Posted on 01/17/2007 6:04:55 AM PST by pissant
There is a two-sided coin of Special Operations. That is, SOCOM. The first side is gathering intelligence, the other side is acting on that intelligence.
For a long time now, we have been quietly collecting intelligence on Iranian networks operating in southern Iraq. We have been watching who in the Iraqi government is more loyal to Iran than Iraq, who is in charge, where the money and weapons flow, etc., ad infinitum.
Now it is time for a "Night of the Long Knives". The word has been issued to roll up these networks, to harvest the traitors, saboteurs, infiltrators, fifth columnists, and other scum.
The smaller networks can be done as police actions, but some of the larger ones are going to turn violent. Personally, I would estimate perhaps 5000 or more Iranian agents and sympathizers are operating in southern Iraq and Baghdad, so it will take some time.
However, now that the roll-up has begun, it is putting a serious crimp in Iranian battle plans, as much as when the Israelis wiped out billions of dollars of Hezbollah infrastructure in Lebanon.
By all appearances, the US is trimming the big branches before going to work on the trunk.
LOL..........I can see and hear the MSM and the left wailing: Bush attacked Iran without any proof of the existence of WMDs.
If you ask them what kind of proof do you need? They probably answer: bomb tested, long range rockets tested, proof of mounting bombs on rockets and last but not least, the intent to use them by wiping out another country!
Appeasers and traitors except, of course, for a liberal CIC!
No declaration of war form this pathetic congress will be forthcoming. It won't stop Bush from doing what needs to be done though.
Let's hope your analysis is correct.
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