Paul Craig Roberts: The Petraeus and Crocker Show

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http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts04052008.html

"April 5, 2008. Today the London Telegraph reported that "British officials gave warning yesterday that America's commander in Iraq will declare that Iran is waging war against the US-backed Baghdad government. A strong statement from General David Petraeus about Iran's intervention in Iraq could set the stage for a US attack on Iranian militiary facilities, according to a Whitehall assessment." The neocon lacky Petraeus has had his script written for him by Cheney, and Petraeus together with neocon warmonger Ryan Crocker, the US governor of the Green Zone in Baghdad, will present Congress next Tuesday and Wednesday with the lies, for which the road has been well paved by neocon propagandists such as Kimberly Kagan, that "the US must recognize that Iran is engaged in a full-up proxy war against it in Iraq." Don't expect Congress to do anything except to egg on the attack. ..."

The London Telegraph article is available at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/05/wiran105.xml

[jimshoes]

1. Someone has got to say no

to these lunatics. If the lemming congress won't do it who's left?