Loopy Rice, no Plan B, Iran next

Ms. Rice had better think of Plan B because Plan A won't work. The Iraqi Army will never "stand up" while the United States occupies Iraq. The U.S. can kick down doors and try to secure Baghdad all they want, but the Shiite led Iraqi Army will NEVER back them up.

Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al Maili resents more U.S. troops being sent to Iraq, resents having U.S. commanders at his elbows looking over his shoulder, resents having been ordered to give U.S. forces "the green light" to go wherever they want and to do whatever they want "to secure Baghdad". Maliki wants U.S. forces stationed on the periphery of Baghdad and for his Shiite led Iraqi Army, Interior Ministry troops, and police to massacre every Sunni they find - and still the Shiites would not love Americans or want a U.S. style western corporate democracy in their country.

The U.S. stragetic option of "picking sides" in the Iraqi civil war will not succeed in bringing a U.S. victory or in pacifying Iraq. Maliki will never disarm or annihilate the Mehdi Army or cut his ties with Iran. Like that bearded old hippy Congressman from Hawaii said to Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice's face, "This is the stupidest plan I've ever heard in my life!"

For the real Plan B see link at foot of this post.



Hat tip David Kurtz at Talking Points Memo

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(January 14, 2007 -- 12:42 AM EDT)

Condi Rice channeling Donald Rumsfeld:

Aboard her plane, Rice also told reporters that the United States would not abandon Iraq even if Bush's latest plan fails.

"We're not pulling the plug on Iraq," she said. "I think we'll worry about making Plan A work for now. And obviously, if it doesn't, then you know, we're not going to say, oh my goodness, that didn't work, there's nothing that can be done."

Oh my goodness.

-- David Kurtz

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Rice says U.S. will defend its interest in the Persian Gulf

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Posted on Sat, Jan. 13, 2007

By Warren P. Strobel
McClatchy Newspapers

JERUSALEM - U.S. military moves in the Persian Gulf and raids against Iranian installations in Iraq are meant to demonstrate that the United States will defend its interests against an increasingly aggressive Iran, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday.

Rice made her comments as she began a Middle East tour in which she will try to bolster moderate Arab leaders who increasingly are under threat from both Shiite and Sunni Muslim extremists.

The focus of her diplomacy this week shows how far the United States has been forced to change its aims in the region because the war in Iraq has turned out differently than planned.

President Bush, Rice and others predicted the Iraq invasion would spread democracy throughout the Arab world. Instead, Rice now appears to be playing defense against Iran's emboldened leaders.

Following a new policy laid down by President Bush, U.S. military forces this week detained Iranians in two raids in northern Iraq. Washington says it has evidence that Iranian agents are destabilizing Iraq by constructing a deadly class of roadside bombs and backing Shiite militias.

Bush, who issued fresh warnings to Iran in his Wednesday speech outlining his new Iraq plan, has also ordered a second U.S. aircraft carrier strike group to the Persian Gulf and dispatched Patriot anti-missile batteries to American allies in the Gulf.

Some senators have expressed alarm that the moves could represent a widening of U.S. war aims in the strategic Gulf region.

But Rice said the moves were merely a response to Iranian actions.

"The United States has long, historic interests in the Persian Gulf," Rice said at an appearance with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. "We have always-president after president after president-sought to have a force posture that makes clear we can defend those interests."

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Aboard her plane, Rice also told reporters that the United States would not abandon Iraq even if Bush's latest plan fails.

"We're not pulling the plug on Iraq," she said. "I think we'll worry about making Plan A work for now. And obviously, if it doesn't, then you know, we're not going to say, oh my goodness, that didn't work, there's nothing that can be done."

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Next stop, Iran:

Would You Believe Iranians Arrested Are Linked To Revolutionary Guard? by HL Mungo [Daily Kos diary] Sun Jan 14, 2007 at 02:25:32 AM PST

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