Iraq & Iran are allies now - has anyone asked the Bushies about this?

[ihaveaquestion]

Iraq's dangerous new friend

To me, this is a HUGE setback for the Bushies, but I haven't seen much on it at DU and I haven't heard of anyone asking Scottie or * about it. Has the question been asked?

Edit: working link - http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9513.htm

[Cocoa]

1. major development that's being ignored

history-changing happenings in the middle east.

edit: Billmon.org noticed...



http://billmon.org/archives/002030.html

[trotsky]

2. Let's see...

Iran, Iraq, N. Korea - the "Axis of Evil"

Iraq is "liberated" and then becomes an ally of a nation still in the "Axis of Evil."

Um, what did we accomplish again?

[ihaveaquestion]

3. Help, please. How do I fix my link?

[nine23]

4. Take out the http//

[ihaveaquestion]

7. It doesn't have the http//

the code seems to be removing part of the site name - the letters "form" are missing ...
changing "informationclearinghouse" to "inationclearinghouse"

When I edit it the letters are there. When posted the letters are missing. Strange!
:shrug:

[cyberpj]

5. I posted this article here and in GD a while ago -

not a peep in US press -

Iraq Signs Military Pact with Iran

Headlines : International
Iraq Signs Military Pact with Iran
Thu, 7 Jul 2005 22:11:20 -0700Summary:

Here’s an update: The “democratically elected” government of Iraq, much-ballyhooed by the Bush adminstration and its toadies, has signed an agreement of military cooperation with current Bush public enemy number one, Iran.

In other news, 100 “democratically elected” members of the Iraqi parliament have signed a petition demanding that the US withdraw its forces from Iraq immediately.


By Neil MacDonald in Baghdad and Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran
Republished from Financial Times

Iraq signs a pact in Tehran agreeing to accept Iranian military training and other cooperation.

Former foes Iraq and Iran announced “a new chapter” in their relations on Thursday, including cross-border military co-operation, dismissing US concerns about Iranian regional meddling.

On his first official visit to Tehran, Iraqi minister of defence Saadoun al-Dulaimi asserted his country’s sovereign right to seek help from wherever it sees fit in rebuilding its defence capabilities.

“Nobody can dictate to Iraq its relations with other countries,” Mr Dulaimi said in a joint press conference with his Iranian counterpart, Admiral Ali Shamkhani.

The two ministers said that a military co-operation agreement, now in the preparation, would include Iranian help with training and upgrading Iraq’s reconstituted armed forces, a process so far overseen by US and coalition advisers.


http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/3670/Iraq_Signs_Military_Pact_with_Iran

[bearfan454]

6. delete

[ihaveaquestion]

8. Arianna Huffington agrees.

This is BIG NEWS - everywhere but in the U.S!

Iraq: The War We Are Not Being Shown

" Take Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari’s lovefest visit to Tehran on Sunday, where he laid a wreath on the tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini and hailed what he called “a new chapter in brotherly ties” between Iran and Iraq. Now, by all rights, this should have been a major story in the U.S. Here you have the leader of the new government we’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars creating in Iraq making very nice with the terror-funding and nuke-building mullahs in Iran. So this is what our soldiers are putting their lives on the line for -- 1,770 killed so far -- a budding alliance between fundamentalist theocracies?"

[canadianbeaver]

10. this is totally unbelievable.....the world is soooo screwed....n/t

[LiviaOlivia]

9. The Iranians get everything

they want from the Republicans -- arms-for-hostages, rid of the Taliban, rid of Saddam, a Shia superstate in southern Iraq, rid of Syria from Lebanon.

[Disturbed]

11. Ignore what they don't like...

and hope no one notices. This is one of the ways the Bush Regime operates.

By waging a war against the Sunnis the Bush Regime is aiding Iran.

[bloom]

12. It is amazing what isn't news over here.... eom