Apr 09 2008
Iran Does Fund al-Qaeda In Iraq, According To Hamas In Iraq
Ed Morrissey notes over at Hot Air a very interesting interview with a Hamas In Iraq leader, who claims they have evidence of Iranian support to al-Qaeda and the Mahdi Army in Iraq:
Salah Al-Din accused Al-Qaeda of being subservient to Iran, [claiming] that they had [extensive] evidence to that effect. He said: ‘We found Iranian [currency], toman, at an Al-Qaeda headquarters that we uncovered. We have also captured Iranian weapons, not to mention audio and video recordings containing announcements by Al-Qaeda fighters that they had received training in Iranian military camps and that Al-Qaeda wounded were being transported to Iran for medical treatment.’
Well, if you have to take someone’s word for what is happening I would gather a terrorist leader in Iraq may be more in the know than the wild-eyed liberals in the US. If true we have decimated Iran’s primary force for destabilizing Iraq, as the Hamas leader notes:
… Salah Al-Din explained that as of late, Al-Qaeda in Iraq had considerably diminished in size – so much so that today it can be said to constitute 15 percent of what it was a year ago, …
The report notes that Iran has been funding AQ and Sadr’s Mahdi Army, so that means we are on the verge of destroying their last major destabilizing force as we decimate, with our Iraqi allies, the Mahdi forces. This really could mean we are at the tipping point in Iraq where we have taken out so much of the opposition it collapses and cannot rise up again. Stay the course – to success.
EXACTLY, 75! We can thank Jimmy Carter for just about all our international problems today.
And the jerk gave away the Panama Canal. This was a good thing??? NOT!
America is the only country that is bounded by both the Atlantic and the Pacific, which is part of our tremendous success as a nation.
G_d bless America! The greatest and most charitable country on the face of the earth.
First of all, just so we’re clear, recent US official estimates tell that there are approximately 1,000 al Qaeda members in Iraq. One thousand.
The war in Iraq is based on a fantasy, the same fantasy that keeps this blog bouncing along the bottom, picking up the occasional magnetized rite-wing fruitbat.
Anyone who truly believes Carter facilitated the entire radical Islamic movement has been playing in the blog fantasy world for too long. Ask a frigging Islamic radical and I can guarantee he won’t blame it on President Carter.
And it’s true, Iran is Iraq’s “friend” if there ever was one and Iran’s president can indeed walk down the street in Iraq in broad daylight while our leaders can’t even show their f(*)ing faces here in America unless they get to hand-pick their “adoring public.” And even then, they have to clear the neighborhoods over a fifty-block radius so they don’t have to hear a discouraging word or bump into a crippled, brain-damaged veteran of The War Against Terror (T.W.A.T.).
I see roughly 20 comments here and the few pro-war-destroy-iran commentors in here do not represent the majority opinion in the US, and of all the millions and millions of internet users and blog readers here in America, there are very few rite-wingers who still believe in the rightness of the war in Iraq, and they all circulate through the same rite-wing blogs in order to make it appear that their numbers are legion.
Carter is set to visit Hamas. America will ultimately have to follow in his footsteps,negotiating at a disadvantage. Reagan did more for jihadism by funding it against the Soviet in Afghanistan.
Iran certainly regards America as most charitable right now.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hVVg2qKSPWp3rxpfwaJyo1wTjPbQ
the Iraqis, it’s clear from this article, regard the American occupiers as savage barbarians.
truthhard2take????
it’s unusual for someone to name themselves so correctly. truthhard2take finds it very difficult to accept the truth.
General William E Odom tells it like it is
The News Hour debate after the Petraeus/Crocker hearings, …. Odom was scathing of political progress in Iraq.
Lessons learned from Basra
MARGARET WARNER:
General Odom, let’s pick up on the major point of the focus of the hearing, which was Basra, and what are the lessons of the Maliki government offensive in Basra.
You heard Carl Levin say it showed the incompetence of the Maliki government. You heard General Petraeus say it wasn’t well-planned, but it actually showed their willingness to take on the extremists. What is your assessment of it?
GEN. WILLIAM ODOM: It showed how impossible it is to expect anything productive out of the Maliki government. Let me make a key point about this government: When this is all over, the people in the Green Zone now and the Maliki government will not be in charge.
The future successful government in Iraq is not one of our allies. It will be somebody who wins the civil war. And we’re trying to ally with all sides to prevent it.
When you say that the Lebanization of Iraq is taking place, yes, but not because of Iran, but because the U.S. went in and made this kind of fragmentation possible. And it has occurred over the last five years.
