Money from Iran Fuels Iraq Insurgency -Rumsfeld

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Money and people channeled from Iran fuel the insurgency in Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in an interview published on Wednesday.
"They have put people in there. They have put money in there," Rumsfeld said in an interview with The Washington Times. "By 'they,' I'm not going to say which element of the government or whether it's even known to the government. But money has come in from Iran. People have come in from Iran."

He gave no further details. Iran has denied previous charges of meddling in Iraq.

Rumsfeld said it was "a very difficult thing to stop" because Iran has shown by its behavior that it is "not part of the civilized world."

But he said other countries are not willing to join in pressuring Tehran to change
more
http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6175358

Time for another war.

By Robert Burns

ASSOCIATED PRESS


WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday he is confident the interim Iraqi government will find a way to retake cities now in the hands of insurgents.

He also expressed sympathy for the rising number of American military deaths in Iraq, now more than 1,000 since the start of the war.

"We certainly honor the courage and sacrifice of every man and woman in uniform who has served in Iraq and who is currently serving there," he said. "And, needless to say, we mourn with the families of those lost."

He said the deaths were part of the cost of going on the offensive against terrorism and related the count to attacks ranging from recent Russian school deaths to the Sept. 11 strikes three years ago. "When combined with U.S. losses in other theaters in the global war on terror, we have lost well more than 1,000 already," he said, according to Cox News Service.
more
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldleader/news/world/9605626.htm

:puke:

http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm

January 26, 1998

excerpt:

Given the magnitude of the threat, the current policy, which depends for its success upon the steadfastness of our coalition partners and upon the cooperation of Saddam Hussein, is dangerously inadequate. The only acceptable strategy is one that eliminates the possibility that Iraq will be able to use or threaten to use weapons of mass destruction. In the near term, this means a willingness to undertake military action as diplomacy is clearly failing. In the long term, it means removing Saddam Hussein and his regime from power. That now needs to become the aim of American foreign policy.

signatories:

Elliott Abrams
Richard L. Armitage
William J. Bennett
Jeffrey Bergner
John Bolton
Paula Dobriansky
Francis Fukuyama
Robert Kagan
Zalmay Khalilzad
William Kristol
Richard Perle
Peter W. Rodman
Donald Rumsfeld
William Schneider, Jr.
Vin Weber
Paul Wolfowitz
R. James Woolsey
Robert B. Zoellick

and the PNAC "Statement of Principles"

http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm

excerpt:

We aim to change this. We aim to make the case and rally support for American global leadership.

<snip>

Of course, the United States must be prudent in how it exercises its power. But we cannot safely avoid the responsibilities of global leadership or the costs that are associated with its exercise. America has a vital role in maintaining peace and security in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. If we shirk our responsibilities, we invite challenges to our fundamental interests. The history of the 20th century should have taught us that it is important to shape circumstances before crises emerge, and to meet threats before they become dire. The history of this century should have taught us to embrace the cause of American leadership.

<snip>

signatories:

Elliott Abrams
Gary Bauer
William J. Bennett
Jeb Bush
Dick Cheney
Eliot A. Cohen
Midge Decter
Paula Dobriansky
Steve Forbes
Aaron Friedberg
Francis Fukuyama
Frank Gaffney
Fred C. Ikle
Donald Kagan
Zalmay Khalilzad
I. Lewis Libby
Norman Podhoretz
Dan Quayle
Peter W. Rodman
Stephen P. Rosen
Henry S. Rowen
Donald Rumsfeld
Vin Weber
George Weigel
Paul Wolfowitz

