Admirals Fallon (CENTCOM) and Mullen (CJCS) have both expressed in the past serious reservations about the war whores' desire to attack Iran. Thomas P.M. Barnett in Esquire writes that Pres. Fredo may be sick of one of them:
Last December, when the National Intelligence Estimate downgraded the immediate nuclear threat from Iran, it seemed as if Fallon's caution was justified. But still, well-placed observers now say that it will come as no surprise if Fallon is relieved of his command before his time is up next spring, maybe as early as this summer, in favor of a commander the White House considers to be more pliable. If that were to happen, it may well mean that the president and vice-president intend to take military action against Iran before the end of this year and don't want a commander standing in their way.
And so Fallon, the good cop, may soon be unemployed because he's doing what a generation of young officers in the U. S. military are now openly complaining that their leaders didn't do on their behalf in the run-up to the war in Iraq: He's standing up to the commander in chief, whom he thinks is contemplating a strategically unsound war.
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On Iran, from AJ Strata today:
"On the Iraq front US forces have captured another Iranian military operative which clearly shows Iran is at war with the US and Iraq:
The U.S.-led coalition has captured a senior Iranian operative who helped finance and equip Shi’ite militias.
U.S. Army paratroopers detained the suspected senior leader of the Iranian-sponsored Special Groups network during an operation in Baghdad’s Beida neighborhood on Feb. 27, Middle East Newsline reported.
Officials said the Special Groups was trained and equipped by Iran. They said the organization, believed to comprise a series of cells, introduced the Explosively-Formed Penetrator, designed to destroy U.S. — and other Western origin main battle tanks.
Someone should inform Strata that
since the Shia militias (which Bush boasted would be disbanded promptly in 2003) have the affinity of far more Iraqis than
do America occupational forces-and since this is dramatically verified by the fact well over half of all Iraqi Shias support
insurgent attacks on the occupiers,
it might just be more truthful that
Iraq is at war with America and that Iran is merely assisting that
war.
Ken,
Yes, you are correct. When you get down to what the real problem in Iraq is, it turns out to be US!
That's certainly what the Iraqis think:
http://radamisto.blogspot.com/2008/03/iraqis-on-teh-surge.html
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