O-6: No question about Iran role in violence

[unhappycamper]

O-6: No question about Iran role in violence
By William H. McMichael - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday May 13, 2008 21:27:27 EDT

A former adviser to the top U.S. general in Iraq said Tuesday there is absolutely no doubt that Iran is supplying arms and training for insurgents who are killing U.S. troops in Iraq and that news organizations should stop using the qualifying word “alleged” to describe it.

“In the case of what Iran is doing in Iraq, it is so damned obvious to anybody who wants to look into it,” said Army Col. H.R. McMaster, speaking at a Washington, D.C., forum at the American Enterprise Institute. Iran’s intention, he said, is to destabilize the Iraqi government despite public pronouncements of support.

“I think it’s fairly clear that what Iran has done over the last year is try to develop a considerable latent capability that it can turn on at short notice,” said McMaster, a veteran of combat command in Iraq who spent the past year as an adviser to Army Gen. David Petraeus.

McMaster also said that the Iraqi thwarting of the recent uprising in Basra, which officials have said involved significant Iranian backing, may have spoiled a larger regional destabilization effort.

It is possible, McMaster said, “that this bold, very quick action by the prime minister in Basra foiled what was to be, perhaps, a much larger and coordinated effort — maybe even coordinated with efforts in other places in the region, like what’s been happening right now in Lebanon.”


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/05/military_mcmaster_iran_051308/

[Lasher]

1. Yep, that's how you get promoted in today's Army.

McMaster has been passed over 2 years in a row for promotion to Briagdier General. After this warmongering at the infamous AEI, he'll get his stars post haste.

[Mnpaul]

2. Still lying

10 May 2008

"US confession: Weapons were not made in Iran after all"

In a sharp reversal of its longstanding accusations against Iran arming militants in Iraq , the US military has made an unprecedented albeit quiet confession: the weapons they had recently found in Iraq were not made in Iran at all.

According to a report by the LA Times correspondent Tina Susman in Baghdad: “A plan to show some alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to journalists last week in Karbala and then destroy them was canceled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran. A U.S. military spokesman attributed the confusion to a misunderstanding that emerged after an Iraqi Army general in Karbala erroneously reported the items were of Iranian origin. When U.S. explosives experts went to investigate, they discovered they were not Iranian after all.”

The US , which until two weeks ago had never provided any proof for its allegations, finally handed over its “evidence” of the Iranian origin of these weapons to the Iraqi government. Last week, an Iraqi delegation to Iran presented the US “evidence” to Iranian officials. According to Al-Abadi, a parliament member from the ruling United Iraqi Alliance who was on the delegation, the Iranian officials totally refuted “training, financing and arming” militant groups in Iraq . Consequently the Iraqi government announced that there is no hard evidence against Iran.
http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/4886

3 days after they made a fool of themselves in Iraq they return to their lies.