Israeli spy nest in the U.S. - Ashcroft says: ’Don’t arrest them!’
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=802249
Ashcroft Nixes Arrests in Israeli Spy Probe
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=796806
Secrets: Classified Info: Springing a Leak
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x803017
FBI probes Jewish sway on Bush government
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=802725
Spy Case Renews Debate Over Pro-Israel Lobby's Ties to Pentagon Cons
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=804314
Israel's Mole Inside the Pentagon
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=783161
Pro-Israel Lobby Has Strong VoiceAIPAC Is Embroiled in Investigation
of Pe
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=803035
Defense, Cheney Iran Specialists Questioned in (Israeli Spy) Probe
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=801031
Leak Inquiry Includes Iran Experts in Administration (WaPo)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=801678
White House Learned of Spy Probe in 2001
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=800454
LAT: Israel Has Long Spied on US,Say Officials(but CIA, Mossad "intimate")
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=798631
Wider FBI Probe Of Pentagon Leaks Includes Chalabi - WaPo
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=798333
Serving Two Flags The Bush Neo-Cons and Israel
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=799167
Israeli political advisor may have received U.S. secrets
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=795817
Pentagon leaks connected to battle over Iran policy (this is big!)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=797846
Pentagon Office in Spying Case Was Focus of Iran Debate
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=796889
Alleged Pentagon Leak to Iraqi Is Under Investigation
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=798060
Spy probe scans neo-cons' Israel ties (long article from Asia Times)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=794029
AIPAC hires lawyers
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=794332
IAEA: No proof of secret Iran plan
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=793930
WP: Spy Probe Expands/Linked to NSC Probe
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=795385
Pentagon Office in Spying Case Was Focus of Iran Debate
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=795432
U.S. Spy Probe Focuses on Two Lobbyists -Guardian
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=794973

Conclusion
Investigations and evidence are usually enough to proceed with indictments, interrogations and the pursuit of the leaders and foreign handlers in a major espionage case, especially in wartime. Thousands of innocent South Asians, Arabs and Muslims have been picked up and jailed on the most flimsy excuses (“suspicions”). But in the case of Israeli-AIPEC-Pentagon espionage the normal legal processes are inoperative.

The question of espionage prosecution depends on political power - a struggle between the Israeli State backed by the major Presidential candidates and parties, the Zionist-American political machines and their mass media acolytes on the one hand and, on the other hand the FBI, professional intelligence apparatus (CIA, DIA), state prosecutor and his investigatory staff and few stray political voices. The so-called progressive movements and policy critics are strangely silent: Even as they speak out against war, they fail to denounce an espionage case which is intimately related to the next Middle Eastern war – an Israeli attack on Iran. Why don’t progressive Jews denounce AIPAC espionage to further a new war in Iran? A signed statement “Not in our name” would clearly separate them from these agents of foreign wars. Three days after the initial expose, the mass media have buried the story. The FBI is delaying any announcements. The prosecuting attorney is under tremendous one-sided political pressure. Lacking any mass media outlets the US republic is a helpless giant, tied in knots by malicious dwarfs, unable to defend itself, unable to define its own policy interests. The latest report from the FBI tells us that self-confessed Israeli agent was preparing to lead the authorities to his contacts in the Israeli government when CBS blew open the case. Was CBS aware of the danger to the Israeli secret services and was it trying to undermine the investigation? No doubt some sort of official statement will be made, perhaps even an indictment will be made of the middle level functionary on secondary charges and the FBI may even dare to interview Wolfowitz and Feith on their knowledge of the espionage network with predictable consequences. However if there is anything beyond an interview, the Zionist media will charge “anti-Semitism”, a “Second Dreyfuss” case, which will probably end the current investigation.

The ‘underground’ struggle between the Pentagon Zionists and the US security apparatus will continue. If Bush is re-elected, Wolfowitz will most likely become Secretary of Defense. If Kerry is elected, the closet Zionist, Richard Holbrooke, will take charge of the Pentagon.

American citizens will have to face a serious question: If the security services are incapable of defending our country from foreign espionage in high places – What is to be done?

In either case we face an imminent Zionist designed and promoted military attack on Iran, which is likely to lead to a general conflagration which can only benefit the neo-fascists who run the state of Israel. And you are afraid of being called an anti-Semite for opposing the Israel’s espionage and regional wars.

http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=4298

In a recent New York Times Op-Ed piece, col-umnist Tom Friedman wrote about one of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld's rules for Washington -- something along the lines of "If you’re having difficulty dealing with small problems, make them bigger."

