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Iran May Have Trained Attackers That Killed 5 American Soldiers, U.S. and Iraqis Say
The New York Times ^ | 31 Jan 07 | JAMES GLANZ and MARK MAZZETTI

Posted on 01/30/2007 7:41:32 PM PST by elhombrelibre

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To: Mo1
And members of Congress don't want us to go after Iran

True, but many of them are just following public opinion. There's no stomach for a real fight with Iran among the majority of Americans.

Much like the Chinese entry into the Korean war, we're just going to pretend that the Iranians aren't really at war with us. The Americans of the time weren't all that interested in being in Korea in the first place, and they certainly didn't want an all out war with China. Pretending that the invading Chinese were volunteers was a conventient fiction for both sides.

What we have now, albiet on a smaller scale, is much the same effect. Iran can fight us without having to fight us. We can't really take the battle to them, due to public opinion, so we pretend along as best we can.

61 posted on 01/31/2007 8:18:48 AM PST by Steel Wolf (As Ibn Warraq said, "There are moderate Muslims but there is no moderate Islam.")
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To: elhombrelibre

The "I" in IED now stands for "Iranian", not "Improvised".


62 posted on 01/31/2007 8:22:13 AM PST by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: elhombrelibre

There is no end to their perfidy.


63 posted on 01/31/2007 9:34:24 AM PST by Doc91678 (Doc91678)
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To: elhombrelibre

May have? Oh please! We know they did! We can assume they did anyway, screw 'em! What are we waiting for? The Messiah?


64 posted on 01/31/2007 9:52:37 AM PST by Sword_Svalbardt (Sword Svalbardt)
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To: elhombrelibre
"True, and the troops do a lot of great things everyday."

In both Iraq and Afghanistan schools, medical clinic and children's clubs have been constructed and nothing in the liberal media.

65 posted on 01/31/2007 11:52:09 AM PST by M. Espinola (Freedom is Never Free)
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