After the surge ... what next?

[cal04]

President Bush, under fire for sending 20,000 extra troops into Iraq, is now ready to target Iran for the chaos in Baghdad and beyond

Baghdad's Residency Office, a bustling maze of corridors and smoky rooms, is a place of Kafkaesque bureaucracy. Controlled by a Shia political party, it means foreigners who do not want to pay a bribe shuffle from desk to desk to get the signatures, stamps and counter signatures, and then more stamps, required to leave the country. Only one group is rushed through without a cursory glance: agents who breeze through with arms laden with stacks of passports. All of them from Iran.


Some are pilgrims to Shia holy sites whom you see streaming across the Shatt al-Arab waterway in the heavily laden ferries at festival time and plying the motorways in packed minibuses. Others are returning exiles, many of whose families hold only Iranian passports. Others are diplomats and businessmen.

But in the past few months, George W Bush, has signed a presidential order targeting another group that his administration alleges is in Iraq: Iranians - Revolutionary Guards and intelligence officers. Iran, the Shia state, is destabilising Iraqi politics and co-ordinating attacks on US forces by Shia insurgents, claim the Americans

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While it is true that the sophisticated plugs of machine-pressed steel and copper, that US military intelligence officials believe arrive in Baghdad in kit form for assembly, are being produced in someone's factory what is not so certain is where it is. Indeed, there is strong evidence that many are produced locally. Questions have also been raised over the widespread claims by senior British and US officers that the devices are being smuggled from Iran. British troops patrolling the border last autumn insisted to several journalists that in months of patrolling they had found no evidence of the devices coming across.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1989912,00.html

[Robert P]

1. It fails.

That is what happens after the surge, it fails.

[MadMaddie]

2. Yes Robert P you are correct...

as it has the last time and the time before....

And in the process many US soldiers and what remains of Iraqi civilians will be slaughtered....

The story itself that Iran is sending people over the border does not constitute a reason to go to war with a country-even is the US dislikes them...this is even weaker than the mushroom cloud, WMD's blah, blah, blah..

The boy who cried wolf...and the world is not listening anymore...

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