Blair: Iran or Hezbollah involved in Iraq

[sabra]

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/12832683.htm

Blair: Iran or Hezbollah involved in Iraq

Associated Press

LONDON - Prime Minister Tony Blair said Thursday that new explosive devices used against coalition forces in Iraq "lead us either to Iranian elements or to Hezbollah."

"We cannot be sure," Blair told a news conference, but "there are certain pieces of information that lead us back to Iran."

On Wednesday, Press Association reported that a senior government official said Britain believed Iran's Revolutionary Guard was supplying explosives technology to insurgents in Iraq that was being used against British soldiers there.

Tehran rejected the allegation.

[LynnTheDem]

1. bLIAR; "that's why, if he disarms, he can remain in power"

bLIAR; "This is not about overthrowing Saddam, it's about weapons of mass destruction."

bLIAR; "There is no doubt that Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction."

bLIAR; a really big LIAR.

[saigon68]

6. He is a very, very Big POODLE to the CHIMPANZEE

[leveymg]

2. Gee, Iran or Syria, bad, bad where have we heard that before? n/t

[deminks]

3. Here we go again.

Hey, Bliar, if "we cannot be sure" then STFU. This is so neo-con.

[CJCRANE]

4. Does anyone still believe a word he says? nt

[leesa]

5. STFU you traitor.

[underpants]

7. Is this news?

Don't we already know that the Iranians either followed US forces in or met them at Baghdad and started immediately getting their people in place in the new Iraqi government and society? Don't we already know that? Wasn't that sort of thing predicted by everyone who had intimate knowledge of the region or who spent 5 minutes or so thinking about what might happen?

[DLnyc]

8. Translation: Moving Clusterf*ck out of Iraq and into Iran

Not that hard to read between the lines here:

"Even though we've had trouble with our 'dress like arabs/blow things up' operations, we are confident we can eventually 'fix the intelligence' to blame Iran for all the world's problems and thus justify an invasion. This will be very convenient, as we are having to admit failure in Iraq and pull our troops out of the cities. Nothing covers up a military failure better than a new military operation (i.e. a new military failure in the making). You should believe me because everything I've said up to now has turned out to be lies and I am obviously in a tough spot and somehow my record of lying and my obvious motive in lying now should convince you that, magically, everything I'm saying now is true and I'm saying that I'm not lying so I'm glad that little question has been all cleared up. Now go back to watching rugby while I push the world off a cliff.

[bemildred]

9. Or maybe the Iraqis looked the information up by themselves? nt

[tlcandie]

10. So why are they upset ? They got what they wanted!!!

It's the flypaper trap... get em all over there so we don't have to deal with them here. Did they think they could pick and choose who came calling to their testosterone call to war?

What they hell did they think they were asking for... belly dancers?

[SOS]

11. From Juan Cole:

"First the US Department of Defense floated an attempt to accuse Iran of supplying shaped charges to Sunni Arab guerrillas in northern Iraq. The idea of the ayatollahs helping radical Salafi Abu Musab Zarqawi to blow up fellow Shiites was so absurd that the US dropped the whole thing for a while. Now the Blair government has retooled the charges slightly more plausibly, claiming that the Iranians were sending shaped charges to radical Sadrist splinter groups in Basra for use against British troops. But Iran has long backed the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) and its Badr Corps paramilitary, which was trained by Iran's Revolutionary Guards. The Sadrists have clashed several times with SCIRI, most recently in Najaf. And, Sadrists are ghetto Arab Shiites who openly distrust Persian influence in their affairs. So why would the Iranian government arm the enemies of its proteges, and persons who, moreover, routinely badmouth Iran and work against its influence in Iraq. The whole thing makes no sense."