Sunday, August 19, 2007
The quest for a "smoking gun" continues
We get the latest attempt to stir up a casus belli against Iran from the good people at McClatchy.
And it seems that Iran always helps Sadr's Mahdi Army and never Maliki's Badr Brigades. How curious.
And talk about leaving the door open.
Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, a top U.S. commander who is in charge of a large swath of Iraq south of Baghdad, believes there are about 50 members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps in his battlefield area, military spokeswoman Maj. Alayne Conway said.Given what we already know about the support provided by the Saudis this is small potatoes. Far less than what the CIA did when the USSR was in Afghanistan, or what the Soviets and Chinese did during Viet Nam. And efforts should be made to stop it, in Iraq. But by no means is this a cause for war nor even a half baked brick in the wall that Dickwahd is trying to build. This is the price Dickwahd and Our Dear Sock Puppet Leader are making out troops pay for their stupidity. If anything, another reason why we should leave.
Conway said that U.S.-led forces have not caught any of the Iranians, but she said military intelligence and recently discovered caches of weapons with Iranian markings on them indicate that the Iranians are there.
Lynch's assertion is the latest in a series of accusations leveled by military officials against Iran. They have warned that Iraq's neighbor is actively supplying Shiite insurgents - specifically, the Mahdi Army - with deadly weapons that have killed dozens of U.S. soldiers.
And it seems that Iran always helps Sadr's Mahdi Army and never Maliki's Badr Brigades. How curious.
And talk about leaving the door open.
She said a brigade of about 2,000 soldiers from the country of Georgia will soon be patrolling the border and may find further evidence of Iranian meddling.Stay tuned, more to follow.
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