by James Buchanan. The neocons are still fishing around for an excuse for a war against Iran. On their latest “fishing” trip, they killed five to eight Iraqis in a border village searching for evidence of something that doesn’t exist: Iranian government support of the rebels in Iraq. Iran manufactures surface to air missiles. If the government of Iran wanted to supply weapons to the Iraqi rebels, the US would quickly be in the same position as the Soviets in Afghanistan after the US supplied Stinger surface-to-air missiles to the Afghan rebels (whom we are now fighting). The Iranian missiles are relatively cheap heat-seeking missiles which could make helicopter warfare impossible.
A recent news article reports “Iraqi security forces backed by U.S. troops killed at least five people Friday in a raid on suspected members of what Washington calls an Iranian-backed terrorist group, the U.S. military said. Provincial Iraqi officials said many of the dead were innocent bystanders, and demanded compensation. They said eight people were killed.”
Most Americans have likely forgotten an earlier incident in which the US military claimed that they had found Iranian weapons in Iraq, only to quietly admit they were wrong shortly afterwards when people started pointing out problems with the “Iranian weapons” such as Western markings.
For anyone who missed that earlier story, here it is reproduced below:
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Iran Did Not Supply Weapons to Iraqi Rebels
by James Buchanan
A recent news article reports “In a sharp reversal of its longstanding accusations against Iran arming militants in Iraq , the US military has made an unprecedented albeit quiet confession: the weapons they had recently found in Iraq were not made in Iran at all. According to a report by the LA Times correspondent Tina Susman in Baghdad: ‘A plan to show some alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to journalists last week in Karbala and then destroy them was cancelled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran. A U.S. military spokesman attributed the confusion to a misunderstanding that emerged after an Iraqi Army general in Karbala erroneously reported the items were of Iranian origin. When U.S. explosives experts went to investigate, they discovered they were not Iranian after all.’ The US, which until two weeks ago had never provided any proof for its allegations, finally handed over its ‘evidence’ of the Iranian origin of these weapons to the Iraqi government. Last week, an Iraqi delegation to Iran presented the US ‘evidence’ to Iranian officials. According to Al-Abadi, a parliament member from the ruling United Iraqi Alliance who was on the delegation, the Iranian officials totally refuted ‘training, financing and arming’ militant groups in Iraq . Consequently the Iraqi government announced that there is no hard evidence against Iran.”
So after months of the Bush regime and the neocons trying to provoke war –publicly accusing the Iranians of supplying weapons used to kill US soldiers, the Iraqi government has conducted an investigation and has completely contradicted the Bush regime’s claims and has cleared the Iranians of any wrong doing.
Notice that this revelation is getting virtually no press whatsoever aside from a few alternative news websites on the Internet. In fact, it would be no surprise if Bush or Cheney came out tomorrow and made a speech repeating all of the dishonest accusations they’ve made against Iran over the last six months.
The Bush regime has gone so far as to accuse the Iranian military’s “Quds” Force of being a terrorist organization. This is roughly the equivalent of Russia or France accusing the US Special Forces of being a “terrorist” organization. Has the Bush regime caught ANY Iranian soldiers engaged in terrorist activities anywhere? Of course not. But proof is unnecessary. Bush’s loyal groupies, a “whopping” 29 percent of the US population, who apparently get all their information from Fox News, don’t see what Bush is doing or don’t care if Bush expands the current Mid East war to include Iran.
The rest of us want Bush out of office and a majority of Americans said they’d like to see Bush impeached if we were lied into the Iraq War. The Republican Party is headed for a complete train wreck in 2008. There have been three Congressional elections recently, which were in strongly Republican districts, and all three elections have gone to the Democrats.
Ron Paul was 100 percent right when he said that the Iraq War will devastate the Republican Party in the 2008 elections. The GOP lost its majority in Congress in the 2006 elections. And we’re being told that John McCain won the GOP nomination even though he has made the insane proclamation that he wants to stay in Iraq for the next 100 years.
Frankly, I would prefer to think that Diebold machines stole the primaries for McCain. Even if the American people fell for the anti-Ron Paul propaganda and media news black out, there were several candidates head and shoulders above McCain. Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney look like Ronald Reagan compared to the pro-Amnesty liberal, crazy John McCain.
The important thing to remember out of all this is that everything the Bush regime says about Iran is a LIE. We must stay vigilant against anything these neocon criminals do to start another war. Anything from a false flag attack to “more of the same” lies and propaganda about “Iranian weapons” will be dished up with the intention of providing an excuse for yet another illegal war of aggression in the Middle East.
