Bush Authorizes Killing of Iranians to Begin

[PopHistorian]

(http:/)/www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/01/26/us.iran.reut/index.html
(My sorry, sarcastic comments in green. I apologize in advance. I need to work on taming my emotional center when confronted with "news" like this.)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- President Bush has authorized the U.S. military to kill or capture Iranian agents active inside Iraq... (Gee, I hope Iran is understanding and doesn't get upset)

The newspaper said there were skeptics in the intelligence community, State Department and Pentagon, including CIA Director Michael Hayden, who said Iranians may try to kidnap or kill U.S. personnel in Iraq as payback. (Sore losers!)

The move, approved last fall, is aimed at weakening Iran's influence in the region and forcing Tehran to abandon its nuclear program... (OK, makes sense, we all know that if another nation's military starts killing your people abroad, you should stop striving for superior weapons)

For more than a year, U.S. forces have at times held dozens of Iranians for a few days, taking DNA samples from some as well as photographs and fingerprints from all... (I guess being tagged like an animal is a prelude to being hunted like one)

Several Iranian officials have been detained in three U.S. raids over the last month. Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad told reporters on Wednesday that details of accusations against them would be made public in the coming days... (As soon as they can get the story straight. I wonder if it will implicate an Iranian plot to hinder US "efforts" in Iraq?)

He said the raids were "going after networks" of security agents, which he said were a mainstay of Iran's involvement in Iraq... (Guess so. I wonder if those networks operate in the US or other countries?)

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice backed the plan... (More blood? Well sure, Condi's always up for that.)

The president has made clear for some time that we will take the steps necessary to protect Americans on the ground in Iraq and disrupt activity that could lead to their harm... (Here's an idea: to keep US soldiers safe, don't send them to Iraq.)

 

[ark]

The president has made clear for some time that we will take the steps necessary to protect Americans on the ground in Iraq and disrupt activity that could lead to their harm... (Here's an idea: to keep US soldiers safe, don't send them to Iraq.)

That reminds me Hitler protecting Germans on the ground in Poland (and in other occupied countries), by executing the population of these countries:

Between 1943 until 1944, the Konzentrationslager Warschau worked as a death camp to exterminate the Polish population of Warsaw. TheGentile population of Poland was a target of the łapanka policy, in which the forces of SS, Wehrmacht and police rounded up civilians on the street; between 1942 and 1944, there were approximately 400 victims of łapanka in Warsaw daily. During the existence of the KL Warschau, it is estimated that tens of thousands (IPN [1]) people were killed there, most of them Polish citizens of the city. Most of them were shot in a publicised reprisal executions of hostages or died due to bad health conditions in the camp and typhus epidemic; some were also gassed in gas chambers. Some historians, such as Maria Trzcińska, also postulate the existence of an enormous gas chamber in a railway tunnel at Bem Street; however, this claim is highly controversial. The very existence of the death camp part of the compound had been a public secret during the era of Communist rule in Poland. The reason was to inflate numbers of victims of the Warsaw Uprising, initiated by the patriotic Polish Home Army against the Germans in 1944, which was followed by a massive civilian casualties inflicted by the Nazis upon the city's population (see below).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_atrocities_in_Poland

All for "protecting Germans" - the same reasoning.

 

[Al Today]

I am saddened by all the people on this BBM that just don't "see" what is going on.
I don't prophesy anything.
But I am continually amazed while watching these world events unfold.
And say to myself, 'yep, that figures...'
I surely do not want to go back asleep.
I hate pain.
But I think there will be some pain on the horizon.
I'll eventually have to see if I'm as brave as I only hope I am.
But until then...

 

[Redrock12]

People are truly asleep when they permit their government to commit such incredible vile deeds against another population and do absolutely nothing about it.
In the small Canadian city I live in, people go about their daily lives as if nothing mattered except hockey, cars, the price of gasoline, and how much money you make. And they swallow hook, line, and sinker the crap that the Harper regime passes off as news: that we've got to stand behind that butcher Bush in his "war against terrorism" by sending more Canadian troops to Afghanistan.
Truly appalling!

 

[Nienna]

What better way to 'get the dirt' on someone than by a setup? They may find Iranian spies, or they may just pick someone at random, and accuse them of being a spy and plant their well-made up evidence on them. And you notice that it says they have been given the authorization to kill (first choice) or capture (if they have to). What better way to plant evidence than on a dead man?

This whole thing just stinks.

And as has been said before, the fact that people just don't get it, or even worse, don't care to get it is truly appalling.

 

[Ruth]

What better way to 'get the dirt' on someone than by a setup? They may find Iranian spies, or they may just pick someone at random, and accuse them of being a spy and plant their well-made up evidence on them. And you notice that it says they have been given the authorization to kill (first choice) or capture (if they have to). What better way to plant evidence than on a dead man?

This is just one step up from what they did in Afganistan? Kidnapping all those supposed muslim 'terrorists', incarcerating them, and torturing them in a foreign country - all in the name of 'freedom and democracy'... Pity the CIA had to pay 'informers' (aka: poor people) for all that rubbish and corrupt information.

Was this 'one step up' meant to be a cheaper solution than the rendition programs they had in operation, or just a 'precurser' to declaring war on Iran?

There's no doubt about it, some people in this world (who should know better) are really wretched and debased forms of humanity. How did they ever get in control?