Posted on 01/19/2007 6:04:15 AM PST by nuconvert
The Irbil Five
New York Sun Staff Editorial
January 19, 2007
Quite a tug of war is going on within the Bush administration over what to do with a clutch of Iranian saboteurs seized in the Iraqi theater. The Iranians were seized only hours after President Bush, in his nationally televised address on his plan to reinforce our troops in Iraq, declared that we would interdict the efforts of our enemies to support the insurgency from redoubts in Iran and Syria. In a dramatic raid on the morning of January 10 in Irbil, American forces entered an Iranian building and took into custody five members of an Iranian group known as Quds Force. This group is the unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, named for the Arabic word for Jerusalem, responsible for supporting anti-American and anti-Jewish terrorism. The raid appeared to be vindication for hard-liners who have wanted the administration not only to focus on the problem of the Iranians and Syrians, but also to do something about it.
It turns out, however, that the capture of the Iranians ignited a feud within the administration, and this is the moment for Mr. Bush to decide whether he wants to win a war or a news cycle. Because he will surely lose both if these killers are returned to Iran. (excerpt) some administration officials are floating a scenario whereby the Irbil five would be made to sweat it out for a few weeks and then when fewer people are watching, and be sent back to the terror capital of the world. (excerpt) On one side are the Central Intelligence Agency, which has flubbed nearly every assignment it's had in this war, and the State Department, whose very DNA seems to make it incapable of supporting a hard line.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
Show trial, community service, then indentured servitude to Hollywood elites.
That is true. I was thinking just this morning, while reading about Hugo Chavez being given powers to rule by decree in VZ, that had it not been for the State Department's intercession, Hugo would have been dead years ago and none of this left-wing takeover of Latin America would be occurring. Why exactly do we have a State Department that is so opposed to doing anything that might protect or help the United States in any way?
They should be dead already ..
Bush needs to slap down the State Dept.
That will not happen.
Read my lips.....NO MORE DEALS WITH TERRORISTS, thugs, extremists and those who aide them. We stand with the moderates.
I'm sure colleges would line up to hire them.
Iran doesn't care if they get them back or not, they have more henchmen than they know what to do with. Get everything you need to know from them and then send them to Gitmo.
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