DadsDream said

No, I don't buy the "Bush administration is looking for a war pretext" line. People began hyping that concern four years ago and it still hasn't happened. It's not going to happen. Too late now.

Our relations with Iran have been one continuous thread of contempt, mistrust and malignancy for over three decades now.

Let's face it, with his holocaust denials and gay bashing, Ahmadinejad made himself and Iran the focus of the ire of some pretty powerful people and political groups here.

Bush had nothing to do with that.

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Petraeus points to war with Iran

Posted: April 10, 2008
8:27 pm Eastern
© 2008

The neocons may yet get their war on Iran.

Ever since President Nouri al-Maliki ordered the attacks in Basra on the Mahdi Army, Gen. David Petraeus has been laying the predicate for U.S. air strikes on Iran and a wider war in the Middle East.
Iran, Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services Committee, has "fueled the recent violence in a particularly damaging way through its lethal support of the special groups."

These "special groups" are "funded, trained, armed and directed by Iran's Quds Force with help from Lebanese Hezbollah. It was these groups that launched Iranian rockets and mortar rounds at Iraq's seat of government (the Green Zone) ... causing loss of innocent life and fear in the capital."
Is the Iranian government aware of this – and behind it?

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