Iran declares war on U.S.

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | April 5th 2004 | Joseph Farah

[F14 Pilot]

Nobody else is saying it, so, once again, it is left to me to explain what really happened in Iraq yesterday.

Iran declared war on the U.S.

The signs have been there for a long time. I don't know if they have been intentionally ignored by U.S. forces in Iraq, or whether there is some master plan at the Defense Department to deal with this scenario.

All I can tell you is we are now fighting a regional war. Our local opposition in Iraq is being trained, armed and directed with foreign support – by neighboring Iran.

The uprising yesterday was treated in many initial news accounts as a spontaneous uprising directed by Najaf cleric Moktada al-Sadr.

What the other news accounts left out was one significant, but well-established fact: Al-Sadr works for Iran. He is an Iranian agent. His authority comes from Iran.

Last April, an Iranian cleric, Kadhem al-Husseini al-Haeri, issued a religious edict and distributed to Shiite mullahs in Iraq, calling on them "to seize the first possible opportunity to fill the power vacuum in the administration of Iraqi cities."

The edict, or fatwa, issued April 8, 2003, showed that Shiite clerics in Iraq are receiving significant direction from Iran. The edict said that Shiite leaders have to "seize as many positions as possible to impose a fait accompli for any coming government."

"People have to be taught not to collapse morally before the means used by the Great Satan if it stays in Iraq," the fatwa read. "It will try to spread moral decay, incite lust by allowing easy access to stimulating satellite channels and spread debauchery to weaken people's faith."

The fatwa also instructed the cleric's followers to "raise people's awareness of the Great Satan's plans and of the means to abort them."

On April 7, the day American troops effectively toppled Hussein's government by seizing its main seats of power in Baghdad, al-Haeri sent a handwritten letter to the city of Najaf, appointing Moktada al-Sadr as his deputy in Iraq.

Haeri wrote: "We hereby inform you that Mr. Moktada al-Sadr is our deputy and representative in all fatwa affairs."

It added: "His position is my position."

Also last April, WorldNetDaily reported that Iran had armed and trained some 40,000 Shiite Iraqi fighters – most former prisoners of war captured during the Iran-Iraq war – and sent them to Iraq to foment an Islamic revolution. The report originated in my premium, online, intelligence newsletter G2 Bulletin.

The report said this small army represents the vanguard of Iran's effort to subvert the U.S.-led liberation of Iraq and use the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime for its own ends.

"Ayatollah Mohammed Bakir Khakim is on record pledging more than once to his followers a plan to impose Islamic rule over Iraq with the help of Iran," reports G2 Bulletin. "The Tehran ayatollahs, or the Pasadran, the powerful revolutionary guard, repeatedly have been telling the Iraqis they would be their legitimate allies and partners. In such a scenario, there is no room for the U.S. The coalition that liberated Iraq is seen by the Iraqi Shiite militants and their Iranian sponsors as a tool for handing Iraq over to them without the need to use a massive force of their own."

Iran has clear objectives in Iraq. The only question is whether the United States still has clear objectives in Iraq – and whether Washington recognizes that this war front just got wider.

[VMI70]

I'm sorry to say that I share your sentiments.

Regarding the Middle East: People can't seem to grasp the fact that most Middle Easterners have no sense of "country" like we do. Their allegiances are to tribes, families, religion, and sects, not necessarily in that order. It has been that way since the beginning. That is why we will never be successful in transforming them into something civilized, unless maybe you've got a couple of thousand years to work on it. Assuming that is correct, which, of course, it is, then why bother prolonging the agony.

Yesterday, a poster opined that the way to hasten the inevitable, is to remove the strictures on Israel. They have no illusions, as GWB and his minions apparently do, about the canard that Islam is the "religion of peace".

I agree with him.

The Israelies aren't sweet smelling either, but I think we can deal with them in a civilized manner.

[BraveMan]

Bump this article and Freeper insights . . .

My pleasure, RC.

Landru, I thought you might enjoy Fledermaus' comments on this thread.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Such crap isn't worthy of a flaming. Maybe some sparking.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Fledermaus in 1942 "Waaah, we haven't won YET?"

Fledermaus in 1777 "Waaah, we haven't won YET?

Fledermaus in 1862 "Waaah, we haven't won YET?"

Once a fool always a fool it appears.

[Grampa Dave]

Joe is a little late.

Iran declared war against America when its murdering mullahs siezed our embassy from their buddy Jimmy Carter.

Since then most of the violence from Islamonazi terrorists has been initiated or funded by these murdering mullahs.

When regime change happens in Iran after their buddy al Querry is defeated, Islamofascist/dumbo terrorism incidences will drop like a rock.

Then, when A$$ad is removed from power and wasting air, Islamofascist/dumbo terrorism will basically disappear.

[Dan(9698)]

You forget that the Dems had control of congress under Reagan.

He could not do anything that wasn't agreed to by congress.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Alia]

Thank you for ping-ing me.

[Landru]

"Landru, I thought you might enjoy Fledermaus' comments on this thread."

You did, huh.
Well let's have a look, shall we?

"But then, that's just my opinion. I don't play 'mister nice guy' any longer. I want hell and damnation brought to every MoveOn.org creep, every DU jerk and every single idiot that taxes me to death because they lack simple common sense and want the fruits of MY labor." Fledermaus

Hmmmmmm, interesting.
Don't believe *I* could've said it any better, Braveman.

Because if you want to know the truth I'm fedup to death, myself; and, not just with the Islamic maniacs, either.
Hell those people -- all of 'em -- have been *insane* for centries which more than explains why they live like uncivilized, backward pigs.

No, I've had it up to here with our own US born whackos who actually expect to be *protected* as they set using OUR "freedom(s)" to destroy every GD'd thing that was ever dear & right about this nation -- *including* the nation, itself -- while every other single taxpaying citizen -- it seems -- is *expected* to stand idly by & watch 'em do their *thang*?

Nuts, just plain nuts.

So you see?

...I'm real fedup.

[Eva]

You are exactly right, and I just finished saying that to my husband this morning. If a limited democracy is established in Iraq, the Iranian Mullahas are finished.

[beachn4fun]

It doesn't matter. Bush isn't going to to anything to Iran OR Syria in an "election year". Funny, I thought he was a leader and a different man for the job. Instead, he's nothing but a typical entrenched politician only caring about his ego, his job, his mention in the history books.

Can you please provide your source for this statement? If this is only your opinion, please state so at the beginning. Your opinion may be misleading to others on the thread to believe this is factual. IMO, just because the President might choose to handle one battle at a time, doesn't make him just a "typical entrenched politician only caring about....."

[F14 Pilot]

That will be a turning point for the whole Middle East.

[Right Wing Puppy]

The Soviet Union was still around in those days. Ronnie finally got the best of them in the end. Think about it.

[DCPatriot]

I agree about your opinion....but not with nukes.

Neutron bombs will kill them all but leave the buildings and infrastructure standing. No radioactive fallout.

Take their oil fields and In-Source the jobs to those that want to work.

Then, I'll have a good night's sleep just like you.

[King Prout]

middle-east parking lot alert

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[Eva]

That will be a turning point for the whole Middle East.

Yes, and will finally be the fait accomplis, that the Iraq war was not. As someone else pointed out earlier, the Iraq war was never intended to be an end in itself, regime change in the Middle East was the end goal. That was too difficult to explain and justify to the American people. It was just too large an undertaking to try to win the support necessary. So, the administration just broke it down and used the WMD, a known issue, as the justification.

[yonif]

When I said that, I meant the governments of those countries, led by their ideology of militant Islam.

[ASA Vet]

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[archy]

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