MSNBC: Senior U.S. military officials claim Iran is trying to ruin the "surge"

[sabra]

http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/30/961145.aspx

Over a meal this weekend at a Green Zone chow hall (chicken salad and Baskin-Robbins pralines and cream ice cream, a KBR delight), I had a revealing conversation with two senior U.S. military officials.

"We've pretty much defeated al-Qaida here," one of the military officers said. "If Iran stopped doing what it's doing, things would dramatically change."

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The surge has become something sacred for the military in Iraq. It was a plan that worked. It has been entered into the annals of history – at least here – as a success, not to be questioned. The commanders I spoke to this weekend were angry Iran, they claim, is trying to ruin their surge.

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The problem, however, is that Iran is only the U.S. military's latest enemy in Iraq. It is only the latest spoiler here. There have been others, each considered vital at the time; yet the war continues.

U.S. Enemies:

2003: Saddam Hussein and his alleged weapons of mass destruction and supposed alliance to al-Qaida.

2004-2005: Sunni insurgents, former Baath party members and Syria, all of whom allegedly wanted to stop democracy and freedom.

2006-2007: Sectarian gangs, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's "al-Qaeda in Iraq."

2008: Iran's "Special Groups," militias backed by Iran's Revolutionary Guards

Is this the end? Is Iran, as U.S. military officials suggest, the lynchpin to success in Iraq? Or is it just the flavor of the month?

[Winterblues]

1. I suspect it won't be long until we find Weapons made in Venezuela

and "date stamped" 2008.

[L. Coyote]

2. Why would anyone believe "Senior U.S. military officials claim" about anything

given their record of LIES and repeating political propaganda. They are tools taking orders from LIARS!

[marmar]

3. Man, they're trying desperately to create some faux "casus belli" .....

.... If the American public falls for this BS again....... :mad: