Posted on 01/30/2007 5:01:21 PM PST by Flavius
I have mine on speed dial but it doesn't do a darn bit of good. I's Maine for crying out loud.
I don't have the answers .... I don't know what they are thinking
Hmmmmm ..?? I wonder if the report is being withheld while we beat Iran over the head with it.
Good idea.
Thank you very much!
I find it odd that Iran is sneaking into Iraq to assasinate U.S. officers in Najaf.
I find it odd that Iranian weapons are turning up in the hands of dead insurgents.
Throughout history, Iranians have been smarter than that. Why provoke President Bush *now*, when he's only going to be in Office for 2 more years?
He's not running for re-election. He doesn't have to do the "popular" thing. If he wants to bomb Iran, then Iran will be bombed, bombed again, and bombed hard a few more times all from a single sentence of our CiC.
So what's Iran's motive?
...and then I think back to the documents that we captured in Zarqawi's safe house (not so "safe" after all) in Iraq. Those documents detailed a plan to kidnap Iranians, kill them, and leave their bodies at the scene of a large insurgent attack inside Iraq in order to implicate Iran...thus drawing Iran into the war against the U.S. and thereby creating a defacto ally of Al Qaeda.
Do you actually think that we don't have enough legitimate intelligence that implicates the Iranians? That all we have is some dirty trick safe house documents?
Did you hear the SOTU. The President implicated the Iranians four times.
Well the Karaf attack was setup by Al-Queda...pretty well structured...
Well.....hmmmm....
Pentagon investingating Iran's Qods Force role in Karbala attack
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Based on reporting by Rick Moran and Bill Roggio it is clear the recent attack on a US outpost in Iraq by attackers disguised as Americans was actually an act of war by Iran:
Why would Iran provoke Bush *now*, with U.S. carriers arriving in the med and GWB having a mere 2 years left in Office?
This is not a rhetorical question. I don't understand their motive for behaving badly right now, as opposed to laying low for 2 years and then acting up when some wuss is in Office.
It's to our benefit that they act up now, however, in the sense that they are giving us the right to finally correct the 1979 mess while we still have a warrior in the White House...
...but it strikes me as *odd* that they would hand us such an excuse on a silver platter.
Isn't that the Karbala operation?
Your question is legitimate. It certainly would be the rational thing for Ahmadinejad to wait until some Democrat became President.
Maybe Ahmadinejad isn't rational.
Maybe Ahmadinejad thinks with our emboldened Democrats and our out-to-lunch electorate that he can get away with it.
I do know that the President in the SOTU cited for cases based on what I would think would be rock-solid intelligence of the Iranians supporting insurgents in both Iraq and elsewhere.
Given the hubbub over what happened with the Iraqi intelligence I'd be willing to bet that the President has substantial information.
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1130am update on the hearing and questions about Iran:
Several Senators asked Fallon his views on Iran, which the Bush administration accuses of meddling in Iraq's internal affairs and supplying weapons for use by insurgents against American and Iraqi soldiers.Sen.
Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., asked what he thinks are the intentions of the Iranian government, with regard to security in the Gulf region."They are posturing themselves with the capability to attempt to deny us the ability to operate in this vicinity," Fallon said, adding that there is room for diplomatic efforts with Iran because it also has an economic stake in keeping open the commercial shipping lanes of the Gulf.
"They are aware of our strike capabilities," he added, and are looking for ways to either neutralize those U.S. capabilities or to keep U.S. forces at bay.
Fallon said he has not been ordered to update the Pentagon's contingency plans for war with Iran.
:)
If the gloves don't come off now, pull the troops, there is no reason to keep subjecting them to fighting a war with their hands tied."
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Agreed !
US chief seeks new tack on Iraq
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Countering Iranian influence in Iraq would also be an important priority if he was confirmed in his post, he said.
I would think that any tiny secret, that some of the elected fools get their hands on, goes to Iran, before it goes to the American public.
President Bush, I think, has to keep the tinest detail a secret, he dare not release it for the left to distort.
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