Neighboring Nations Anger Iraq Official(obliged to take a decisive stance)

[maddezmom]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq (news - web sites)'s deputy prime minister expressed growing impatience Tuesday with neighboring countries for not doing enough to keep foreign fighters from joining the insurgency here.



Barham Saleh, speaking to the Iraqi National Council, did not specify which countries were to blame, although he said Monday that Iraqi police had arrested a Syrian citizen driving a car bomb packed with artillery shells and other explosives.


"There is evidence indicating that some groups in some neighboring countries are playing a direct role in the killing of the Iraqi people and such thing is not acceptable to us," Saleh said, adding that talks with foreign leaders to stop the problem had gotten nowhere.


"In my opinion, we have reached a stage in which if we do not see a real response from those countries, then we are obliged to take a decisive stance," Saleh said, without giving details.

more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=1&u=/ap/20041207/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

So is "Iraq's Army" going to go to war with it's neighbors?? :eyes:

[Seldona]

1. Give me a break.

Like any country can control 100% of it's citizens.

Unless they have information they are not sharing, their assertions that these governments are involved is ludicrous.

Meanwhile they ignore Saudi Arabia and Pakistan who were actively involved in financing terror, as well as selling nukes top the highest bidder.

Which was just about everyone BUT Iraq!

How are these people supposed to win the war on terror when we ally with the damn people who are behind it all?

pfft

[maddezmom]

2. Isn't Iraq(US Military) responsible for securing it's own borders???

just like the * misadministration...the puppet gov't response is to blame everyone else.

[rodeodance]

3. The US installed governmental officials in Irag us the language of the

Bush Administration!

[Rose Siding]

4. It would serve the bushies and the puppet govt...

if Iraqis can be convinced they are "under attack" by their neighbors. Should a nationalistic sense kick in (there is that not so distant history of war with Iran), it might act as a unifying factor.

But I don't believe anything will counteract their disgust with the US.

[leesa]

5. Another attempt to drag Syria into a war

This is most likely US propaganda.

[maddezmom]

6. of course it is...and using the puppet gov't to make the threat

[maddezmom]

8. actually, I suppose he just had Abazaid's back

Abizaid said he was particularly concerned about the situation in Mosul, where former Baathists loyal to deposed leader Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) and members of Jordanian militant Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi's Al-Qaeda-linked group are putting up fierce resistance.


"Baathists seem to think that they can temporarily make an alliance of convenience with Zarqawi and Al-Qaeda," said the general, who accused Syria of giving the Baathists a haven for establishing financial networks and smuggling people and weapons into Iraq.


The general nonetheless found it "encouraging" that, "despite the very high levels of intimidation, ... there are plenty of people within the Sunni Arab community who are coming forward, both politically and militarily, to play a role in the future of their country."


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041207/pl_afp/us_iraq_vote_military&cid=1521&ncid=1480

[Just Me]

7. Yup,...Syria and Iran which are both on the PNAC agenda.

I suspect the propaganda will really get going after the holidays. Then, there'll likely be a military strike on Iran's nuclear plant.

[maddezmom]

9. APchanges the headline- Iraq Official Rips Neighbors on Insurgency

and adds all the days "bad" news

[Just Me]

10. Oh yeah,...that sounds much better. n/t