Iran is suspected of either training the operatives involved or directly carrying out the raid on a Karbala compound last week. If I recall the story right, 4 SUV’s posing as Contractors and wearing US military style uniforms were allowed through a checkpoint by Iraqis and then into a US compound in Karbala last week. Several people were wounded at the site and 4 American soldiers were kidnapped. They were later found executed inside of 2 of the SUVs. It was reported by Iraqis at the checkpoint that the attackers spoke English and one of the men had blond hair.
Need to apply a few tomahawks to Amadinajan’s (its spellled wrong) bedroom. Make it very focused and personal to him.
We are not good at that sort of thing.
Its is stuff like this that makes me miss Ronald Reagan.
Quadaffi is still has an ice pack on his head from the bombing we gave him in the 80’s. We targeted his kids, his military and him.
Iran wants us dead. We capture and release Iranians in Iraq who help plan attacks, we send Tony Snow in front of the TV to say we are ‘talking about Iran’ and we have several politicians on both the left and the right who want us to open up talks with Iran.
I think it’s very interesting how media discusses Iran in terms of “talks” but has up until now, completely ignored thier involvement in Iraq. Even when we capture 5 of thier elite forces guys in country. I miss Ronnie too.
I honestly think we will not likely take any real action. Sooo… Last time I checked, borders in that region were sort of hard to identify. You know, mountainous terrain and all. How about this, anyone resembling an insurgent (i.e. armed with anything bigger than a slingshot) just gets blown to hell if they wander near the border region. To include any weapons shipments or personnel. If anyone bitches, “oops, I thought Iran was 15 miles thay way…” :eek: Better to just blow the crap out of them and not put guys on the ground at risk.
If we do get jiggy with Iran, prepare for stuff to happen here. Iran has formed an alliance Hugo Chavez and he will supply a way into the US for Irans terrorists. 3 Paki’s have been nailed crossing the border with Venezuelaian passports. Not to mention that Hezbollah has been operating within the US for some time now. Many believe the Iranian networks are more sophisticated than the Al Queda networks and pose a greater danger.
This should not really surprise anyone who is familiar with the history of the Middle East and post revolutionary Iran. Especially the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps who also have there own “Special Forces” units (Qods Force). These are the same units that had a part in bombing the U.S. Marine barracks and kidnapping of U.S. citizens in Lebanon. Not to mention providing training, weapons, intelligence, logistical, and even troops to support Hezbollah for the past thirty years. They have also provided this same support to Islamic forces in the Balkans for the past ten years. It does not surprise me that they have started operations in Iraq considering how much Iran has at stake. Iran does not want a U.S. ally on both its Eastern & Western borders.
Hell, the current president of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was a member of the Revolutionary Guards in the 1980’s.
Even though I feel we need to take certain action in Iran, I have to say DAMN- Dressing Up like American Forces and pulling off a Mission like that is Ballsy…and I have to respect that. They could have got in and blown themselves up like 2nd-rate brain-washed “martyrs”, but they didn’t; the mission was much more surgical than that. Those dudes were Professionals who are now most likely evaluating our response and or planning follow-on missions. Now we will see how our side responds.
Oh man, I just found out those Iranians killed 5 Americans- I didn’t know that when I wrote the above statement. I’m sure we will hunt them down and have the CIA cut off one finger at a time until they would rather be dead.
