bush, Foiled Again!
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bush is doing everything he can to provoke war with Iran. Trouble is, Iran isn’t playing into his hands. Seems that bush has been plotting to have the Iranians blamed for smuggling weapons into Iraq, only there aren’t any Iranian weapons to be found… What’s a guy to do when the other side isn’t cooperating???
If you ask me, bush would do much better setting his sights closer to home. But he, bush, lives in an alternate reality…
From CommonDreams.org we have this story:
Bogus Claim, al-Maliki Stall US Plan on Iran Arms
by Gareth Porter
WASHINGTON, May 14 - Early this month, the george w. bush administration’s plan to create a new crescendo of accusations against Iran for allegedly smuggling arms to Shiite militias in Iraq encountered not just one but two setbacks.
The government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki refused to endorse U.S. charges of Iranian involvement in arms smuggling to the Mahdi Army, and a plan to show off a huge collection of Iranian arms captured in and around Karbala had to be called off after it was discovered that none of the arms were of Iranian origin.
The news media’s failure to report that the arms captured from Shiite militiamen in Karbala did not include a single Iranian weapon shielded the U.S. military from a much bigger blow to its anti-Iran strategy.
The bush administration and top Iraq commander Gen. David Petraeus had plotted a sequence of events that would build domestic U.S. political support for a possible strike against Iran over its “meddling” in Iraq especially and its alleged export of arms to Shiite militias.
The plan was keyed to a briefing document to be prepared by Petraeus on the alleged Iranian role in arming and training Shiite militias that would be surfaced publicly after the al-Maliki government had endorsed it and it used to accuse Iran publicly.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, told reporters on Apr. 25 that Petraeus was preparing a briefing to be given “in the next couple of weeks” that would provide detailed evidence of “just how far Iran is reaching into Iraq to foment instability”. The centrepiece of the Petraeus document, completed in late April, was the claim that arms captured in Basra bore 2008 manufacture dates on them.
U.S. officials also planned to display Iranian weapons captured in both Basra and Karbala to reporters. That sequence of media events would fill the airwaves with spectacular news framing Iran as the culprit in Iraq for several days, aimed at breaking down Congressional and public resistance to the idea that Iranian bases supporting the meddling would have to be attacked.
By the way, the hack job is mine, not the articles. I refuse to give governor bush any credit he isn’t due. And he isn’t due any. He is a very, very bad man.
Perhaps it was the media and the Pentagon propaganda and their pundits that is so unpopular right now that helped to make this NOT happen? Anyway, the “evidence” didn’t manifest and so this incident didn’t happen. But it only goes to show the extent to which this administration is willing to go to get what it wants, even with the limited time that bush has left to be in office. Anyway, I went looking for more information on this article. But you really need to read the rest of the story. It is VERY informative!
From the LosAngelesTimes we have this story to go along with the first one.
Iraq sends mixed message on Iran, weapons
At first, spokesman Ali Dabbagh backs away from accusations over its neighbor supplying Shiite militants with arms. But later, he says proof exists and a committee is investigating.
BAGHDAD — Prime Minister Nouri Maliki’s spokesman backed away Sunday from Iraqi officials’ accusations of Iranian interference, saying that a committee had been formed to determine whether there is merit to U.S. charges that its eastern neighbor is arming and training Shiite Muslim militants here.
But hours later, spokesman Ali Dabbagh told journalists that his comments at a news conference had been misinterpreted. In a telephone call with Reuters news agency, he said proof existed and the committee’s job was to compile the evidence to submit to Iran.
The conflicting statements, after meetings with Iranian officials in Tehran, reflect the difficult position in which Maliki finds himself as he attempts to juggle relations with two powerful allies who are intense rivals.
“We have no choice but to have good relations with the neighboring countries,” Dabbagh said. “We do not want to be pushed into a conflict with a country like Iran.”
U.S. officials had in recent weeks trumpeted the discovery of large quantities of Iranian weapons, some of them manufactured in 2008. The purported finds have not been shown to the media. But if true, they would suggest that Iran had not kept a promise to Maliki to help cut the supply of arms, funding and training to Iraqi militants.
Iraq, of course, is caught in the middle. That must be a horrible spot to be in. Being occupied by one huge, powerful country while trying to keep another from doing anything and assuring them you remain friendly? A rock and a hard spot for sure. And of course, not everyone agrees with Maliki’s government.
