Iranian Weapons Arm Iraqi Militia

Post by **psi29a** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:11 pm

http://abcnews.go.com/International/Ira ... id=2688501

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2006 — U.S. officials say they have found smoking-gun evidence of Iranian support for terrorists in Iraq: brand-new weapons fresh from Iranian factories. According to a senior defense official, coalition forces have recently seized Iranian-made weapons and munitions that bear manufacturing dates in 2006.

This suggests, say the sources, that the material is going directly from Iranian factories to Shia militias, rather than taking a roundabout path through the black market. "There is no way this could be done without (Iranian) government approval," says a senior official.

Iranian-made munitions found in Iraq include advanced IEDs designed to pierce armor and anti-tank weapons. U.S. intelligence believes the weapons have been supplied to Iraq's growing Shia militias from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which is also believed to be training Iraqi militia fighters in Iran.

Evidence is mounting, too, that the most powerful militia in Iraq, Moktada al-Sadr's Mahdi army, is receiving training support from the Iranian-backed terrorists of Hezbollah.

F-ing great. So our exit strategy is through Iran.

Post by **ShinigamiGuts** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:07 pm

Yup, bush asked syria and iran to help with Iraq. Which basically means US soldiers died for nothing, and we will just hand over a big ass piece of property to terrorist. YAY!
All bush did was unite terrorist muslims against us. Prior to belief Saddam and Al-queda hated each other, and unlike Bush he did a good job of keeping Al-queda out of Iraq.

Post by **Finito** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 12:42 am

So Iran is next I guess.

Post by **MonkWren** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 1:23 am

Finito wrote:So Iran is next I guess.

We knew that already, though. There are plenty of tapes pointing towards Washington wanting to invade Iran, even before it starting aiding insurgents in Iraq. The fact of the matter is, we should have realized that Iran would jump at the chance to screw over the US, and we didn't. As for actually punishing Iran, the only way to do so would be with remote air-strikes. We don't have the manpower to occupy Iraq, much less Iraq and Iran at the same time. And US citizens won't stand for the military to pull out of Iraq only to invade Iran (not to mention the world's outrage). I suggest we just firebomb Tehran and other major Iranian cities for a while, and give them a chance to think over the consequences of arming insurgents and attempting an illegal nuclear weapons program.

Post by **Brainpiercing** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 8:49 am

Who needs education when you can BOMB sense into people? That's a whole new concept, we should try that at all those violent school-yards around everywhere....

Seriously, I don't like it at all that Iran arms the insurgents, but bombing Iran will just be another fiasco - and leave behind many angry people.

But there is a way: Use the US' number one ally. Let Israel attack Iran. That way they get to take all the blame, all you need to do is secretly provide them with more weapons...

Post by **MonkWren** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 2:06 pm

Brainpiercing wrote:Who needs education when you can BOMB sense into people? That's a whole new concept, we should try that at all those violent school-yards around everywhere....

Seriously, I don't like it at all that Iran arms the insurgents, but bombing Iran will just be another fiasco - and leave behind many angry people.

But there is a way: Use the US' number one ally. Let Israel attack Iran. That way they get to take all the blame, all you need to do is secretly provide them with more weapons...

Eh, no-one seemed to mind when we bombed random people in Africa during the Clinton years (in an attempt to get bin Laden, I might add). As for education...

Do you really believe that Tehran will ever allow it's people to be educated? Honestly, now. Is one of the most fundamentalist, extremist, religious governments in the world really going to give it's people a good education? Even if it does, how long will it take for change to occur? Months? Years? Decades?

I'm not suggesting bombing as an actual attempt to destroy Iran's infrastructure or anything like that, simply as a warning that they'd better back the fuck off.

Post by **Brainpiercing** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 1:49 am

It won't work. Either you invade, and take for granted that hundreds if not thousands of US solddiers will die, or you don't do anything. Bombing will not get you any further.

Quite frankly I'm beginning to think the US should really start acting like a bad guy in the middle east. It seems to be the only way. Why was there a relative peace under Saddam? Because he just annilhilated a few villages now and then. Maybe the US should just kill more civilians for every terror attack. For every dead terror victim the US kills ten other civilians. Of course it will be pointless violence, but maybe that region needs it. It needs to be taught the hard way. Israel isn't nearly brutal enough.

Post by **Shaka Zulu** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 12:24 pm

Brainpiercing wrote:Maybe the US should just kill more civilians for every terror attack. For every dead terror victim the US kills ten other civilians. Of course it will be pointless violence, but maybe that region needs it. It needs to be taught the hard way. Israel isn't nearly brutal enough.

Yes, thats what the region really needs, the US acting like Israel(though it would be an improvement if the US acted like the terrorist govt of Israel, the US is way worse in some many levels that its not even funny), killing 100s of civilians for every terrorist attack(imprisoning thousands of civilians for every captured IDF soldier), it sure has worked for the last 60 years hasnt it?

Thank you for sharing your infinite wisdom with us, you dont sound like you have what what your nickname says to yourself at all.