Iran Confirms Role In Brokering Iraq Truce

Senator Jim Webb said today on Face the Nation that when he was in Vietnam he never saw an enemy weapon that was not made by the Chinese or in Eastern Europe. That it why it is so surprising when we express disbelief that Iran is supplying weapons to the Iraqi resistance. When the Soviets fought the Afghans we supplied the Afghans. Thus, it is confusing now when we speak of attacking Iran for supplying weapons. Should we have attacked China during the Vietnam war? Did Russia consider attacking us when they fought the Afghans? It is a recipe for constant warmongering and always attacking the next perceived enemy.

U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker said last Thursday that he wasn't sure the Iranians were instrumental in convincing al-Sadr to stop fighting "or whether they just didn't stop him from doing it."

Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in organized competition, a completed "triple-speak"!

George Orwell, where art thou?

God forbid that Bush and Co admit that Iran did something good. It would put a damper in their plan for Middle east domination. Now if they can just link Iran to 911 somehow, they would have it made.

Iraq and Iran were once bitter enemies. Fortunately, Bush, the uniter, has brought them together and they now almost ask if they were the same country. Iraq has fallen under the umbrella of Iran and we now may as well start removing our troops and let events play themselves out. Perhaps Al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, is a channel for us to open up negotiations with Iran on various topics.

The Neocons have always intended to attack Iran, they just need to come up with a reason to sell the American people. After the debacle in Iraq, Americans are finally waking up. Remember the NIE that said Iran was not constituting nuclear weapons? We had almost non stop warnings from this administration about the imminent threat and poof- our own intelligence agencies leaked the threat was as bogus as Saddam's WMD's. Ask yourself, why would Iran antagonize us? They know this administration has an itchy nuke finger aimed at them. Why would they do that? They wouldn't and they haven't. Just like the run up to Iraq, all the threats were manufactured. They are doing it again.

Pictures of Iran our media will never show you
http://www.lucasgray.com/video/peacetrain.html

What a shame that sources with ties to Iran are more believable than our own government. Would anyone have ever dreamed that America would ever find itself in this position. America with a rogue government. And bin Laden still lives in safety. Unbelievable indeed.

So Iranians are peace brokers? What's next Arafat will get the Nobel Peace Prize?

This war was illegal and unfortunately Iran is waging "Charlie's War" against us and this administration has another agenda which does not include helping the Iraqis not the American people.

Impeach Now!

This is surreal, the Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, its Alice in Wonderland and we've fallen down the Rabbit Hole. The "conspiracy theorists" have been right, and as time passes its going to become more clear, on just how diabolical, how "straight from hell" this administration has been. Its the perfect storm of a group of Sociopaths taking over our country...and we have yet to pull them out of the white house..and march them to Prison...

Mission accomplished! (Oil over $100 per barrel)

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It's always Easy to push a button and drop Bombs when you are not capable of thinking ........ even a monkey can do it.

But it is hard to use your brain, think and negotiate.

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yet another reason to bomb iran... how dare they bring peace to our illegal war!

So the net net of the Bush War in Iraq is that we took out Saddam - who kept Iran in check and put in Ahmadinajad's buddy Maliki so that he could unite Iraq and Iran and have all that oil AND the nukes. Great strategy Bush. congratulations. You make Saddam look like peace maker. what an aZZ

SO, briefly stated....American Soldiers were fighting shoulder to shoulder with Iranian backed armed forces...That'll confuse 'em in Kansas.
I think it's easier without all the wordy obfuscation. You're welcome.

The waste.
Shia solidarity is necessary for the eventual take over of Iraq, and expansion of Iranian influence in the region. Iran is not singing, Give Peace a Chance. Iran is regrouping, organizing, setting the scene. If Iraq is peaceful enough, then there is all the more reason to insist the US leave, but there is no reason to have the US leave until Iran has enough influence. Iran might demand now for US withdrawal, but they know that will not happen, so they play the game and try to take control of as many chess pieces as possible. Remember, this was going to be easy. But Bush wanted private contractors, which cost a lot of money; and Cheney wanted private contractors which cost a lot of money; and the dearly departed Rumsfeld wanted a business model with too few military personnel, not quite correctly equipped, and too little military equipment and supplies. Too many games being played, too much money being made. Peace would have cost less. Never go into a war without adequate resources. You go to war with the army you have, but we had more of an army, et cetera than we used. Now the misspent lives are well worn. I had no idea how the GWB incompetence would harm even our military. The waste. Mark John Hunter Alpena.

One more blow to the Bush administration. Iran calls the shots as I can see and this is truly the end of the story. We Americans have been duped by a foreign policy full of mistakes, lies and deceptions. The only winners here are Syria and Iran. Iraq will only flourish when our soldiers come home with the corresponding deserved dignity. Our soldiers are fighting a battle that does not corresponds to them in history terms.

This administration has blown out many opportunities to solve this debacle and again, with the surge, has been able to realize that it is over. Bush in his insanity continues, like Hitler, to believe that he can win this war. Bush, after leaving office, will become the new Saddam of Iraq.

Incredible. Iran has more say in Iraq than the US 155,000 troops and an estimated at 200,000 'civilian contractors.'

Time to call it a day, and hand over the keys to Iran. It certainly can keep order better than the US can - even after the US engaged the Basra insurgents from the air and with at least 500 troops - according to NPR this morning.

Not only did we screw up the occupation, but we helped the enemy of the adminsitration and its allies in the region.

Fantastic. We await with abated breath the victories General Betrayus will carry with him to Congress.

The Taliban is OUR bastard, morphed from the jihadists and Al Quidas from the Pakistani Madrases, that we armed and supported against the Russians in Afghanistan. The Iranians hold no briefs for the Taliban and is quite prepared to stand back and watch the American and the Taliban destroy each other.

When its a Sunni/ Al Quida vs US conflict they stay the hell out. However,the Hakim's Badrs and the Muqtada's Sadrs are Shiites so Iran sees no benefit in a Shiite vs Shiite conflict. Iraq is a quagmire because the US can't fight it's way out but must negotiate an exit strategy. There is no UN to draw up any agreement since the war is illegal and the coalition of the dummies have long since disbanded. Bush is unable to do so without losing face so he plans to leave it all to the new President, presumably a Democrat will have to sign some sort peace treaty, since we have already lost and the troops are there like fish in a barrel.

Iran brokered a truce imagine that. What would be wrong with our next POTUS attempting a tough no nonsense dialogue with such a government?

Failure is an orphan, but everyone wants to take credit for success. The Iraqi governament with US support defeated al Sadr's forces. Once al Sadr surrendered, everyone try to claim credit, even to the extent of the surrender monkeys trying to spin this as a victory for the enemy. It doesn't wash, the Surge is working.