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May 02, 2007
BREAKING NEWS: Iranian Revolutionary Guard Arming Iraqis!!!
This is from March, 2006:
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld accused Iran of sending Revolutionary Guard forces into Iraq to make trouble, and warned Tehran it was "an error in judgement", AFP reported."They are currently putting people into Iraq to do things that are harmful to the future of Iraq..."
This is from last February:
President Bush said Wednesday that "a part of the Iranian government" is involved in sending deadly explosives into Iraq but acknowledged he didn't know whether top Iranian leaders were responsible."What we do know is that the Quds Force was instrumental in providing these deadly IEDs to networks inside of Iraq," Bush said at a White House news conference, referring to a branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
This is from George Tenet's new book, p. 390-1
In the run-up to war, the United States had promised to deliver a large amount of weapons to the two main Kurdish factions in northern Iraq (the PUK and the KDP) so that they could effectively join in the coming fight. Obtaining the weapons was not a problem for us, but getting them there was another matter...The Kurds were exasperated at the delay. "Where are the weapons you promised us?" they asked over and over again. We had no satisfactory answer. Finally, in 2003, about a month before the start of the war, Tom S., the head of our NILE team in Suleimaniya, was told by the local PUK representative, "Never mind." He was stunned to watch as trucks rolled up to a warehouse only fifty feet from his base and tons of weapons were delivered to the Kurds by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
EARLIER: Saddam and the U.S. agree on the terrorist Iranian snakes.
Posted at May 2, 2007 09:35 AM | TrackBackThat could have been a sale!!! The arms business is VERY competitive and one must be timely with deliveries to keep that customer satisfied as another salesman is competing for that account. One is shocked over the loss of a valuable client over the easily avoidable failure to deliver in a timely manner. NOW the Iranians have STOLEN OUR CUSTOMER. (bombing Teheran is the only answer to geting our valuable clients back)
Posted by: Mike Meyer at May 2, 2007 12:07 PMthey forgot the most important, and fearful fact:
IRAN IS TRAINING MONKEYS TO BLOW THEMSELVES UP AT US CHECKPOINTS!!!!
killer howler monkeys, raining destruction and feces down on our boys! THIS is the smoking gun!
duct tape your windows NOW!
attack! attack!.......anyone who disagrees with this!
It is not like this was going to be a surprise anyway as far as realpolitik goes. But to determine how far up the Iranian complicity goes, and to stop it at the source as much as possible, is the key. It's a dirty job and someone's gotta do it, but if everyone stopped pretending otherwise, it would make this site a lot more bearable.
Posted by: En Ming Hee at May 2, 2007 08:22 PMBy golly yes it must actually be true when you have Rummy, Bush, and Tenet all saying Iran is supplying weapons to Iraq. One would certainly be hard-put to find this much integrity in one awesome package. Let us forget that there are gun runners who sell weapons for profit and may have nothing at all to do with the Iranian government. We should just make stupid assumptions based on what some dumb-ass Marine general says about purely circumstantial evidence. I mean can you say aluminum tubes?
Posted by: rob payne at May 3, 2007 02:08 AMThe weapons are mainly coming from the losers (Egypt, Syria, S.A.), not the winners (Iran) in Iraq. Iran has nothing more to gain than they already have.
It would make more sense if they were blaming Turkey, but we've pretty much given them the go ahead with to the Kurds in 08', so that that theory is factually no less in the crapper than Iran.
These guys seem to be running out of lies and don't seem capable of covering their asses or overcoming the backfire...
Posted by: at May 3, 2007 12:42 PM
