Newsweek: Cheney's staff intensely interested in intel suggesting Iran arming Taliban

[sabra]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19001199/site/newsweek/

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In the last few weeks, Cheney's staff have unexpectedly become more active participants in an interagency group that steers policy on Afghanistan, according to an official familiar with the internal deliberations. During weekly meetings of the committee, known as the Afghanistan Interagency Operating Group, Cheney staffers have been intensely interested in a single issue: recent intelligence reports alleging that Iran is supplying weapons to Afghanistan's resurgent Islamist militia, the Taliban, according to two administration officials who asked for anonymity when discussing internal meetings.

check out the headlines coming out of the MSM over the past week... It's deja vu all over again :crazy:

Document: Iran Caught Red-Handed Shipping Arms to Taliban

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/06/document_iran_c.html

Iran aids Afghanistan, but may have helped Taliban too: NATO general

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/11/asia/AS-GEN-Afghan-Iran.php

Iran is arming Taliban, U.S. envoy claims

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19190994

[BOSSHOG]

1. cheney's staff intensely interested in fixing more intel

If it does not say what dick wants then they'll just fix it. Incredibly amazing how much a war monger a chickenhawk can become.

[ShortnFiery]

2. Here we go again ... same old shit again ... marching down the avenue ...

bombing Iran before we're through. :grr: :nuke: :scared:

[AndyA]

3. Don't you just know that this possibility has Cheney walking around

with a hard on? Nothing gets him turned on like the possibility of war, death, and destruction. Think of all the no-bid contracts! Yippee!!

:sarcasm:

[sabra]

4. I must say the whole Iran arming the taliban did catch me by surprise

they are getting more creative.... they = neocons.

[Bucky]

11. Again, Bush shows he a uniter, not a divider.

I take any news of Iran helping the Talibani with a fat grain of salt. But that said, it does make a certain logistical sense for them to tie down American forces wherever they can.

I'll suggest that given the political mess that is Iran, it's much more likely that there are rogue factions within Iran doing this (the quasi-fascist Quds Force is suspect number one) rather than a deliberated policy. It makes mroe sense for Iran to patch up their differences with the Sadrists in Baghdad, but then there's no reason Iran can't help tie down US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is probably payback for the US supporting Sunni dissidents in southeast Iran and and Iraqi Kurd support for Kurdish separatists in northwest Iran.

While any Iranian support for the Talibani monsters is horrible and morally repugnant, it's not exactly unprovoked.
.

[rocktivity]

5. Well, duh.

:boring:
rocknation

[LSparkle]

6. Who is this "diplomat" Nicholas Burns? Is he another 33-year-old

with an oversized title?

[Kagemusha]

13. He's the guy in the State Department to keep Rice on her toes.

And to advance the neocon agenda.

To make a long story short.

[mike_c]

7. hey-- we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud...

...do we?

[LibertyorDeath]

8. Iran selling its Oil in Euros = Iran arming Taliban

It's neocon math.

[KharmaTrain]

10. Correctamundo!!

This game is to manipulate supply and demand and Iran isn't playing with the Sauds, Chenney and their other cronnies, thus they need to be shut down one way or another.

It's more the threat to Iran's oil that works for these crooks right now as any sabre rattling will make the price of oil jump and they all go to the bank. Uncertainty and instability are the keys to "maximizing profits" here and that's the only endgame this regime has played in that region.

[maddezmom]

9. Cheney's staff at the direction of Darth Vader just like in the Libby/Plame case

never ending war is the goal of the neocons......great portfolios all. :puke:

[BurtWorm]

12. In 2001, Iran offered to help the US by closing its border with Afghanistan

to ensure that the Taliban would not escape via the west. The Iranians could not have been thrilled to have the US fighting a war on its doorstep, but they were less thrilled with having the Taliban over there.

Of course, since then, they have the US fighting a war on two of its borders, and maybe they've calculated that the Taliban can't win, but they can continue to be a thorn in the US's side. How different the world would have been if the US had taken Iran's overtures seriously in 2001.

[lovuian]

14. Prepare for War

Cheney is on the war path

[driver8]

15. Cheney's staff busy making up intel to suggest that Iran is arming

Taliban...

Jesus H. Kriste -- is the media going to fall for this shit again?

[Botany]

16. Shi ites arming Sunnis?

I wonder if there is yellow cake involved?