[Rhodes22-list] Iraq-It Is Still There

[john Belanger]

one little detail i picked up recently stated that one of the first things koumeni did when he took over iran after the fall of the shah was restart the nuclear research facility. iran under the shah being an ally of the west, where do you suppose the shah got his nuke program? what i always say is if something doesn't make sense, it's because you don't have all the facts. 

DCLewis1 at aol.com wrote:  
It’s interesting that we’re starting to hear more and more about the 
terrible threat Iran poses. To me, the Iranian stories parallel a ramp-up in 
internal US propaganda prior to the invasion of Iraq. For example we hear that Iran 
is sending IED materials to Iraq - and that’s certainly a terrible thing. 
Oh, and they have WMD!

Interesting story, I think it appeared in Mondays WSJ, if memory serves it 
was the top story on pg A6, - you will NEVER GUESS who’s harboring, 
sponsoring, and supplying terrorists in Iraq that move across the border to do their 
dirty deeds in Iran in an effort to destabilize the Iranian government. Well, 
maybe you would guess. I’ve found a related editorial on the web using the 
search terms MeK WSJ, you may find other material: 
_http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2007/06/25/why-iran-us-stand-far-apart/?mod=hpp
_us_blogs_ 
(http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2007/06/25/why-iran-us-stand-far-apart/?mod=hpp_us_blogs) 

It’s OK if we send terrorists and explosives into Iran, but it’s absolutely 
NOT OK if they do it to us - right? 

Seems to me we’ve got more than our hands full with Iraq (MilBlogger 
optimism about “all the good things happening” notwithstanding). Cordoning off the 
border to Iran might be a good start, but probing into Iran with 
irregulars/terrorists seems like a good way to enlarge a conflict we’re demonstrably not 
winning. With the ramp-up in internal US propaganda and our support for 
terrorists/irregulars inside Iran, I’m a little concerned that enlarging the 
conflict is the name of the neocon game.

You might want to read the article at your lib, if you don’t have Mon’s WSJ 
handy, as I recall it goes into much more detail than the web link. 

DaveL




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