests that Sadr wasn't thrown under the bus by the Iranians, which has been the recent line of analysis. That is, assuming McClatchy aren't asking a bunch of ignorant fucknuts with flan for brains.

But either way, if the Iranians are claiming to have saved Sadr, that still tends to eliminate the possibility that they deliberately knifed him in favor of Dawa and SIIC. More like Dawa and SIIC started picking on the weak, fat kid & the recess teacher came storming over to break it up.

But I'll note that the late March truce didn't exactly hold from the Mahdi point of view. If the mean kids want to make the geek's life miserable, he's gonna be miserable. They know where to get extra lunch-money now.

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