One dissenting view stated:
Iranian leaders, who deny providing backing to Iraqi militants, were furious at officials here for publicly airing their concerns. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammed Ali Hosseini was quoted last week in the official Islamic Republic News Agency as “lambasting such undocumented and fabricated allegations” that he said were intended to “serve the policies of the occupying forces” — a reference to U.S. troops.
And that is absolutely correct. The USA IS doing everything it can do to cause a war with Iran. It is manipulating facts and evidence to suit its purposes, filling the airwaves with sound bites from those who do not have an opinion of their own but simply spew into our ears what the Pentagon WANTS us to hear and know, NOT the TRUTH. And, freezing Iranian financial muscle so that the country is virtually cut off from everyone else. Can you imagine that happening here? Anyone buying into this shit has drunk WAY too much Kool-Aid… Propaganda is ILLEGAL in this country but the bush administration is above the law.
The bush administration LIES! None of this is real. And while I can’t imagine WHY bush is so hot for war with Iran, I do know that he lusts after it like most men lust after women. (My apologies to the GLTB Community… I am not intending to exclude you.)
Al-Dabbagh made it clear that the government considered the U.S. evidence of Iranian government arms smuggling insufficient. “The proof we have is weapons which are shown to have been made in Iran,” al-Dabbagh said in a separate interview with Reuters. “We want to trace back how they reached [Iraq], who is using them, where are they getting it.”
Senior U.S. military officials were clearly furious with al-Maliki for backtracking on the issue. “We were blindsided by this,” one of them told Zavis.
Then the bush administration’s campaign on Iranian arms encountered another serious problem. The Iraqi commander in Karbala had announced on May 3 that he had captured a large quantity of Iranian arms in and around that city.
Earlier the U.S. military had said that it was up to the Iraqi government to display captured Iranian weapons, but now an Iraqi commander was eager to show off such weapons. Petraeus’ staff alerted U.S. media to a major news event in which the captured Iranian arms in Karbala would be displayed and then destroyed.
But when U.S. munitions experts went to Karbala to see the alleged cache of Iranian weapons, they found nothing that they could credibly link to Iran.
What is behind the bush obsession with Iran? Why does he want war with them so badly that he is again willing to lie and manufacture evidence, even when none exists, so he can have his way? Is it just that he wants his way? His approval rating right now is at 19%. I don’t know of another man who has ever been in the White House whose approval rating has been so low. I’m not even sure who these 19% are! I just can’t imagine having my head so far into the sand that I think this man and his ideas are good! But then I still believe in the Constitution and the Bill or Rights, silly Me!
According to our Constitution, bush should have been impeached LONG ago! His despicable spying on Americans violates our 4th Amendment rights which states:
AMENDMENT IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated; and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
How can we be secure in our persons, houses, papers, and effects when the bush
administration taps our phones, our internet, and our emails? And to make matters worse, there are those nasty NSLs, National Security Letters which gag whomever they are given to so that you don’t get to know if they are prying into your business. So I really want to know how this is even legal? And he does it claiming it is a matter of National Security. BULLSHIT!!! Now I could understand it if there was evidence to support such a thing happening, but his people are doing data-mining! That is fishing in a lake to see what you come up with!!! It means we are all guilty before being proven innocent. Why is this happening? And why does bush want war with Iran so badly?
Now, one part that I found VERY INTERESTING in several papers written different ways was this:
Another adviser to Maliki, Haider Abadi, told the Los Angeles Times’ Alexandra Zavis that Iranian officials had given the delegation evidence disproving the charges. “For us to be impartial, we have to investigate,” Abadi said.
Iranian officials, who have endorsed Maliki’s crackdown on Shiite militias, say the U.S. is trying to make them the scapegoat for troubles with curbing the violence in Iraq.
A senior advisor to Maliki, Haider Abadi, said Iranian leaders told the Iraqi delegation that they would not be so foolish as to send in weapons with Iranian markings and had offered evidence of their own to disprove the charges. He did not specify what the evidence was.
Now, can you imagine what it would be like for us if say we were invaded and someone was trying to frame Canada for importing weapons into this country? That’s exactly the scenario that is occurring in Iraq. They cannot afford yet ANOTHER WAR with their neighbors, yet that is what the United States is pushing them to do. In all honesty, I’d balk too! It is just an untenable position for Iraq to be in.
This administration is just plain evil. That it continues, abetted by Congress, means that ALL of Washington needs to be replaced.
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