If you think about it, solving small problems by turning them into large ones makes sense for a number of reasons. First, you can get a lot more sense of urgency (from those who need to be involved in the solution) for a big problem than for a small one. Taking the bigger picture allows you to transform your small problem into a symptom of a bigger, deeper issue -- one that also involves symptoms felt by others. If solving the big global problem solves some local problem for others, then there’s something in it for them as well.
http://www.focusedperformance.com/articles/ut19molehills.html

Do you feel a draft?

This war-monger administration will keep us at war for the foreseeable future. It will never end.

any of these lying bastards.

I believe that Iran is funding the insurgents. I also strongly suspect that Syria and Iran are supplying arms, and quite possible, trained members of their respective armies to fight as "insurgents."

It is in both of those conuntries interests to create a quagmire in Iraq so that Iran can continue it's effort to build WMD's without US intervention, and so Syria can continue it's unrestrained support of terrorist activities.

The lie is that we went to war in Iraq when these other two countries, and North Korea, posed a genuine imminent threats.

...Thus while appearing to be America's steadfast allies in the new bizarre world of the "war on terror" they sap our strength and at the same time bleed us of our resources by making claims as trade partner and poorman military ally respectfully. It's a perpetual motion machine for them, the defense lobby and the energy industry. They create and support the enemy while being allies on the war against the enemy, the so called "war on terror."

Whenever said war shows signs of flagging, inexplicably ill-timed and targeted acts of terrorism in Iraq which could only serve western and Israeli interests spring up to horrify the public. But the interests of AIPAC, Sharon, and other Israeli interest groups are not some limited conspiracy but a small part of a larger whole (where major industry sectors intersect and where huge pools of public funds remain to be exploited) and the front for the disguised objectives of the American corporate elites of huge capital now dependent on colonialism, a police state, and war for their continued social and economic gluttony.

PNACing craphole.

:grr:

Didn't he also say the Iraqis would welcome us with flowers?

Why should we believe anything that comes out of his lying mouth?

There is money and guns and "terrorists" from all over
the Islamic world "being channeled into" Iraq. It's a fine
mess, and you had a big hand in creating it.

just before the election.

one day you think it's north korea. then they act like it's iran. right after that, they say things that make you think they'll blow up something here at home.

it's getting tough to keep up. i realize that the october surprise wouldn't be a surprise if we all know which country. but can't we get a little warning like they did for the year leading up to the illegal invasion of iraq?

The Iraqis are fighting for their lives.We are fighting for their deaths.Iranian money or money from anyplace else has nothing to do with it.We used the same arguments in Vietnam.They were lies then.They are lies now. It may take twenty, thirty, or fifty years but there is no way for us to win this war. All we would have done, as in Vietnam is kill thousands of people to satisfy your ego.
Get out now when you can before you commit more war crimes in the name of the American people.

1000 American lives wasted. No, not even wasted--advancing the cause of terrorism around the world by inspiring hatred of America.

Bush = War Criminal

They are prepping the sheep for the next invasion.

Fire for effect.

the fact that in order to continue the hegemonic
takeover of the world, we be needing a DRAFT!
Sheer them little lambs and send em to the slaughter house
oh good amurikkkan moms and dads, po' folk first!
This is gonna be a disasterous endeavor.
Of course it will fail, but our problem is that they
are actually going to try it.
We be fucked.
BHN

I only hope that I can manage to protect my only son from such consequences and that those who blindly followed this horrendous leadership will be the first to go.

did not come home from Vietnam.
And those that did, didn't really, because they were
never the same.
I remember my dad telling my older brother-
Here is the money, leave the country, but don't
tell me where you are going until it is over.
That way I will be able to say I don't know where you are.

I hope you do the same if your son is drafted.
There will be a draft in the near future.
Prepare now. Make a plan for your son.

BHN

both the new bills draft both genders.

I worked in 2002.

Could Rove's October surprise be an Iranian War Resolution?

Wonder how many Democratss will support an Iranian War Resolution? I can see it coming and because Israel would love us to attack Iran, I can see my senator, Joe Lieberman, writing this resolution as well.

He has no idea what he's talking about and draws his conclusions from thin air.

