Protection Racket
Pay us or we continue to bust your home up. That's essentially the message the thuggish Iranian mullahs just gave to Iraq. Surrender your sovereignty to Iran, kick the Americans out or Iran will continue to arm and train the people busting up the country.
Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei told visiting Iraqi President Jalal Talabani that US-led forces had to leave Iraq if security was to be restored in the violence-riven country.
"The first step to solve the security issue in Iraq is the exit of the occupiers from this country and leaving the security issues to the people-based Iraqi government," Khamenei was quoted as saying by state television.
"Americans will absolutely not succeed in Iraq and the continuation of Iraq's occupation is not a mouthful that Americans can swallow," Khamenei said Tuesday during a meeting with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.
"The main reason for the current situation in Iraq is the US policies that are being carried out by some intermediaries," the Iranian leader said.
He put the blame for Iraq's insecurity on "some US agents in the region who are mediators of these policies".
"Reinforcing terrorist groups and inflaming the wave of insecurity and killings in Iraq will be very dangerous for the US agents and the region," Khamenei said.
He also pledged that the Islamic republic would come to Iraq's assistance if requested.
"If the Iraqi government asks, Iran will not refrain from any action to establish stability and security in this country."
Translation: Clear the Americans out of the way so we can move in and take over. And there are "realists" who want to talk to these people.
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Blue Crab Boulevard » Prophets Of Defeat — Wednesday, 29 November , 2006 @ 8:04 am
By madmatt, Tuesday, 28 November , 2006 @ 2:46 pm
of course all the non-neo-cons believe that removing troops will help stabalize the country…just another instance of the iranians being smarter than GWB!
By dead king fahd, Wednesday, 29 November , 2006 @ 10:36 am
yes, the iranians are behind all theviolence. tell yourself that. excellent! There is no saudi agenda!
By dead king fahd, Wednesday, 29 November , 2006 @ 10:37 am
saudis love americans, you know
By fiskhus jim, Wednesday, 29 November , 2006 @ 11:14 am
Funny - Bush is doing the exact same thing. Bush is saying to the Iraqi people, “Give our oil companies PSAs that exploit your own people to Big Oil’s benefit, or we will continue to shoot babies in the head and destroy your religious shrines and holy cities.”
So, in reality, the Illegal War for Profit is nothing but a Mafia family war between the Al Qaeda crime family created by George H.W. Bush’s CIA and the Bush Crime Family.