Why are we in Iraq?
Here's the short version, bottom line.
(AFP) The US detained an Iranian last week who they claimed was "a kingpin" of smuggling "RPG-29s, explosively-formed penetrators (EFPs), 240 mm rockets and Misagh-1 surface-to-air missiles" from Iran into Iraq.
(AP) The Iraqis want him freed immediately. Al Maliki, "The government of Iraq is an elected one and sovereign. When it gives a visa, it is responsible for the visa," he said. "We consider the arrest ... of this individual who holds an Iraqi visa and a (valid) passport to be unacceptable."
Iraqi President, Jalal Talabani, perhaps the most influential politician in Iraq, demanded the Iranians release on Saturday.
What enemy is the US fighting here? Either the US is openly lying about the Iranian arms flows or the US is fighting the Iraqi government. What are the prospects of "standing them up" if they are the enemy?
(AP) US starts late manning Iran-Iraq border.
(AFP) The US detained an Iranian last week who they claimed was "a kingpin" of smuggling "RPG-29s, explosively-formed penetrators (EFPs), 240 mm rockets and Misagh-1 surface-to-air missiles" from Iran into Iraq.
(AP) The Iraqis want him freed immediately. Al Maliki, "The government of Iraq is an elected one and sovereign. When it gives a visa, it is responsible for the visa," he said. "We consider the arrest ... of this individual who holds an Iraqi visa and a (valid) passport to be unacceptable."
Iraqi President, Jalal Talabani, perhaps the most influential politician in Iraq, demanded the Iranians release on Saturday.
What enemy is the US fighting here? Either the US is openly lying about the Iranian arms flows or the US is fighting the Iraqi government. What are the prospects of "standing them up" if they are the enemy?
(AP) US starts late manning Iran-Iraq border.
posted by mikevotes at
7:54 AM
2 Comments:
"What enemy is the US fighting here?"
This is the question of the century, my friend? Perhaps the enemy is anyone who stands in our way of controlling -- either directly or via surrogate -- the oil fields of the world. (The Greenspan doctrine).
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-epm, at 11:17 AM
Fair argument, although I don't think Greenspan can lay claim to that idea.
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mikevotes, at 2:02 PM
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