Bush's backdoor attack: Iran via Hizbullah

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[Iam1ru1-2]

New policy authorizing attacks on Iranian agents in Iraq also allows for covert ops against Iran-backed terror groups all across ME, including Hizbullah Yitzhak Benhorin

President Bush has authorized an aggressive program aimed at impeding Iran's influence all around the Middle East, including in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories.

Friday, the Washington Post reported Bush's authorization of a new, more intensive policy that allows for more stringent measures against Iran. This includes, primarily, the authority to capture or kill Iranian agents active in Iraq, a story Bush and other US officials did not deny. However, the new policy extends far beyond Iraq.

The Post reported that the new plan is part of a wider US strategy aimed at destroying Iranian influence from Afghanistan to Lebanon, as well as to hinder Iran's nuclear program. In this context, the plan addresses known terrorist entities within the sphere of Iran's influence, such as Hizbullah.

According the Post, during the Lebanon war, senior US officials concluded on the importance of exposing the connection between Iran's nuclear plan and its extensive assistance in arming, training and funding terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda, Hizbullah and insurgent militias in Iraq.

As part of the new plan, US intelligence has now begun covert operations against Hizbullah. It is also focused on weakening Tehran's funding chain to Hizbullah and to various Palestinian terror organizations.

The Post also reported that the White House ordered an extension of what is known among the intelligence community as the "Blue Game Matrix", a list of potential operations to be taken against Hizbullah.

In his State of the Union Address Tuesday, Bush mentioned Hizbullah, referring to it as "second only to al-Qaeda in the amount of American lives it has taken" and condemning its attempts to sow turmoil and undermine the existing Lebanese government.

[dynachrome]

"Washington Post reported Bush's authorization of a new, more intensive policy" Nice that treason is so open now./sarc?

[Dog]

Interesting times we live in...things are going to get hot for Iran.

[dighton]

The mullahs can count on a staunch defender.

[acapesket]

This is a DNC talking point posted earlier today.
REush was all over it, I forget which publication it was in. This is their fear talking.

[acapesket]

that would be Rush as in Limbaugh.. sorry

[prophetic]

Payback to Iran for all the American blood shed over the years is way long overdue.

If the likes of Hitlery gets elected you can believe that America is gonna just sit on its hands while these terrorist go wild!!

[jeffers]

Dog
wrote:
Interesting times we live in...things are going to get hot for Iran.



And us. They aren't ready to concede yet.

Endgame approaching?

Time will tell. War, by definition is unpredictable, but crtain trends are becoming more apparant by the day.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

I dunno...the Democrats will do everything in their power to protect Iran, up to and including destroying this administration. The Democrats have no problems with Islamonazism, but a right-of-center American government cannot be tolerated. If things get hot for Iran, the Democrats will make them much, much hotter for Bush at home.

[edsheppa]

Heartening if true. But there is so much else that should be done. It would have been so much better if the Administration had, for example, taken a hard line in the recent Lebanon conflict. Hezbollah is an international terror organization. They fire unguided missiles, designed to maim, into civilian areas. This war we've embarked upon is against them as much as any other. Instead of putting time limits on the Israelis, Bush should have come down unequivocally on the Israeli side, blessing their elimination of the Hez terrorists and offering aid.