Kristol: Iran Is ‘The Only Real Threat’ To Success In Iraq

[babylonsister]

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http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/21/kristol-iran-iraq-victory/

Kristol: Iran Is ‘The Only Real Threat’ To Success In Iraq

Today, on Fox News Sunday, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol declared that the U.S. was close to victory in the Iraq war, arguing that the “only” concern left for the U.S is dealing with alleged Iranian involvement in Iraq:

We’re winning in Iraq. That is the absolute crucial precondition to having success in the broader fight against Islamic jihadism. … And I think we are going to have to be serious about dealing with both their intervention in Iraq — which is now the only real threat, I think, incidentally, to relative success in Iraq — and their nuclear program.

Watch it/read transcript at link~

While Iran may be causing some violence in Iraq, there are more pressing “threats” to “success.” A National Intelligence Estimate released in February concluded that Iranian involvement was “not likely” to be a major driver of violence. An August McClatchy analysis found that the majority of suicide bombers in Iraq are from Saudi Arabia, not Iran.

In reality, “Iraq’s complex and overlapping sectarian, political and ethnic conflicts, as well as the difficult security situation continue to hinder progress in promoting economic development, the rule of law and political reconciliation,” according to Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction Stuart Bowen.

Kristol used his allegations of Iranian involvement in Iraq to push for more war in the Middle East, claiming, “There has to be the credible threat of force” with Iran. He was quickly rebuked by Juan Williams:

Do you think there’s any question about this — whether or not we have credible military force? We are the superpower in the world. … The thing is we have our military stretched beyond all bounds, and you seem to want to engage in other wars. I don’t know why you feel this way.

Bill Kristol will readily lower his standards for the Iraq war in order to implement his hawkish, neoconservative agenda.

[liberalmuse]

1. What a lying piece of shit.

People need to be reminded that he is one of the PNAC signers every time he makes a tv or radio appearance.

[EST]

2. Kristol has about the same track record and credibility

as Pat "wrong way" Buchanon. They have each been right in their predictions exactly once since the Nixon administration.

[Faygo Kid]

3. Kristol is a brutal warmonger. It's not a question of whether, but when, we attack Iran

Bill Kristol is one of the most loathesome people on the planet, and a clear and present danger to the safety and well-being of every one of us. There is no one more willing to sacrifice others for his neocon dreams - not even Cheney - and no one who better defines "chickenhawk" - not even Limbaugh. He is a repulsive, cold blooded liar and killer who has never been right about anything, and was the "laboring oar" behind the evil Project for a New American Century that pushed the war in Iraq.

I think you can tell that I don't care for the man. He ought to be jailed for crimes against humanity.

[Algorem]

4. he should've been arrested tried and hanged years ago

[jimshoes]

5. He's been 100% completely wrong

about everything else he's predicted why should anyone believe this arsewipe now?

[City Lights]

6. He's delusional.

He reaches into his anus every morning to dig out his daily prediction. Why anyone still listens to him is beyond me.

[annabanana]

7. Kristol is the #1 threat to my television screen....

Of all the smarmy bloviating stinkbugs that infest my screen. .THAT is the one that makes my throwing arm twitch.

[spanone]

8. bwahahahahaaa....he's one funny guy bwahahahaaa laughable

you'd think a fairly intelligent fellow like kristol would have some basis of truth in his punditry.....naw

[opihimoimoi]

9. Bill and his motley crew of NeoCons/PNACers have been wrong from day 1...

Why are we listening to a losing force.....?

No one ever listens to the losing Coach,,,only the winning ones...

[bridgit]

10. Shut the hell up, Bill, please...I said "please"...

Kristol will do, say, and suggest *anything* to enable the practice of his personal beliefs in peace & tranquility behind the gated walls of his community

[bobthedrummer]

11. Who else uses the conceptual framework of Chaldeans, Babylon, Persia, Caanan,

Moab, Ammon etc. in the context of universal fascism and hegemony of the sole world military superpower?

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