I'm speaking about Chalabi, of course.

The Iranians haven't really even played their best card in Iraq: The Badr Brigades. Thanks to the US knocking secular Sunnis out of power in Iraq, Iran is going to end up getting it's way there -- no question about that. It's only a question of how long, and how many dead.

By Juan Cole
Sep 13, 2004, 18:26

James Gordon Meek reports that both FBI investigations of leaks from the Pentagon concern in part secret US intelligence on Iranian weapons of mass destruction programs. The FBI suspects that this intelligence was leaked to AIPAC and the Israelis on the one hand, and to Ahmad Chalabi on the other. Chalabi in turn is suspected of passing the information on to Tehran, playing the role of double agent. Although the FBI seems to be keeping the two inquiries separate, there is strong circumstantial evidence that there was a behind-the-scenes connection between Chalabi and the Israelis. That is, the information circuit may have been ingrown among the Neoconservatives, the Israelis and Chalabi's people.

It should be noted that Chalabi, the Neoconservatives, and Israel's Likud Party were allied in wanting to get up a US war against Iraq. But they were divided on the next stage, which was to get Washington to attack Iran, as well. Chalabi hates Saddam, but as an Iraqi Shiite has strong ties to Tehran, so he was not actually on board with Stage Two, and may have helped derail it, for which he is now hated in some Neoconservative circles.

The reasons for the iron lock AIPAC has on US congressional Middle East policy is covered by Eric Fleischauer of the Decatur Daily. He writes


' Members of a lobbying group accused of channeling classified information from an alleged spy in the Pentagon to the Israeli government were instrumental in putting an Alabama congressman in office.
more
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_11561.shtml

Ah, there's no honor among thieves.
At the beginning of the war our government brought an exiled cleric in to southern Iraq via helicopter from Iran. He had been in exile since the first Gulf War. International reports at the time stated he had millions of US dollars on him as a menas of buying support among the Shia in the south. He and IIRC his nephew were hacked to death in from of a mosque by a huge angry mob. It just goes to show how bush* co miscalculated from the start.
Add to that the Russians have been building the nuclear power plant in Iran and we vacated the AF base while Russia was working out a sweet oil deal with Saudi.

Its just a matter of time

must create his own monster.

"If these people would quietly let us bomb their homes without complaining and wanting to kill us, this war could be over very soon" continued Rumsfeld.

We need to get the hell out of there. If we're there, they're gonna shoot at us. If we kill them, they're gonna try to kill us.

We started this fight, not them.

A good case can be made for the other side too.

Bruce

It's so easy for these goofballs to start wars, when there are oceans separating us. Can you imagine the chaos if these people were our neighbors? Our children and their children will be paying for this aggression. We are making THEIR world.
I think I'm beginning to see a pattern here- if it doesn't have a McDonald's, bomb it.

Edit- So many people without a conscience, or a misaligned one, work in munition factories. Here we police the country looking for a joint of marijuana, or someone not wearing a helmet while riding their bike. But we reward those who help to create pain, suffering, and a sorry ass world. We need to stop the war machine. It's live, or be fearful. They have to choose one or the other. And fear means death and suffering. What is wrong with these shitheads? When I owned an electronics corporation with my father, if we had a request from a military contractor, we TORE IT UP. And we were still very successful.

Outstanding post, thank you!

Let's do some preemptive action of our own. Letters to the editor that point out the absurdity of this and other threatened aggressions would be a start.

One neighbor of mine- a wonderful kind man who is always helping his other neighbors with small projects, is sure * is the best choice because he is reorganizing a dangerous situation. He can't understand that to go into a mess like this without enough money, support, military, is just crazy.
Even if you did decide that what you were all about was fixing the Middle East this is certainly not the way you'd do it, any more than you would bomb your next door neighbor to improve them.

It's good to put it in the context of one on one. Preemptive strike- if you thought I was a threat, would you be right to haul off and punch me (or kill me) before I did anyting?

Also, make sure none of your 401K monies and personal investments are in munition industries. If you need to invest, do it in a PAX WorldFund. They will not invest in any warmaking companies.

SO ON TO IRAN!


