I think I can safely say now, that I have seen it all. The Iranians have been denying for over a year now, their involvement in the Iraq War - they have denied training fighters of the Mahdi militias, they have denied supplying IED weapons and they have denied having Quds forces operatives in Iraq. But today, Iran called off any more Iraq security talks with the U.S. because the U.S. won't call off pressure and attacks against the Mahdi Shiite militias (mainly in Sadr City and Basra). Unbelievable. Here's from the story here at Breitbart:
And this is what the lunatic Foreign Minister of Iran said:
What this means, is simple to me anyway. Iran views the Mahdi militias as THEIR troops - they are Iran's entry into the conflict. It has been well documented how often Mookie al Sadr has been in Iran over the past 18 months - he turned his militias over to Iran to train, to arm and to eventually use as they saw fit. Bottom line? Iran views the Shiite militias in Iraq no differently than they view Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza. Iran wants nothing better than to control Iraq upon a U.S. exit from that land - I'm sure Iran would qualify it as them protecting the Iraqi people from the big bad al Qaeda. But make no bones about it, Iran wants control of Iraq.
So why the U.S. has even bothered with these bogus talks about securing Iraq with the Persians is beyond me. I'm sure part of it is to quell opinions of the Dems here back home that we are "negotiating" and probably a lot of it is to try and remove the Shiite militias from the bloodbath but in my view, this gives us the free pass. The Iranians have now said they won't talk so it's our chance to blow the ever living shit out of al Sadr's forces. It is a year too long since we should have taken Mookie out for good and decimated his rag tag army. End this once and for all by destroying the militias and in that action, we will basically be telling the Iranians to go to hell.
Iran called off further Iraq security talks with Washington until U.S. forces stop their crackdown on Shiite militias, but the military brought more air power into the fight Monday and escalated its accusations of Iranian backing for extremists.
The latest flare-up has put Iraq's government in a bind as it seeks to stamp out armed Shiite gangs but worries about angering Shiite heavyweight Iran, which has close ties to the core of Iraq's political leadership.
And this is what the lunatic Foreign Minister of Iran said:
"What we are witnessing is open and extensive bombing of the Iraqi nation, while the main goal of talks with the American side would have been security and peace in Iraq," Hosseini said. "It is a matter of doubt that the U.S. is pursuing a solution for the crisis, which was caused by them."
What this means, is simple to me anyway. Iran views the Mahdi militias as THEIR troops - they are Iran's entry into the conflict. It has been well documented how often Mookie al Sadr has been in Iran over the past 18 months - he turned his militias over to Iran to train, to arm and to eventually use as they saw fit. Bottom line? Iran views the Shiite militias in Iraq no differently than they view Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza. Iran wants nothing better than to control Iraq upon a U.S. exit from that land - I'm sure Iran would qualify it as them protecting the Iraqi people from the big bad al Qaeda. But make no bones about it, Iran wants control of Iraq.
So why the U.S. has even bothered with these bogus talks about securing Iraq with the Persians is beyond me. I'm sure part of it is to quell opinions of the Dems here back home that we are "negotiating" and probably a lot of it is to try and remove the Shiite militias from the bloodbath but in my view, this gives us the free pass. The Iranians have now said they won't talk so it's our chance to blow the ever living shit out of al Sadr's forces. It is a year too long since we should have taken Mookie out for good and decimated his rag tag army. End this once and for all by destroying the militias and in that action, we will basically be telling the Iranians to go to hell.
Iran calls off more security talks with US about Iraq
Washington has long accused Iran of arming and training some Shiite militia factions. The accusations were sharpened Monday as the military said detainees described being trained at bases outside Tehran by militants from Hezbollah, an Iranian-aided faction based in Lebanon.
Iraq's Shiite-led government said battles against militias would continue even if Iran pulled out of the security talks. Three rounds have been held at the ambassador level since May and marked rare direct diplomatic contact between the two nations, which have had no formal relations since shortly after Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution.
There are also worries that Sunni extremists are regrouping. Attacks blamed on al-Qaida in Iraq have claimed dozens of lives in recent days, including an attack Monday that killed at least 10 Iraqi soldiers and wounded 13 at a checkpoint in Diyala province northeast of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
In Baghdad's Sadr City, a Shiite slum where 2.5 million people live, U.S. and Iraqi force have been under sustained attacks by militias including members of the powerful Mahdi Army led by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
Hundreds of people have been killed in Baghdad and the southern city of Basra since late March when Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, launched an offensive against Shiite militias and so-called "special groups" with suspected ties to Iran.
On Monday, the U.S. Air Force unleashed one of its most potent weapons, the AC-130 gunship, against Shiite extremists in Baghdad. The U.S. military said it killed at least nine militants in clashes since Sunday.
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