do I really have to say it???
Posted on 11/30/2006 8:19:10 AM PST by jmc1969
U.S. officials say they have found smoking-gun evidence of Iranian support for terrorists in Iraq: brand-new weapons fresh from Iranian factories. According to a senior defense official, coalition forces have recently seized Iranian-made weapons and munitions that bear manufacturing dates in 2006.
This suggests, say the sources, that the material is going directly from Iranian factories to Shia militias, rather than taking a roundabout path through the black market. "There is no way this could be done without (Iranian) government approval," says a senior official.
Iranian-made munitions found in Iraq include advanced IEDs designed to pierce armor and anti-tank weapons. U.S. intelligence believes the weapons have been supplied to Iraq's growing Shia militias from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which is also believed to be training Iraqi militia fighters in Iran.
Evidence is mounting, too, that the most powerful militia in Iraq, Moktada al-Sadr's Mahdi army, is receiving training support from the Iranian-backed terrorists of Hezbollah.
Two senior U.S. defense officials confirmed to ABC News earlier reports that fighters from the Mahdi army have traveled to Lebanon to receive training from Hezbollah.
While the New York Times reported that as many as 2,000 Iraqi militia fighters had received training in Lebanon, one of the senior officials said he believed the number was "closer to 1,000." Officials say a much smaller number of Hezbollah fighters have also traveled through Syria and into Iraq to provide training.
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move troops out of the cities and to the borders. Let the Iraqi troops/police deal with the cities, with our guys on stand by to come in to take care of situations.
What will we do?
Simply take yourself back to the placards that the Iranians shoved in our faces every night while holding hundreds of hostages
..."You can't do anything to us"
Sadr should have been taken out a long time ago. He's too idolized and important now to do so. If you think Iraq is bloody now you haven't seen anything.
Ping for above
Like we didn't know this... Obvious enough for the "captain" to come to the rescue.
"So we are being governed by a bunch of Chamberlains. Been there, done that. That script leads to millions of deaths."
That is PRECISELY where we are at. Bullseye.
Bomb the Holy Shiite out of them!!
They're eager to wipe entire countries off the map in support of the Sunnis in Palestine, but they supply terrorists with weapons to obliterate Sunnis in Iraq.
That really is the answer, we need to do a Reagan. Identify the sanest and most likely to succeed resistance group, support them and their popogandaa, support them with arms, and let them go at it with covert support.
But the Liberals in the gov't would leak so bad nothing could be done covertly.
Yes, I agree. I believe it is time to turn them lose.
--Anyone care to theorize what would be happening in Iraq and/or U.S. right now if the U.S. had never gone into Iraq and Saddam was still in power?--
Zarqawi, Uday, and Qusay would still be at 98.6 degrees body temperature. Chemical Ali would be free to play golf with OJ.
Qadhafi would be holding on to his nukes.
The inspectors would have produced a whitewash report on WMD, and the UN would be applauded by the world.
The oil-for-food scam would be buried as deeply as the Venona cables. Kofing Anus would have won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Sanctions would have ended, allowing Saddam to fund whatever palaces & suicide bombers he wished.
The Enemedia would have blamed Bush for the high oil prices and worldwide recession, provoking a RATS election landslide.
President Jean-Francois Kerree and First Hag Teresa Heinz would be wining and dining leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad at the White House, together with Small Peanut Carter, Woody-for-brains Harrelson & the fat b@$t@rd who made that oscar-winning "9-11 documentary".
Justices Alcee Hastings and Lynne Stewart would be on the Supreme Court instead of Roberts & Alito.
Ambassador Monica Lewinsky would be in Paris, servicing Jacques Chiraq.
Imagine that, but the left says Iran is a peaceful nation. Make 'em glow!
hilarious, and sadly, probably true.
Well, don't be to hasty. We haven't seen the wonderful Baker/Hamilton report yet. It might say "talk to them...after Bush has knocked them flat on their azz"!
But, then again....probably not.
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