[antimedia] antimedia: Stunning news out of Iraq....

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Stunning news out of Iraq....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1167968131.shtml


   ....and it's not from [1]the antique media.

     There is no escape from the war Iran is waging against us, the war
     that started in 1979 and is intensifying with every passing hour.
     We will shortly learn more about the documents we found
     accompanying the high-level Iranian terrorist leader we briefly
     arrested in Hakimâs compound in Baghdad some days ago, and what we
     will learnâwhat many key American officials have already learnedâis
     stunning. At least to those who thought that Iran was âmeddlingâ in
     Iraq, but refused to believe that it was total war, on a vast
     scale.
     Several good journalists are working on this story (see, for
     example, [2]todayâs article by Eli Like in the NY Sun), and the
     outlines are pretty clear. First, we had good information that
     terrorists were in Baghdad, and had gone to the compound. We did
     not know exactly who they were. We entered the compound and
     arrested everybody who looked like a usual suspect. One of them
     told us he was the #3 official of the al Quds unit of the Iranian
     Revolutionary Guards Corps, a particularly vicious group. He was
     carrying documents, one of which was in essence a wiring diagram of
     Iranian operations in Iraq. That wiring diagram included both
     Shiâite and Sunni terrorist groups, and was of such magnitude that
     American officials were flabbergasted. It seems that our misnamed
     Intelligence Community had grossly underestimated the
     sophistication and the enormity of the Iranian war campaign.
     I am told that this information has reached the president, and that
     it is part of the body of information he is digesting in order to
     formulate his strategy for Iraq. If he sees clearly what is going
     on, he must realize that there can be no winning strategy for Iraq
     alone, since a lot of âIraqiâ activityânot just lethal materiel
     such as the latest generation of explosive devices, now powerful
     enough to penetrate the armor of most of our vehiclesâis actually
     Iranian in origin. We cannot âsolveâ the Iraqi problem without
     regime change in Iran.
     Those of you who have borne with me for the last few years will not
     be surprised to hear this; whatâs new is the apparently irrefutable
     evidence that has now providentially fallen into our hands. The
     policy makers will not like this evidence, because it drives them
     in a direction they do not wish to go. I am told that, at first,
     there was a concerted effort, primarily but by no means exclusively
     from the intel crowd, to sit on the evidence, to prevent it from
     reaching the highest levels. But the information was too explosive,
     and it is now circulating throughout the bureaucracy. (Emphasis
     mine.)

   First, anyone who withholds information from the President for any
   reason should be fired immediately. I don't care who they are --
   General or cabinet member, Democrat or Republican, bureaucrat or
   politician. It is an outrage that those who are supposed to protect us
   would withhold from the President information that is vital for him to
   make informed decisions.
   Secondly, the intelligence that [3]Dave Gaubatz gathered in southern
   Iraq early on, and which was routinely ignored by higher ups, is now
   completely confirmed and vindicated. That also confers greater
   credibility to Guabatz' continued complaints that his discovery of WMD
   in southern Iraq was routinely ignored and never seriously
   investigated.
   It is high time for our public employees to do their jobs. It is time
   for them to fulfill their constitutional obligation to protect us from
   our enemies by pursuing every lead, no matter where it takes them and
   by honestly evaluating the situation in Iraq and informing Congress
   and the public of precisely what is going on there.
   There now can be no doubt that we are at war with Iran. Will our
   leaders admit it? Will they do anything about it? Will the Democrats
   now close ranks for America? Will all the people who loudly proclaimed
   that we should have invaded Iran, not Iraq, now stand behind the
   President and support an escalation of the conflict to defend our
   troops against Iranian perfidy?
   Much hangs in the balance. The time for decisions and action is now.

References

   1. http://discerningtexan.blogspot.com/2007/01/ledeen-time-has-come-for-iran.html
   2. http://www.nysun.com/article/46032
   3. http://www.antimedia.us/dave_gaubatz/