Posted on 01/31/2007 12:32:45 PM PST by jmc1969
Iraq's prime minister said Wednesday he's sure Iran is behind some attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq and he won't allow his country to be a battleground for the two nations.
"We have told the Iranians and the Americans, 'We know that you have a problem with each other, but we are asking you, please solve your problems outside Iraq,' " Nuri al-Maliki told CNN.
"We will not accept Iran to use Iraq to attack the American forces," al-Maliki said Wednesday in an exclusive interview with CNN. (Read more of al-Maliki interview)
"We don't want the American forces to take Iraq as a field to attack Iran or Syria," he added.
Asked about the role of Iran in Iraq, al-Maliki said he was confident that Iranian influence was behind attacks on U.S. forces. "It exists, and I assure you it exists," he said.
Two officials from separate U.S. government agencies said Tuesday the Pentagon is investigating whether the attack on a military compound in Karbala was carried out by Iranians or Iranian-trained operatives.
"People are looking at it seriously," one of the officials said, adding that the Iranian connection was a leading theory in the investigation.
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Good for Maliki to admit there is a problem. And we already told him hostile iranians will be dealt with.
We sacrificed 3000+ of our best for this clown and his barbaric pit of a country??
It already is!
I'm asking you, please keep Iranians outside Iraq.
Hey Malarkey, the nuts in Iran are your good buddies.
Trouble during the honeymoon?
He's right. We should take the fight to Iran. In Iraq we can only counter the symptoms of the Iranian threat... time to chop off the head.
Okey Dokey.
How many of our best did we sacrifice securing Europe in the 1940's? Nation building isn't a cheap business. You can't claim bankrupcy and start over. Freedom ain't free.
We weren't building islamo nut sand castles in WWII. We are now and from the comments of the schmuck in power over there, it ain't worth the loss of a single US service member.
If Iranians make trouble for the US in Iraq, then 'yard out'. If they stay on their side of the fence, we'll leave them alone.
In case anyone missed it, here's the operative part of Malaki's announcement.
We (President Roosevelt to be precise) gave away all of Eastern Europe and Eastern Germany to Stalin and Communism at the end of WW2.
Hundreds-thousands of American soldiers died for a policy which delivered half of Europe to the Soviets.
Keep that in mind.
This is going nowhere. The ungrateful arse. We should leave. Inside 24-hours this turd will be swinging from a meathook.
Ping!
Way too many in the 1940's, and we should have left the germans in France.
There may be more to this.....by rejecting US/Iranian clashes on Iraq soil, he may be (deliberately) setting the stage for the US to take the fight to Iran.
"We don't want the American forces to take Iraq as a field to attack Iran or Syria," he added.
Doesn't look like it.
Since an American ground invasion of Iran can be ruled out, all American military strikes on Iran can be carried out from the Persian Gulf and the Arabic Gulf states alone.
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