PROVOCATION ON BORDER?!
The U.S. generals and neo-con promoters (of this misguided approach of America’s) are trying to persuade its last few allies in the region to get involved in supporting a permanent U.S. presence on the Iran-Iraq border.
The BBC reports:
“The US military is planning to build its first base near Iraq's border with Iran in order to curb the alleged flow of weapons to Shia militants in Iraq. Maj Gen Rick Lynch told the Wall Street Journal that the base would be located 6.4km (four miles) from the border and house at least 200 US soldiers. US forces also plan to build fortified checkpoints on major roads leading to Baghdad from Iran, Gen Lynch said. . . . Last month, US officials said they might designate Iran's Revolutionary Guards a ‘terrorist’ organisation for helping to destabilise Iraq and Afghanistan. Iran has denied the allegations.”
In a way, sending only 200 U.S. forces to man a U.S. base on the Iran-Iraq border appears to be a step towards simply:
(a) setting up a target for enemies in a desert to take a pot shot at as they travel by,
(b) creating a point to incite a war for just about any reason imaginable, and/or
(c) setting up a beachhead for a future war or invasion of the oil fields of Iran.
In any of these scenarios, the intention is 180 degrees from what Americans and Congress are asking this administration to undertake at this junction in history.
Iran has already responded with venomous replies. Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, stated: "If they approach our borders, they will be within reach of our fire, which is not for their good.”
Larijani added, “Neither the Iraqi people nor the government will allow the US troops to remain in their country, Larijani said noting that what really counted was the Iraqi government which said it would not permit such a base to be set up near the Iranian borders.” Larijani also called parts of the Crocker-Petreaus full of “contradictions and lies”.
Larijani said “[Americans] should be accountable to the Iraqi people… asking
‘Iran supplies Iraq with drinking water and electricity but what have you brought for the Iraqi people?’ . . . [but ]. . .You play a key role in causing sectarian rifts among the Iraqi people.’”
WHY THE U.S. IS NOT TRUSTED ANY MORE THAN IRAN
Rick Rowley’s new documentary footage from Iraq, shown on Al-Jazeera English TV, takes viewers to refugees camps around Baghdad where no other American or Western journalists have gone before. His interviews with the refugees in the slums protected by the Mahdi Army. The footage demonstrates that the Al-Anbar province, which has been declared a success by the Neo-Con spin-doctors & General Petreaus , was calmed at a great price of ethnic cleansing. That is the remaining Shia peoples in Al-Anbar regions are now in refugee camps in Iraq or abroad.
Is this the kind of progress Americans want to continue to support?
I think—NOT!
USA: BUSY CREATING DEMOGOGUES
Demagogues are creating daily by the U.S. administration and the American media seems to lap it up. Evidence that the Bush steps toward provoking a war of sorts with Iran is serving to keep a rather incompetent government under President Ahmadinejad in Iran in office. At Friday prayers on the first weekend of Ramadan, Ahmadinejad received a boost from a high cleric, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Khamenei said: “President Bush would be tried in an international court for what had happened in Iraq.”
The U.S. generals and neo-con promoters (of this misguided approach of America’s) are trying to persuade its last few allies in the region to get involved in supporting a permanent U.S. presence on the Iran-Iraq border.
The BBC reports:
“The US military is planning to build its first base near Iraq's border with Iran in order to curb the alleged flow of weapons to Shia militants in Iraq. Maj Gen Rick Lynch told the Wall Street Journal that the base would be located 6.4km (four miles) from the border and house at least 200 US soldiers. US forces also plan to build fortified checkpoints on major roads leading to Baghdad from Iran, Gen Lynch said. . . . Last month, US officials said they might designate Iran's Revolutionary Guards a ‘terrorist’ organisation for helping to destabilise Iraq and Afghanistan. Iran has denied the allegations.”
In a way, sending only 200 U.S. forces to man a U.S. base on the Iran-Iraq border appears to be a step towards simply:
(b) creating a point to incite a war for just about any reason imaginable, and/or
(c) setting up a beachhead for a future war or invasion of the oil fields of Iran.
In any of these scenarios, the intention is 180 degrees from what Americans and Congress are asking this administration to undertake at this junction in history.
Iran has already responded with venomous replies. Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, stated: "If they approach our borders, they will be within reach of our fire, which is not for their good.”
Larijani added, “Neither the Iraqi people nor the government will allow the US troops to remain in their country, Larijani said noting that what really counted was the Iraqi government which said it would not permit such a base to be set up near the Iranian borders.” Larijani also called parts of the Crocker-Petreaus full of “contradictions and lies”.
Larijani said “[Americans] should be accountable to the Iraqi people… asking
‘Iran supplies Iraq with drinking water and electricity but what have you brought for the Iraqi people?’ . . . [but ]. . .You play a key role in causing sectarian rifts among the Iraqi people.’”
WHY THE U.S. IS NOT TRUSTED ANY MORE THAN IRAN
Rick Rowley’s new documentary footage from Iraq, shown on Al-Jazeera English TV, takes viewers to refugees camps around Baghdad where no other American or Western journalists have gone before. His interviews with the refugees in the slums protected by the Mahdi Army. The footage demonstrates that the Al-Anbar province, which has been declared a success by the Neo-Con spin-doctors & General Petreaus , was calmed at a great price of ethnic cleansing. That is the remaining Shia peoples in Al-Anbar regions are now in refugee camps in Iraq or abroad.
Is this the kind of progress Americans want to continue to support?
I think—NOT!
USA: BUSY CREATING DEMOGOGUES
Demagogues are creating daily by the U.S. administration and the American media seems to lap it up. Evidence that the Bush steps toward provoking a war of sorts with Iran is serving to keep a rather incompetent government under President Ahmadinejad in Iran in office. At Friday prayers on the first weekend of Ramadan, Ahmadinejad received a boost from a high cleric, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Khamenei said: “President Bush would be tried in an international court for what had happened in Iraq.”
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