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Petraeus Testimony: The World in the General's Mouth
Petraeus Testimony Next Week Will Signal Iran Attack
by Paul Craig Roberts Today (April 5, 2008) the London Telegraph reported that; "British officials gave warning yesterday that America’s commander in Iraq will declare that Iran is waging war against the US-backed Baghdad government. A strong statement from General David Petraeus about Iran’s intervention in Iraq could set the stage for a US attack on Iranian militiary facilities, according to a Whitehall assessment.”
The neocon lacky Petraeus has had his script written for
him by Cheney, and Petraeus together with neocon warmonger Ryan
Crocker, the US governor of the Green Zone in Baghdad, will present
Congress next Tuesday and Wednesday with the lies, for which the road
has been well paved by neocon propagandists such as Kimberly Kagan,
that “the US must recognize that Iran is engaged in a full-up proxy war
against it in Iraq.”
Don’t expect Congress to do anything except
to egg on the attack. On April 3 the International Herald Tribune
reported that senators and representatives have made millions of
dollars from their investments in defense companies totaling $196
million. Rep. Ike Skelton, the Democrat chairman of the House Armed
Services Committee, is already on board with the attack on Iran. The
London Telegraph quotes Skelton: “Iran is the bull in the china shop.
In all of this, they seem to have links to all of the Shi’ite groups,
whether they be political or military.”
All Skelton knows is
what the war criminal Bush regime tells him. If Iran really does have
all these connections, then it behooves Washington to cease threatening
Iran and to make nice with Iran in order to stabilize Iraq and extract
the US from the nightmare.
Reporting from Tehran on April 4,
Reuters quotes Mohsen Hakim, whose father, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leads
the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, an ally of the Maliki US
puppetgovernment in Iraq: “Tehran, by using its positive influence on
the Iraqi nation, paved the way for the return of peace to Iraq and the
new situation is the result of Iran’s efforts.”
Instead of
thanking Iran and working with Iran diplomatically to restore stability
to Iraq, the Bush regime intends to expand the nightmare with a
military attack on Iran. Ryan Crocker was quick to dispute Hakim’s
report that Iran had used its influence to end the fighting in Basra.
Crocker alleged that Iran had started the fighting. The absurdity of
Crocker’s claim is obvious as even the neocon US media reported that
the fighting in Basra was started by the US and Maliki in an effort to
clear out the Shi’ite al-Sadr militias. Most experts saw the attack on
al-Sadr for what it was: an effort to remove a potential threat to the
US supply line from Kuwait in the event of a US attack on Iran.
Crocker
alleges that the rockets dropping on the Green Zone during the Basra
fighting were made in 2007 in Iran. As should be obvious even to
disengaged Americans, if Iran were to arm the Iraqi insurgency, the
insurgents would have modern weapons to counter US helicopter gunships
and heavy tanks. The insurgents have no such weapons. The neocon lie
that Iran is the cause of the Iraqi insurgency is just another Bush
regime lie like the lie that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass
destruction and connections to al Qaeda and the lie that the Taliban in
Afghanistan attacked the US.
The Bush regime will tell any lie and orchestrate any event in order to “finish the job” in the Middle East.
“Finishing
the job” means to destroy the ability of Iraq, Iran, and Syria to
provide support for the Palestinians and for Hezbollah in southern
Lebanon against Israeli aggression. With Iraq and Iran in turmoil,
Syria might simply give up and become another American client state.
With Iraq and Iran in turmoil, Israel can steal the rest of the West
Bank along with the water resources in southern Lebanon. That is what
“the war on terror” is really about.
The entire world knows
this. Consequently, the US and Israel are essentially isolated. The
US can only count on the support that it can bribe and pay for.
“No one can seriously think that Iran would dare
attack the U.S. Instead of pushing Iran into a corner, it would be far
more sensible to think together how to help Iran become more
predictable and transparent.”
Of course it would, but that is not what the warmonger Bush regime wants.
Perhaps
the British government has derailed the plot to attack Iran by leaking
in advance to the London Telegraph the disinformation Cheney has
prepared for Petraeus and Crocker to deliver to the complicit US
Congress next Tuesday and Wednesday.
On the other hand, the US puppet
media is likely to bury the real story and to trumpet Petraeus claims
that Iran has, in effect, already declared war on the US by sending
weapons to kill US troops in Iraq.
By next Thursday we will
know from how the Petraeus-Crocker dog and pony show plays in the US
Congress and media whether the Bush Regime will commit yet another war
crime by attacking Iran.
Paul Craig Roberts
a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate
editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been reporting shocking cases of
prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A new edition of his book, The
Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-authored with Lawrence Stratton, a
documented account of how Americans lost the protection of law, is
forthcoming from Random House in March, 2008.
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