General Petraeus

Peter Wehner

“We have our teeth in their jugular — and we need to keep them there.” -- General Petraeus on Al Qaeda

While Michael Ledeen warns: The Continuing Iran-American War

General Petraeus quickly and explicitly blamed Iran for the attacks. “The rockets that were launched at the Green Zone… were Iranian-provided, Iranian-made rockets…All of this in complete violation of promises made by President Ahmadinejad and the other most senior Iranian leaders to their Iraqi counterparts.”
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Similar remarks about the nefarious Iranian role in Iraq came from Petraeus’ former deputy, General Raymond Odierno, just two weeks ago in Washington. He wryly observed that Iranian President Ahmadinejad felt secure in Baghdad because the attacks there were under Iranian guidance and control.

The Shi’ite militias and al Qaeda in are also closely tied to Iran. Many of the news reports wrongly suggest that the Shi’ite insurgents are under the leadership of Moqtadah al Sadr, the son of a murdered leading cleric and for several years the chieftain of the private Mahdi Army, named after the Shi’ite Messiah. He and his troops were famously armed, paid and trained by Iran, and were as feared as al Qaeda, whose late leader, Abu Musab Zarqawi, long operated out of Tehran and worked closely with Hezbollah’s late chief terrorist, Imad Mughniyah.
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Iran, then, is the common denominator of recent events in Iraq: the mullahs organized the rocket attacks in Baghdad, they have supported al Qaeda in Iraq from the beginning, and they have a major role in the activities of the Shi’ite militias.
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I think General Petraeus is trying to force the Bush Administration to recognize these hard facts and act accordingly. He is saying that we cannot accomplish our objectives in Iraq without challenging the regime in Tehran.

Iran ramps up production of enriched uranium they don't need for nuclear plants they doesn't have... and Barack Hussein Obama squeals appease:

"Because if Maliki can tolerate as normal neighbor-to-neighbor relations in Iraq, then we should be talking to them, as well. I do not believe we are going to be able to stabilize the position without them."

Now we know why Barack Che' Hussein Obama's "church" publishes articles by Iran's proxy-killers of Hamas.

Cross Posted at DANEgerus