Sticking with the claims that the Iranian government is directly responsible for attacks by Shi’ite militias inside Iraq, Admiral Michael Mullen told the Senate Armed Services Committee today that the US won’t “sit idly by” and allow such attacks to continue.
At the same time, Mullen reported that attacks from the militias have actually declined recently. Though this was likely a function of Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s admonishment to followers not to attack US troops until December, Mullen seemed convinced this was because of threats he and Leon Panetta made in the past.
“They have been warned about continuing it,” Mullen insisted, though since he and the rest of the administration’s leadership are constantly threatening to attack Iran for myriad reasons it is unclear if this actually registered as a warning or simply the usual background noise of US-Iranian relations.
A secondary topic during his remarks to Congress was the prospect of the US actually withdrawing from Iraq, as mandated, at the end of December. Mullen’s comments, characteristic of the administration, were “we just don’t know.”
Root cause — “the of a good example” as Chomsky would say. For Iran has about the best democracy on earth and if all the oil rich nations were to get so moral, what Empire USA pumped out of its own ground, this is all the oil it would ever get. Keep in mind that 60% of the oil that US consumes — gets sucked into a black hole called the US military.
US has proff of nothing like usuall they are lieing trying to make Iran look as bad as possible sop they can go to war for there mastersd Israel.Anyone that thinks different is stupid and has not learnen a thing from recent history.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We know. Just because the playground bully is busy with picking on other little kids (the Palestinians) doesn't mean that they have forgotten about their plans of conquest for Iran. We know, we know, we know.