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Bush Calls for the Mass Murder
of Iranians
Kurt
Nimmo
Wednesday Aug 29, 2007
According to Bush, Iran is “responsible for training
extremist Shia factions in [Iraq] which it supplied with arms
and weapons, including sophisticated roadside bombs. He referred
specifically to 240mm rockets that he said had been made in Iran
this year and smuggled into Iraq by Iranian agents,” the
Guardian
reports from Reno, Nevada, where Bush read from a yet another
neocon generated script, this time at the 89th annual American
Legion convention.
“Members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Qods Force are supplying extremist groups with funding and weapons,
including sophisticated improvised explosive devices (IEDs). With
the assistance of Hezbollah, they have provided training for violent
forces active inside Iraq,” a White House press
release, released to coincide with Bush’s speech, or
rather script reading, would have us believe.
Of course, all of this nonsense, a fact pointed out by McClatchy
Newspapers back in February. “Sunni Muslim insurgents remain
by far the biggest threat to American troops in Iraq, despite
recent U.S. claims that Iran is providing Shiite Muslim militia
groups with a new type of roadside bomb, a review of American
casualty reports shows,” writes Drew
Brown. “While U.S. military officials have held briefings
to publicize their concerns about the potent bombs known as explosively
formed projectiles (EFPs) or penetrators, casualty reports suggest
that such weapons in the hands of Shiite militias are responsible
for a relatively small number of American deaths.”
(Article continues below)
U.S. officials have said that attacks with such weapons increased
150 percent in the past year. But a review of bombings by location
shows that less than 10 percent of attacks that killed at least
two American service members in the past 14 months were in areas
where Shiite militias are dominant…. Of the 81 roadside
bomb attacks that killed two or more soldiers from December
2005 through January 2007, one-quarter occurred in western Iraq,
which is predominantly Sunni, and nearly two-thirds took place
in Baghdad and other ethnically and religiously mixed areas,
the reports show. Fewer than 10 percent were in predominantly
Shiite areas.
Thus we are told Iran is not only supplying IEDs to Iraqi Shi’ites,
but the Sunni insurgency as well. “The U.S. military has
concluded that Sunni insurgents have acquired weapons from Iran,”
the World
Tribune reports. “U.S. commanders said Sunni insurgents,
including operatives from Al Qaida, have received Iranian-origin
weapons. The commanders said many of these weapons were believed
to have been acquired through the black market,” never mind
a paucity of evidence—but then neocons don’t need
evidence, as fabrication and lies will suffice, especially when
they are behind in their plan to reduce Iran to a smoldering ruin.
Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, commander of the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry
Division, gave the neocons a helping hand—or more likely
received orders from the neocon infested Pentagon, when he stated
earlier this week that “at least 50 Iranian agents”
are “operating in his area of responsibility in central
and southern Iraq. He said these operatives, both Iranian and
Iraqi nationals, were members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps.”
Excellent—if you’re a Muslim hating neocon, especially
following up on Bush’s plan to designate Iran’s Revolutionary
Guard as a terrorist organization, the “first time a foreign
military body has received that label,” as the neocon Reuel
Marc Gerecht notes for the American Enterprise Institute,
where Bush gets his criminal minds.
“Iran’s bloody role in Iraq has yet to be widely
acknowledged,” Reuel Marc Gerecht continues. “But
the clerical regime is killing U.S. soldiers there. Sophisticated
Iranian explosive devices wielded by Shiite insurgents are producing
ever-larger numbers of U.S. casualties. The brutal Mahdi Army
of Moqtada al-Sadr is probably now responsible for about half
of all U.S. combat deaths. Sadr, who visits Iran regularly, has
developed close ties to the mullahs. And Iranian Revolutionary
Guards have started training his henchmen inside Iraq. Tehran
also continues to back the Shiite Badr Brigades, the military
wing of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq. This
is increasing internecine violence in southern Iraq, where the
feeble British presence has nearly collapsed. Bloody confrontations
between the Mahdi and Badr gunmen are on the upswing.”
Indeed, such confrontations are part of the neocon plan to splinter
Iraq into three disparate parts based along ethnic and religious
lines. Moreover, for obvious reasons, Mr. Gerecht, a former CIA
Middle East specialist, does not bother to mention that Abdel
Aziz al-Hakim, who runs the “Badr gunmen” out of the
Iraqi Interior Ministry, is in fact a neocon stooge, so favored—despite
his association with Iran—he was allowed to travel to Houston
for cancer treatment. It should also be noted that SCIRI was selected
to receive funding through the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998. Gerecht
mentions none of this, of course, as the point here is to turn
the blame toward Iran, the next target.
As an aside, it should be noted that Gerecht, in an essay entitled
Iran: Fundamentalism and Reform, enthusiastically recommends attacking
Iran, if either the United States or Israel can convincingly make
a case that Iran is supporting terrorism, a process well advanced,
never mind how facile. “If Washington catches the Iranians
in a terrorist act,” writes the dedicated PNACer, “then the U.S.
Navy should retaliate with fury … If we attack, U.S. armed forces
must strike with truly devastating effect against the ruling mullahs
and the repressive institutions that maintain them. That is, no
cruise missiles at midnight to minimize the body count. The clerics
will almost certainly strike back unless Washington uses overwhelming,
paralyzing force.” In short, the U.S., if Gerecht and the
neocons have their way—and it certainly appears they will—should
spare no brutality against the people of Iran, same as they unleashed
murderous and even genocidal fury against the people of Iraq.
Finally, in an effort to crank up the heat, U.S. soldiers entered
the Sheraton Hotel in Baghdad and arrested seven Iranians working
for the Iranian Electricity Ministry soon after Bush delivered
his neocon generated speech. “President Bush specifically
stated that he had authorized his military commanders in Iraq
to confront what he called ‘Iran’s murderous activities’
in the country,” reports the BBC.
Obviously, rebuilding Iraq’s electrical grid, so effectively
decimated by the U.S. in March, 2003, is considered “murderous
activities” by the neocons who, of course, want nothing
less than collective suffering on the part of every Iraqi, Iranian,
and any other Muslim with the temerity to resist invasion and
occupation.
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