Posted on 08/30/2007 8:14:07 AM PDT by ventanax5
Iran, and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah, have been actively involved in supporting Shia militias and encouraging sectarian violence in Iraq since the invasion of 2003—and Iranian planning and preparation for that effort began as early as 2002. The precise purposes of this support are unclear and may have changed over time. But one thing is very clear: Iran has consistently supplied weapons, its own advisors, and Lebanese Hezbollah advisors to multiple resistance groups in Iraq, both Sunni and Shia, and has supported these groups as they have targeted Sunni Arabs, Coalition forces, Iraqi Security Forces, and the Iraqi Government itself. Their infl uence runs from Kurdistan to Basrah, and Coalition sources report that by August 2007, Iranian-backed insurgents accounted for roughly half the attacks on Coalition forces, a dramatic change from previous periods that had seen the overwhelming majority of attacks coming from the Sunni Arab insurgency and al Qaeda.
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Iraq has been complaining since AUGUST about the IRANIAN SHELLING OF IRAQ in the Kurdish area. Either the US hits IRAN or bring the troops home - no brains in the WH, no guts in Congress. Do what is right - this is WAR - or get out and yak, yak, yak to each other all you want.
What is Bush going to do about Iran!
Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran! Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran some more!
He has to find his testicles first. Lost since 2002.
Iran has been at this sort of thing for a very long time and has enjoyed considerable success in Lebanon particularly as well as elsewhere. They are not going to stop as a response to any solely diplomatic effort.
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