Three of the Senate’s most hawkish members visited Iraq on Wednesday to threaten Baghdad with damaged relations with Washington if it continues to allow Iran to send weapons to the Syrian government over Iraqi airspace.
Sens. John McCain, Joseph Lieberman, and Lindsey Graham sat with the Iraqi foreign minister and other officials to pressure them to block Iran from making weapons deliveries to the embattled Syrian regime over Iraqi airspace. But Iraqi officials came back demanding evidence of this accusation.
An Iraqi government spokesman said Iran has told Baghdad the flights to Syria are only delivering humanitarian aid, adding that the burden of proof is on the US to prove Iran is shipping weapons.
“Bottom line, this kind of problem with these Iranian overflights can make it more difficult to proceed with the Strategic Framework Agreement in the manner that the prime minister and we would like to see happen,” Lieberman told reporters in Baghdad. “So I hope this is cleared up quickly.”
Even as the US sent three of its most belligerent war hawks to Baghdad to get Iraq to stop being complicit in alleged arming of the Assad regime, Washington continues to be complicit in sending arms into Syria as well – except to the criminal rebel militias instead of the regime.
What gives the US and its allies the right to send aid and weapons to the Syrian opposition, while such actions are prohibited for Iraq or Iran, is not clear. The same hypocrisy holds in almost every case of international relations. What is acceptable and just for America, is cruel and nefarious for its enemies.
Iraq is asking for evidence? They're right to ask since it was the US that invaded and occupied their country over false claims of WMDs, ties to al-Qaeda and a role in the 9/11 attacks. Why should Iraq trust in anything the US says after what happened to them and they had to endure for these many years?
When all is said and done with this 'situation', perhaps it'll turn out that Saddam's missing WMDs were actually hidden under Assad's mattress at the Tishreen Palace this entire time…
Perhaps the Three Amigos would like to investigate and table this possibility now…
If it turns out that Assad prevails at the end of the day in all of this, maybe Larry, Curly, and Moe here will make speeches from the US Senate floor demanding term limits be incorporated into the Syrian Constitution?
"If it turns out that Assad prevails at the end of the day in all of this, maybe Larry, Curly, and Moe here will make speeches from the US Senate floor demanding term limits be incorporated into the Syrian Constitution?"
How about their committing "sepuku" instead?
When Lieberman gives up his dual citizenship (israeli/American) and decides who's side he is on, I will maybe give his public posturing some time. Why we Americans are required to pay for his work on behalf of the Israel government (business class travel to Iraq and back) is beyond the pale. McCain, as a non-believer, is simply one that pursues his own interests as a warhawk. And LIndsey is just a Kooky Kristian who wants Israel to control all the West Bank, to rebuild the temple and to hasten the return of Christ so that the Zionist will recognize their true Messiah. Try to blend all those avenues into a coherent foreign policy?
"What gives the US and its allies the right to send aid and weapons to the Syrian opposition, while such actions are prohibited for Iraq or Iran, is not clear."
It's known as American exceptionalism. Which means that America has the right to violate any and all recognized laws, (both domestic and universal) under the guise of providing humanitarian aid assistance to the oppressed people of the world.
You people are to honest, they might take you on your words and start blaming you for the shipment of arms to Syria via Iran. But isn't it also true that Turkey is a state sponsored terrorist sending arms and training terrorists in Syria as well Saudis and Qatar and Jordan and others.
US made arms is everywhere to see, so is English and French and even might be a Swedish arms (Shoulder missile launcher) shipped to Turkey then to Syria in hands of terrorists fighting a legitimate government chosen by the Syrian people, all that makes these countries THE stat sponsored terrorists.., so what was the question…?
After being Shock and Awed, occupied for nine years, brutalized and wrecked, Iraq just can't wait to kick the US in the b*lls. So much for our violent winning of hearts and minds. Every time we supposedly bring "freedum and demokracy" to a country we make an enemy for life – and who can blame them? Will we ever learn that our endless wars of aggression are counter-productive?
These three are the most unpatriotic examples of the complicit US government, and its phoney war on Muslims via Israel. They should be made to walk by themselves through Baghdad with no protection, and see just how hated they are by the entire country. Most Americans would thank Iraq for dismissing these hoodlums.
Those three warmongers need to be sanctioned by the American news media.
Oh, oh. Bosses in Tel Aviv and DC ain't gonna like that. No sirie Bob.