PAT BUCHANAN: "PETRAEUS TESTIMONY POINTS TO WAR WITH IRAN"

Pat Buchanan, who once ran as an Independent for POTUS and is now a regular contributor on MSNBC news, says the testimony of General David Petraeus last week before Congress is a prelude for the US going to war with IRAN.

Petraeus Points To War With Iran

By Patrick J. Buchanan11/04/08 "WND"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19715.htm

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?"President Ahmadinejad and other Iranian leaders" promised to end their "support for the special groups," said the general, but the "nefarious activities of the Quds force have continued.

"Are Iranians then murdering Americans, asked Joe Lieberman:"Is it fair to say that the Iranian-backed special groups in Iraq are responsible for the murder of hundreds of American soldiers and thousands of Iraqi soldiers and civilians?""It certainly is. ... That is correct," said Petraeus.

The following day, Petraeus told the House Armed Services Committee, "Unchecked, the 'special groups' pose the greatest long-term threat to the viability of a democratic Iraq."Translation: The United States is now fighting the proxies of Iran for the future of Iraq.

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