Posted on 08/11/2006 6:45:10 PM PDT by jmc1969
Iran is pressing Shiite militias here to step up attacks against the American-led forces because of the Israeli assault on Lebanon, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq said Friday.
Iran could foment even more violence as it faces off with the United States and United Nations over its nuclear program in the coming weeks, he added.
The Iranian incitement has led to a surge in bold mortar and rocket attacks on the fortified Green Zone, said the ambassador, Zalmay Khalilzad.
The Green Zone, a four-square-mile, or about 10-square-kilometer, area on the west bank of the Tigris River, encloses baroque palaces built by Saddam Hussein that now house the seat of the Iraqi government and the U.S. Embassy, and that are protected by layers of concrete blast walls and concertina wire.
The Shiite guerrillas are members of splinter groups of the Mahdi Army, the powerful militia created by radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, Khalilzad said. The Mahdi Army rose up twice against the Americans in 2004.
The groups behind the recent attacks have ties to both Iran and Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shiite militia in Lebanon that has been battling Israel for a month, the ambassador added. *snip*
The mercurial Sadr has come closest of all the Shiite leaders in hinting that Iraqis might take up arms in support of Hezbollah. He said in late July that Iraqis would not "sit by with folded hands" while Lebanon burned, and on Aug. 4 he summoned up to 100,000 followers to an anti-Israel and anti-American rally in Baghdad. Most of those who showed up were angry young men, many swathed in white cloths symbolizing funeral shrouds and some toting Kalashnikovs.
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Sir, do not edit my post when you're quoting me.
I said: First of all you talk of not understanding a REAL democracy, then you talk of Pro American as if they are one and the same?
Didn't end my sentance after democracy. Democracy/Pro American are not one and the same.
As for the US just giving satellite aid to dictator Saddam...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/3/newsid_4678000/4678707.stm
If Iran had no oil, they would all be starving in the dirt still wiping their bottoms with their left hand and striking their women with their right hands.
From my personal experience with Iranians in general, the culture is a subculture of liars and some dangerous radical folks
Are we supposed to take someone with this store of adolescent insults seriously? Please save them for another forum.
Iraqi democracy is likely to take an Iraqi form. This is a tautology so trite it amazes me that anyone such as youself would consider it enlightenment. It is not inevitably anti-American despite partisans who dredge up every American sin, real or imagined, in order to cast as dark an image as their limited intellects are able.
How has Iran "supported" democracy in Iraq? You make the claim but you provide not a shred of evidence. And please don't cite the BBC, as biased a source as one might find this side of al Jazeera. Primary sources, please, and good luck. What support we do know about involves Iranian weapons factories, high-tech mines, and Iraqi victims principally. This helps democracy how?
Have you posted any shred of evidence that the Iran is against democracy in Iraq?
Never once did I claim the Iraqi government will be Anti American.
I wouldn't spend much time writing up the list of the names of weaponry, bombs and gear which the US has used to "help democracy", but I can sure bet you’ll say every one of those items have help democracy.
Well, I've waited a month for you to back up any of your statements and this is your response. You might as well go away - nobody here takes you seriously, and for good reason.
The burden lies on you and the starter of this thread and other propagandist. You and the US government have no creditability. Not one of you have back up your claims, it is from this understanding that you are right, that this thread should of been left alone as it has no grounds.
US action against Iran and other Middle Eastern countries in the pass has proven that it has no interesting in democracy for these countries, something most of this forum already openly acknowledges.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1251267/posts
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