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Is the Troop Surge for Iraq, or Iran?
Friday, January 26th, 2007 | Middle East |
I’m starting to wonder if everything is as it appears with the calls for increased troops in Iraq. Ahmadinejad keeps making fierce noises about Iran’s nuclear program. It’s possible the extra troops are a chess move to intimidate him into concessions on Iran’s nuclear program, or at least to be less of a loudmouth. It’s easy to know what’s said at press conferences and in press releases. It’s harder to know what’s happening behind the scenes.
6 Comments to Is the Troop Surge for Iraq, or Iran?
Like the dude said:
January 26, 2007
We’re overextended already, we don’t have enough people in the military because that idiot Rumsfeld, to quote Senator John McCain, the worse Secretary of Defense since John McNamara, downsized our military and now we have to fight Iran too…
>>It’s harder to know what’s happening behind the scenes.
I agree with this statement completely, which makes me wonder why we as the public and the media are so quick to judge what is going on. I don’t know either way what is truly going on because there is so much classified information that cannot be shared. Those in charge have to be trusted with that information to make the best decisions based upon that information. I know I will be blasted as some right-wing Bush lover for this comment, but I feel that any administration has to be trusted in this situation based upon the information they know that we do not.
January 26, 2007
I feel that any administration has to be trusted in this situation based upon the information they know that we do not.
Why not? It turned out fabulously the last time we did it.
just now, bush authorized troops to counter iranian agents in iraq.
spooky
January 26, 2007
An aircraft carrier was deployed to the Persian Gulf a couple weeks ago, and it was publicly acknowledged that it was going there to intimidate Iran. British and American officials have been quoted saying that Iranian spies have infiltrated both countries’ governments and are only now being discovered. The man who was the primary source for the now discredited information used to justify invading Iraq ended up getting kicked off the CIA payroll after tipping off Iran to our ability to decrypt what they thought were secure communications.
Not only is there good reason to wonder whether Bush is leading us to a much bigger war (they have tanks and planes and equipped, experienced troops), there is also reason to wonder whether being suckered into it.
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