IRAN is the solution to problems in Iraq?
In another one of Bush’s inexplicable decisions, the United States is going to participate in a regional conference in Iraq that is headlined by…. IRAN!
Give me a freaking break! Iran is killing our soldiers! Iran is blowing up civilians! Iran is shipping weapons and bombs into Iraq faster than Mexicans are coming into the USA! And now, suddenly, we think that they are going to help stabilize the region? The only way Iran could help stabilize anything is if they have been bombed into oblivion by the USA.
From the article:
BAGHDAD (AP) - Iran agreed Sunday to join the U.S. and other countries at a conference on Iraq this week, raising hopes the government in Tehran would help stabilize its violent neighbor and stem the flow of guns and bombs over the border.
In an apparent effort to drive home that point, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told an Iranian envoy that the persistent violence in Iraq - some of it carried out by the Shiite militias Iran is accused of arming - could spill over into neighboring countries, including those that are “supposed to support the Iraqi government.”
Iraq’s other neighbors as well as Egypt, Bahrain and representatives of the five permanent U.N. Security Council members have agreed to attend the meeting Thursday and Friday in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Sheik.
The conference will also include Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, raising the possibility of a rare direct encounter between high-level U.S. and Iranian officials…
