Why is General Petraeus Helping Iran?

[ihavenobias]

Why is General Petraeus Helping Iran?
By Cenk Uygur

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/why-is-general-petraeus-h_b_95608.html

Someone should ask General Petraeus today why he is working so hard to help Iran. This is not to suggest he is some sort of enemy of the state. I suppose he is following orders, but why doesn't he question his wildly counterproductive and conflicting orders?

I hear him bemoaning Iranian influence in Iraq all the time. Yet, no one has helped Iran more inside Iraq than he has. We have lent the full force of our military might to the political faction and Shiite militia most closely associated with Iran.

Granted there aren't a lot of good guys in the different Iraqi militias (on the other hand, they don't have much reason to think we're swell, either). But why have we decided to back the most pro-Iranian militia in the whole country?

The Badr Corps is linked with the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI), which is the largest party inside Iraq. The Badr Corps also happens to be the militia with closest ties to Iran. http://www.newsweek.com/id/67924/page/2

They also happen to be the militia that ran those feared death squads during the ethnic cleansing of Baghdad. http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/16/iraq.main/index.html And get this - they are also the ones that want to split up Iraq instead of keeping it unified. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/06/AR2008040602430.html

All of these objectives seem to be diametrically opposed to what we want in Iraq. So why have we thrown all our military muscle behind them?...(For the Rest, please click here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/why-is-general-petraeus-h_b_95608.html )


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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Huh

you do start wondering what is really going on over there, don't you?

[OhioChick]

2. Sure Do.

K&R
:kick:

[ihavenobias]

3. No, I mean, the surge is working, right?

That's all you need to know.

;)

[OhioChick]

4. Why doesn't this have 5 votes, yet? n/t

[CherylK]

9. Yes! n/t

[Jack Rabbit]

5. To paraphrase Dr. Kissenger

(W)hy have we decided to back the most pro-Iranian militia in the whole country?

They may be pro-Iranian bastards, but they're our pro-Iranian bastards.

(If that doesn't make sense, it's because it's an explanation of Bush's policy, which never made any sense.)

[navarth]

6. We've been helping Iran all along, why should he be different?

We've removed their biggest enemy, Iraq.

[MadMaddie]

7. Patreus wants to prolong the war to protect his own ass...

Many crimes have happened under his watch and he is prolonging the invetible. The reason the Iraqi police force is sub-par is because Petreus was in charge.

This comes down once again to a less than mediocre leader put in charge. Our mena and women are suffering the consequences. Petreus does not know what he doing or if he does he is allowing the * admn to dicatte the path. Either way a collosal failure.

[ihavenobias]

8. True, they ALL want to prolong to war to protect their own asses. n/t