Petraeus says Iran stoking Iraq violence

[qrayjack]

Petraeus says Iran stoking Iraq violence
By Dean Yates

EAST OF BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - The U.S. military commander in Iraq has stepped up accusations that Iran was stoking violence in Iraq and said Tehran's ambassador to Baghdad was a member of the Revolutionary Guards Qods force.

Washington accuses the force, the elite unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, of inciting bloodshed in Iraq and of training and equipping militias who have attacked U.S. troops.

General David Petraeus, speaking at a U.S. military base about 30 km (20 miles) from the Iranian border on Saturday, said Iran was giving advanced weaponry to militias in Iraq.
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Petraeus said Iran was supplying advanced rocket-propelled grenades, shoulder-fired "Stinger-like" air defence missiles and 240 mm rockets to militias in Iraq. *This ain't just Kalashnikovs folks, and somehow we're gonna have to break Iran from sucking eggs.

[Charie]

Wonder if John Edwards will manage to get this info on a bumper sticker, also?

Silly me, of course not. They won't even believe Gen'l Petraeus. He doesn't tell the truth. :madgo:

[qrayjack]

If God appeared on the Capitol steps and said "What's wrong with you people. You want your own country to lose a war? Things are going well in Iraq. Sheeeesssee," the drivebys would bleat, "God makes unannounced visit. Says things could be much better in Iraq." The ACLUers would run around gibbering about 'separation of church and state,' Harry Reid would rise to floor of the Senate and shriek, "God lies, the war is lost," and MoveOn would take out a full-page ad (at a discounted price of course) in the NYT that says, "GOD SHILL FOR BUSH - RIGHT-WING EXREMIST - DITTOHEAD!!!"