Fighting an unwinnable war

PRESIDENT Bush apparently stubbed his toe with NBC's Matt Lauer when asked about the war on terrorism. His reply: "I don't think you can win it." That caused an uproar in Democratic circles, and John Kerry and John Edwards attacked him for giving up on victory against terrorists.
http://www.sanmateocountytimes.com/Stories/0,1413,87~11268~2387703,00.html

"But money has come in from Iran. People have come in from Iran."

This changes everything. No wonder bombing those poor people incessantly hasn't worked. Perhaps we need to broaden the war to include Indonesia and China. (sarcasm)

ROFLMAO! WTF has rumshit and the rest been doing? Haven't they said they want more international involvement? Welcome the new member of the 'coalition of the willing'

Satan's minion is trying to tell the rest of us
what is and what is not civilized?
I think he had better check the education stats
between Iran's population and his own.
Many people consider education as an
indicator of civilized- if we use that measuring
stick Rummy, we are the barbarians.
BHN

Despite Thin Intelligence Reports US Plans ToOverthrow Iranian Regime
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/LEO305C.html

Probably missed missed a turn on PNAC road map somewhere.

Sounds like they are looking for a switch to turn it on again


http://infoshop.org/Welcome.html

Remember the, "we're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them here" crap? This was part of their plan all along.

(Pooty Poot) Just declared pre-emptive strikes of his very own and in almost the same breath warns Pakistan re-money and support to terrorists?

Putin and Bush on same page huh? Bomb them all. Kill kill kill!

180

I seem to recall people coming in there (Iraq) from the U.S.

Must we also invade ourselves?

Rumfilled retching out his PNAC doomsday scenario.

Why won't the media ask "Hey, asshole. Just how many fucking countries do you want to invade and conquer? And who will fight these wars and how much will it cost?"

That there's an authentic line from the friendly folks over at the PNAC.

Syria or Iran? Syria's easier, and they've got the IDF to pitch in for the Blitzkrieg, but Iran's got all those Shiites...

What to do, what to do...

If this gets out of control, will we have to help them?

and neither are your sycophantic neocon underlings, nor your bosses and their scum appointees.

it makes me SO angry that they're starting the war drum beating against Iran. Drip, drip, drip and before you know it half the American people (well, maybe not quite that many) weill be lulled into some sense that Iran MUST be invaded -- or perhaps just nuked into oblivion ('cause I can't for the life of me figure out even WITH a draft how they'll get the number of troops they need to do yet another invasion -- seems to me even if they doubled the number of total active duty troops we'd still be undermanned for such a pursuit).

Rumsfeld said it was "a very difficult thing to stop" because Iran has shown by its behavior that it is "not part of the civilized world."

----

Perfect lead-in to a "must Invade Iran to get rid of the source of money/terrorists" policy.

If Bush is elected, bank on more wars and a renewal of the Draft.

Iran has almost as much oil as Iraq, and has the second largest reserve of natural gas in the world behind Russia. But that wouldn't have anything to do with it. Of course, most of the terrorists on the planes that hit the WTC and the Pentagon were from Saudi Arabia, but we aren't dropping any hints that we're going to invade them because the Saudi royals are Bushco's buddies. Grrrrrrrr

Could it be they won't until this administration is sent packing? This whole mess has snowballed either because we should have not gone into Iraq in the first place, or we should have gone in with a huge force, allowing for border control...which is it?

WAR! n/t

When you've taken care of that, you can wake me up.

:boring:
rocknation

Read the paper Rummy. Things are a little more complicated than that.

EVERY MAJOR MIDDLE EAST COUNTRY IS POUR MONEY, WEAPONS, AND FIGHTERS INTO IRAQ TO BEAT US ACCORDING TO INTERNATIONAL INTEL.

THE WAR IS OVER AND WE LOST IT. ALSO BUSH-CHENEY GAVE THE ISLAMIC TERRORISTS EVERY REASON TO DESTROY THE U.S. FOR THE NEXT 50 YEARS!

Say it isn't so. I think we've noticed this from the beginning.

we all know where this line of thinking is headed.