A Heart to Heart Talk: Bush Warns Puppets Not to Praise Iran

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A Heart to Heart Talk: Bush Warns Puppets Not to Praise Iran
by Gary Leupp | Aug 13 2007 - 9:00am


Hamid Karzai, hand-picked by Washington to pose as president of the broken country of Afghanistan, says his government has "very, very good, very, very close relations will continue to have good relations with Iran." He declares on CNN, "So far, Iran has been a helper" in fighting terrorism.

Nuri al-Maliki, favored by Washington as the most viable prime minister to pretend to lead the bleeding country of Iraq, says Iran is doing "positive and constructive" work in "providing security and fighting terrorism" in his country.

Both of these puppet regimes in nations bordering Iran seek to maintain close relations with the Islamic Republic. But puppets aren't supposed to compose their own lines, and the puppeteer George Bush seems somewhat irked at these words.

"I would be very cautious about whether or not the Iranian influence there in Afghanistan is a positive force," he tells visiting Karzai at Camp David. Bush's remarks are often unclear and confused, allowing for various interpretations. But here he's not expressing any openness to the possibility that what the Afghan said might be true. As the Nation reported, he's telling "the visitor from abroad that he is wrong" and that Iran is most certainly not a positive force.

Of Maliki's comments, Bush states with undiplomatic condescension, "I will have to have a heart to heart with my friend, the prime minister, because I don't believe are constructive. ... My message to him is, when we catch you playing a non-constructive role, there will be a price to pay." Here it's not clear whether he's warning Iran it will pay a price (which would not be news because it has been longstanding Bush policy to threaten Iran) or threatening his "friend" the embattled Iraqi prime minister.


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uhc note: Looks like Karzai didn't get the memo.

[truth2power]

1. Typical psychopath. Garbled syntax. n/t