Another point, as you assess the overall strategy, is that we don’t have the forces to continue any significant large presence there indefinitely. We don’t have the Army to do anything about Iran if we wanted to, which would be a big mistake, the kind that Kissinger and Nixon made by widening the war in Vietnam in 1970 and ’80.
So any way you look at it, it’s grim. The idea that they will aggregate these groups of awakening communities up to a central government without great conflict — I don’t see any prospect — I don’t know any historical precedent for that.
“http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/military/jan-june08/iraq_04-08.html
http://www.antiwar.com/updates/?articleid=12664
Not a good day’s work, reconcilers. 7 US troops killed.
Odom is also a retired general who was against the war from the start an in fact, has stated that he considered the war lost the minute we decided to enter it. Sounds like a man who continuously needs to build a case for his original assessment.
7 dead, huh, Truthy? As a fan of Sadr’s patriotism you must be very proud today.
Clancy,
“Ask a frigging Islamic radical and I can guarantee he won’t blame it on President Carter.”
You go right on talking and believing all those Islamic radicals…it’s very clear where you stand and who you trust…as odious as that is.
That truly is the most ignorant comment to date.
And,
“And it’s true, Iran is Iraq’s “friend†if there ever was one and Iran’s president can indeed walk down the street in Iraq in broad daylight while our leaders can’t even show their f(*)ing faces here in America unless they get to hand-pick their “adoring public.†And even then, they have to clear the neighborhoods over a fifty-block radius so they don’t have to hear a discouraging word or bump into a crippled, brain-damaged veteran of The War Against Terror (T.W.A.T.).”
I sure don’t know where you live but wherever it is you really do need to get out more. You just go right on believing all those lefty blogs you read and keep repeating all the important talking points. The MSM media ought to hire you if you’re not part of them already.
And,
“there are very few rite-wingers who still believe in the rightness of the war in Iraq, and they all circulate through the same rite-wing blogs in order to make it appear that their numbers are legion.”
BWAAAAAHAAAAAAAA!
Whippet…speaking of that media…
http://biglizards.net/blog/archives/2008/04/abc_newsflash_1.html#trackbacks
I’d say the jig is up when your p0ll comes in this warped.
I get a kick out of the false premises being tossed about here. .. specifically the Iran and Iraq are friends nonsense. If these clowns hadn’t taken liberal history classes from Ward Churchill types they’d know the truth about the relationship between the two…specifically, the War of the Two Cities. It would be hard for history to find an uglier war.
minus 75
It’s not Odom who needs verification of his pre-war stand. It’s your war criminals Cheney, Wolfowitz, Perle and Feith who assured us all the war would be weeks or months long at most with oil proceeds paying the cost off by years’ end 2003.
Truthy….you want to back up that nonsense or are you just hyperventilating again? You have no evidence of any war crimes, you have no evidence of any promises of the war duration, you have no evidence of anyone saying the war would be paid off by 2003, and certainly, how can you make oil revenue claims before the revenues even start appearing? As for Odom, I think we found our chump who “does as he’s told”. What kind of a person accepts Odom’s claim of a lost war before waging it without even asking him how? You truly are a puppet.By the way, I see Odom worked with Brzinsky (sp?)…no wonder no one listened to him.
I’ve always wanted to ask this question of those who are using our brave heroes for their cause:
Do you think anyone volunteers to go into the military believing they WON’T see combat and therefore NOT be put at risk of dying for their country? I mean, does our military exist only for window dressing? What would they be if they didn’t fight for our freedom? A pleasure club? What gives?
To comment on our brave soldiers when one disses them at every turn is vulgar and repulsive. Just stop with the faux concern.
Truthie,
Pray tell, when did ” Cheney, Wolfowitz, Perle and Feith who assured us all the war would be weeks or months long at most”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030319-17.html
Link please to support your case. Not a synopsis of Bush’s speech from one of your favorite lefty sites but an actual transcript with the President’s own words.
I wouldn’t hold your breath, Whippet.
http://www.usatoday.com/educate/war28-article.htm
You really are uneducated warmongers, aren’t you? This is just for starters.
“Saddam Hussein’s offensive military capability, his capacity to threaten his neighbors, has been virtually eliminated. This is a very significant development.” April 2001.
http://web.archive.org/web/20041130090045/http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/pubs/soref/cheney.htm
War criminal Cheney sure changed his tune between April and October 2001, didn’t he? Crooks and liars, worse, Hague material.
Gee, Dumbass…what do you suppose happened between Aprril and October of 2001?