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How on earth can America support another war???
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Well it can't, obviously, but the people in charge aren't reasonable, rational men - ask Admiral Fallon, recently relieved of his position for pointing this out. Don't believe a word the liars say, remember last time.
The funniest thing is that they say they raided the Mahdi Army and found *gasp* Iranian weapons. Well, duh. Raid all the other Shiite armed groups and if you don't find stuff stamped 'A Present From Tehran' I'll eat my hat. You'll also find stuff made in China, Russia and practically anywhere else with an arms industry, but no one's breaking out the Tomahawks for those guys. Iraq is intensely corrupt and a centre for smuggling of all sorts, arms in and oil out and Iran being the closest border to Basra is naturally going to be the source for some. They get in on the backs of mules, apparently.
What they'd find if they raided the Iraqi Army, recently reinforced with members of the Badr Brigade to replace defectors and refuseniks, is that quite a lot of them receive pensions from the Iranian Republican Guard, which set up the Badr Brigade in the early 80s as a proxy army to fight Saddam (who at the time was backed by us). Given that, how on earth can the US simultaneously rely on them to sort out Sadr and not turn on the US when Uncle Sam attacks their Iranian friends and paymasters?
Also, it's a bit bloody rich for the US to lecture Iran on creating stability when part of the reason Iran is very interested in its border with Iraq is because, as a result of the US invasion, it's extremely unstable, and lots of Iranians go on pilgrimage there every year. What's bombing Iran going to achieve, greater stability or yet more instability, then? Oh, and a rocketing oil price, of course.