Talk Good!
Supreme Ayatollah Ali Khamanei: “The Iranian foreign ministry, at the request of Iraq, decided to participate in face-to-face talks with the United States and remind them of their duties and responsibilities over the security of Iraq.”
Sounds reasonable. Why have we not sat down with these people sooner?
Exactly what is the U.S. ambassador going to say to the Iranian ambassador and vice versa? Cheney:
I can’t predict what’s going to happen. The President made the decision that we will have these talks at the ambassadorial level in Baghdad, and we’ll see what it produces. But again, the point here to be emphasized is this is about specifically the situation ongoing in Iraq and Iran’s, we think, illicit activities inside Iraq, and not any other issue …
I think the important thing is that Iran has become the major source of instability in the region. We saw them last summer support Hezbollah’s attacks on the Israelis. We see them active in terms of resupplying Hezbollah and working through Syria. Syria has, in effect, become an ally of Iran working inside the Arab world. That’s got a lot of people out here very upset. We see obviously continued support by them for Hezbollah. They’ve been and have been for a long time a prime state sponsor of terror.
And then, of course, there’s the whole nuclear issue in addition to the activities they’re undertaking inside Iraq. We have in recent weeks cracked down inside Iraq and arrested some Iranian Quds Force personnel that we caught operating inside Iraq.
The decision the President made is that there will be conversations at the ambassadorial level on the issue of what Iran is doing in Iraq. Meanwhile, there are all these other issues that are of concern to us and obviously we need to take action to make certain that we safeguard our interests.
Some people think Cheney’s getting ready to give away the bank. Sure doesn’t look like the White House plans to stand by Wolfowitz.
Topics: Iran
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:43 am on Wednesday, May 16, 2007
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May 16th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
and remind them of their duties and responsibilities over the security of Iraq.
Ah. So these “talks” are really just the Ayatollah preaching at us that we are infidels who should give up and go home and let them have their way. Same old. It appears that we will accept this revealed wisdom, but I’m holding out for hoping that our side has taken a page from the Iranian book: smile and talk, while stabbing them in the back.
May 16th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Stabbing and shooting, Rebecca. Let’s not limit the options, eh?
May 16th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
I think we ought to take a page from that old story about the mule–you know, the one about knocking him up side the head first, just to get his attention. . . . Knocking first, then instructions.
May 16th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
You people need to learn some history - not the patriotic indoctrination you were brainwashed with in school.
Also:
An Open Letter To President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Senators Bond, McCaskill, Rep. Graves & The Entire Congress:
Have a draft or end the war. This is a wealthy nation of 300 million people and there is no excuse why they cannot replace equipment and make the people – especially the ones who were in such fervor to start this war – fight it.
It has been reported that the northern commander in Iraq says “he did not have enough troops for the mission in increasingly violent Diyala province.” The surge is no surge at all and only increases the risks to troops, both the ones who are “taking the fight to the enemy” in Baghdad and the ones who are left short-handed in other provinces.
The administration ignored advice from military experts before the war that it would take several hundred thousand troops to occupy a country the size of Iraq. The Army’s new counterinsurgency manual calls for as many troops to occupy Baghdad alone, as are in the entire country. The so-called surge does not get it.
Another report says, “Scores of civilian deaths from heavy U.S. and allied reliance on air strikes to battle Taliban insurgents are threatening support for the Afghan government and creating strains within the alliance.” We have heard so many times that we can’t give up or it all will have been in vain. What do you call this?
May 16th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
What do you call this?
Nice that you comment here Nancy. Jules, did you know Pelosi comments here?
May 16th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
You people need to learn some history - not the patriotic indoctrination you were brainwashed with in school.
And what school did you go to, Karennkc? How, exactly, did your education make you superior in knowledge and outlook? Particularly since you are calling for a draft, which no one in their right mind would wish to see again?
May 16th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Poor old Cheney.
Ran outta gas before the end of his term.
What a pathetic clown.
May 16th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
Islamists always believed the U.S. was weak. Recent political trends won’t change their view.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010080
OH and if wasn’ t for the Commies Dick Cheney, wouldn’t have had heart surgery. They invented all this stuff, in fact the Commeus invented the heart, yeah the real one.
alphie
May 16th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Oh, come on, El.
Dead-eye Dick complaining about Iran meddling in the affairs of Iraq has got to be one of the lamest jokes he’s told in the last 6 years.
May 17th, 2007 at 6:39 am
“Why have we not sat down with these people sooner?”
We should let our bombers do our talking for us.
“Have a draft”
Obviously, a Democrat talking. They love the idea of conscripting folks, be it to pick cotton or fight wars.