The blame Iran casus belli game

The fact that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, is claiming that Iran in involved in supplying arms to Iraq (despite the fact that the U.S. military has not presented any evidence) is an indication that the blame Iran game is originating at the highest levels of the U.S. government. Many experts and avid observers conclude that President Bush has already decided to strike Iran before his term in office ends on 20 January 2009. That will leave the next President taking office with another war to deal with. Bush's desire for a wider region war will be fait accompli before he leaves office unless he is impeached forthwith. A war with Iran will damage this nation far more than it has already been damaged by the ill-advised war in Iraq.

U.S. blames Iran for Iraqi arms surge

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The Associated Press
Wednesday, February 7, 2007

BAGHDAD

U.S. officials say they believe that Iran is supplying Shiite militias with new weapons, including more powerful roadside bombs, some of which they say could have found their way into the hands of Sunni insurgents who operate around Taji, north of Baghdad.

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General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Tuesday that the number of improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, that had been placed alongside roads or in public places in Iraq had "doubled over the course of the last year," and he blamed Iran for supplying the most deadly of them.

The use of "explosively formed projectiles, which are a much more deadly form, that are coming into Iraq from Iran," had become much more prevalent, Pace said.

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