Rumsfeld admits Bush occupations are staging ground for Iran meddling

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Rumsfeld say Iraq, Afghan missions key to containing Iran

4/24/2006
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=120427

WASHINGTON - US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Monday that the United States must persevere in Iraq and Afghanistan to contain "the extreme impulses that we see emanating from Iran."

Rumsfeld linked the costly and unpopular US efforts to stabilize Iraq and Afghanistan to US concerns about Iran's nuclear program and its regional might, in an interview with the Pentagon's in-house television channel.

He said those who believe that US efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan are too costly or are taking too long need to understand that "success in Afghanistan and success in Iraq is critical to containing the extreme impulses that we see emanating from Iran."

Rumsfeld did not allude to military options in the interview, instead portraying US efforts in neighboring Iraq and Afghanistan as a bulwark against Iranian extremism.

"So most people who suggest that the cost is too great or it's taking too long, and we should not stay the course, it seems to me you have to think what it would mean to Iran and how it would advance their cause, and their cause is a cause that is dangerous to the world."

full article: http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=120427

[WildClarySage]

1. Another rationalization

Another lie.

[MissWaverly]

4. agreed

we have been in Afghanistan since 2001, what progress? as that operation creaks on, why hasn't
that been finished, what timeline are we talking about there? We have now been in Iraq for
3+ years, the country is completely volatile with civillian deaths on the rise, what progress,
what have we accomplished there???? What real goals have been accomplished. (Let's see
Halliburton made record profits, the Repugs won in 04, nuff said.)

[CrazyOrangeCat]

2. extreme impulses are emanating from . . .

. . . Rummy's vacant skull.

[Botany]

3. The man is nuttier than a Squirrel Turd.

"well if we knew then that what we know now is that people know things about knowledge and
such facts we would not know about the other sides knowledge of our way of thinking."

[stillcool]

5. well......there is this....

[Inland]

6. Now we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan to contain Iran. Or something.

As someone said for sy hersh's article, Iran could take Basra with ten mullahs on sound trucks. Contained my ass. We've got a bear by the tail.

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. That;s why BushCo had to get rid of the moderates in Iran

who were in power when Bush took office.