US accuses Iran and Syria of trying to destabilize Iraq

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

UNITED NATIONS - The United States is accusing Iran and Syria of trying to destabilize Iraq.

U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad told the U.N. Security Council on Monday that Iranian-backed groups have launched numerous attacks on Iraqi civilians and multinational forces this year.

He cites estimates suggesting that 90 percent of foreign terrorists enter Iraq through Syria.

In a report to the council on behalf of the multinational forces, Khalilzad says Iran and Syria must stop sending weapons and foreign fighters into Iraq.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080428/ap_on_re_mi_ea/un_iraq

[LakeSamish706]

1. One can hear the war drums beating day after day with the Bush Administration at the helm. n/t

[saigon68]

14. bANG ---BOOM BOOM

No problem its just the Chimp
Shiting in his own nest

[Bozita]

2. Ha. We did that already. We're number one.

USA, USA, USA.

[dbackjon]

5. My thoughts exactly

We already did a damn good job of destabilizing Iraq...

[frylock]

3. pure comedy gold

[OhioChick]

4. The War Drums are Beating....

Need another war to stimulate the economy. :sarcasm:

[maddezmom]

7. bush going with a big bang against his Axis of Evil

or bolton's or a mixture of the two. :crazy:

[Amonester]

20. Since McSame cannot win by himself...

The war criminals will start WWIII before November, and then claim that only a "war hero" can be an "effective" C-in-C in a time of war.

Then their bought-and-sold m$m shills will echo their B.S. catapult over 'n over again...

What other hopes of "winning" mc$ame can ever have?

These war criminals R so easy to predict...

Why can't the Dems in Congress read PNAC??

[magellan]

6. September 2007: Fewer Foreigners Crossing Into Iraq from Syria to Fight

The number of foreign fighters entering Iraq from Syria has decreased noticeably in recent months, corresponding to a similar decrease in suicide bombings and other attacks by the group al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to U.S. military and intelligence officials.

"There is an early indication of a trend," said Gen. David H. Petraeus, the U.S. commander in Iraq, in an interview. Border crossings from Syria that averaged 80 to 90 a month have fallen to "half or two-thirds of that over the last two or three months," Petraeus said.

An intelligence official said that "the Syrians do appear to be mounting a crackdown on some of the most hardened terrorists transiting through the country, particularly al-Qaeda-affiliated foreign fighters." The official, who was not authorized to speak on the record, said there is also evidence that the Syrians have been stopping return crossings by foreign fighters leaving Iraq.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/15/AR2007091501345.html

Or how about this from November 2007:

Foreign Fighters in Iraq Are Tied to Allies of U.S.
By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
Published: November 22, 2007

Saudi Arabia and Libya were the source of about 60 percent of the foreign fighters who came to Iraq in the past year to facilitate attacks.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/22/world/middleeast/22fighters.html

What's really going on here appears to be that last year's propaganda to show the surge was working has turned into this year's propaganda to bomb Syria and/or Iran.

[bemildred]

8. Don't you have to be stable in the first place ot get "destabilized"?

The last time Iraq was stable was the day before we invaded.

[Prophet 451]

9. Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran

Could they possibly make this anymore obvious?

[sakabatou]

10. *boom*

There goes my irony meter.

[raystorm7]

11. You already destabilize Iraq youself, jacka$$ Bush administration WTF!

[Xenotime]

12. How could the do any worse than what we did?

[thunder rising]

13. What? Like the US hasn't absolutely done all that and more?

[dysfunctional press]

15. i hope they added a 'rimshot' when they said so...

ba-dum-pa...
"we're here all century, try the veal..."

[HuffleClaw]

16. bwahhhahhahhaaaa

how many of those listening managed to keep a straight face?

poor schmo likely has no clue what a complete tool he is.

[LynnTheDem]

17. I'm sorry...WHO "destabilized" Iraq???

Good fucking grief, get rid of these MFing assholes already!!!

[bdamomma]

18. HeLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

fools on the HILL, in DC, we have WAR CRIMINALS here.

anyone listening.

[Crowman1979]

19. Well if Iran is making Iraq so unstable...

...then why were Maliki and Ahmadinejād holding hands a few months ago?!?!

[KansDem]

21. This...from Bush's "Secretary of Irony"

I thought the neo-cons were against any new federal departments...