Expand the war to end the war

Rowan Scarborough of the Washington Examiner fuels the anti-Iran debate with more evidence that the Quds Force which President Bush recently designated as a terrorist organization is operating in Iraq;

One analyst estimates that more than 300 members of al Quds Force, the terrorist arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, are operating in southern Iraq. The Revolutionary Guards answer directly to Tehran’s ruling mullahs.

The intelligence about al Quds comes from an Iranian resistance group, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney told The Examiner.

“They have penetrated into the Tehran system,” McInerney said of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK). “Everything they have put out has always check out.” He said that despite new U.S.-Iran talks in Baghdad, Quds operations inside Iraq are increasing, not decreasing.

Army Maj. Rick Lynch, who oversees U.S. troops in an area south of Baghdad, told reporters on Sunday he believes 50 Quds operatives alone are operating in his sector.

While al Qaeda’s main weapon is the vehicle-borne suicide bomber targeted at civilians, Quds Force specializes in building huge roadside bombs (explosively formed projectiles) primarily designed to kill American troops.

“The damage to U.S. forces right now is greater from Quds than from al Qaeda,” McInerney said.

We’ve known since the inception of this war against terror that Iran has been behind every move that’s been made against us. Some Taliban and al Qaeda leaders escaped from Afghanistan into Iran, there is supported evidence that Hussein moved some of his weaponry to Syria and Iran before the US bombs fell. He famously flew his jets to Iran to protect his air force before the Gulf War, it stands to reason he sent more stuff before this war.

Now we have evidence (but really who needs evidence in war – I ask you) that Iran is physically operating against our interests and against democratic Iraqi interests. So what do we do? Shrug our shoulders and bow to the wishes of the US anti-war crowd? Or do we light up the Iraqi borders between Syria and Iran?

In the realm of diplomacy, the Europeans, despite the fact that they support sanctions against Iran for their nuclear program, won’t participate out of pure greed. From the Washington Times’ David Sands;

Among them: EU members Germany and Austria, as well as India, which just signed a major nuclear cooperation agreement with the United States that Mr. Burns had a central role in negotiating, and Turkey.

Mr. Burns said the United States had not insisted on a “quid pro quo” with India to give up its lucrative oil trade or pipeline projects with Iran. But he said the United States was forcefully telling India and Iran’s other trading partners that Tehran does not represent a good investment or credit risk with a package of U.N. sanctions hanging over its economy.

“If countries around the world want diplomacy to be the way to resolve problems with Iran, then there has to be a harder-edged diplomacy. There has to be some teeth,” he said.

And at home, the political wing of radical Islamists (otherwise known as the US Congress) is busy undermining the democratically-elected government of Iraq, says the Washington Post;

Declaring the government of Iraq “non-functional,” the influential chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said yesterday that Iraq’s parliament should oust Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his cabinet if they are unable to forge a political compromise with rival factions in a matter of days.

“I hope the parliament will vote the Maliki government out of office and will have the wisdom to replace it with a less sectarian and more unifying prime minister and government,” Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.) said after a three-day trip to Iraq and Jordan.

I guess it’s much easier to criticize our allies than it is to criticize the enemy. Why doesn’t Levin grow a pair of cojones and announce that Ahmadinijahd is “non-functional”?

The same goes for the inhuman way that prisoners are treated in Iran. Nearly every week we’re subjected to the lies and scare-mongering of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, but what about the treatment of Iranians by their own government?

My new friend, Kamangir, an Iranian student who toils from the safety of Canada to translate Iranian news sources, report some new tragedy nearly every day. Yesterday, he wrote;

Mahmoud Moghimi and the brothers Mohammad and Davood Sharei were executed in Saveh, Iran,  despite the controversy surrounding their case. The execution was announced for Monday, but was carried out a day earlier, disrupting their lawyer’s efforts in proceeding with legal actions to stop it. Jahani, the defense lawyer of the executed individuals stated “if they had not executed them before noon, we had gotten the cancellation verdict.

Two weeks ago, Kamangir translated;

“The executed individuals have been tortured beforehand”, stated Shiva Nazar Ahari, a human rights’ activist, to Rooz.

The interview was carried out right before the execution of fifteen individuals, a short while ago. Shiva says “They were arrested more than eighty days ago and fifteen of them are to be executed today. The families do not know if their sons are among the ones to be executed. Whenever they talk about execution, all the parents get excited. To my understanding, the Judiciary is intentionally doing this to hurt the families. That is while according to the Human Rights Law, the detainee’s family must be informed of their whereabouts and health immediately.” 

Yet, we get to hear the Left whine about our “mistreatment” of the killers and thugs in Guantanamo. I guess because it’s so much easier to cricize someone when you know they won’t retaliate – sissies.

Where is the NY Times and the Washington Post on these REAL atrocities? Well, when the Islamists finally get themselves a nuclear weapon, I guess all of the pain and suffering in the world will end, won’t it?

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