From Allah:
US media is picking up a story form last year about an Iranian incursion into Iraq that looks like a snatch mission. Time reported yesterday:
A short Army press release issued on the day of the skirmish offered the following information: U.S. soldiers from the 5th Squadron 73rd Cavalry 82nd Airborne were accompanying Iraqi forces on a routine joint patrol along the border with Iran, about 75 miles east of Baghdad, when they spotted two Iranian soldiers retreating from Iraqi territory back into Iran. A moment later, U.S. and Iraqi forces came upon a third Iranian soldier on the Iraqi side of the border, who stood his ground. As U.S. and Iraqi soldiers approached the Iranian officer and began speaking with him, a platoon of Iranian soldiers appeared and moved to surround the coalition patrol, taking up positions on high ground. At that point, according to the Army’s statement, the Iranian captain told the U.S. and Iraqi soldiers that if they tried to leave they would be fired on. Fearing abduction by the Iranians, U.S. troops moved to go anyway, and fighting broke out. Army officials say the Iranian troops fired first with small arms and rocket-propelled grenades, and that U.S. troops fell further back into Iraqi territory, while four Iraqi army soldiers, one interpreter and one Iraqi border guard remained in the hands of the Iranians.
What’s amazing about this is the opening paragraph from the article:
The soldiers who were there still talk about the September 7 firefight on the Iran-Iraq border in whispers. At Forward Operating Base Warhorse, the main U.S. military outpost in Iraq’s eastern Diyala Province bordering Iran, U.S. troops recount events reluctantly, offering details only on condition that they remain nameless. Everyone seems to sense the possible consequences of revealing that a clash between U.S. and Iranian forces had turned deadly. And although the Pentagon has acknowledged that a firefight took place, it says it cannot say anything more. “For that level of detail, you’re going to have to ask the [U.S.] military in Baghdad,” says Army Lieut. Col. Mark Ballesteros. “We don’t know anything about it.”
If Bush was the warmonger that some people claim why wasn’t this pushed hard by the Administration? Perhaps because Bush is trying diplomacy, missing the lesson of Jimmuh and the Mullahs? Perhaps he is worried that without more evidence, without a bigger incident, that the Left will say he is a warmongering liar? Perhaps a mix of both.
Recent history has taught us several things. The first is that negotiation without threat of force with the Mad Mullahs is pointless; and the second is that Iranian assault boats could be attacking the Staten Island Ferry and the moonbats will still claim that Dubya is a warmongering liar.
We are being endangered by an Administration that is hamstrung by the Loony Left. It began with their anger at the results of Florida 2000 and their desire to destroy Bush is so great that they are now impacting the Commander-in-chief’s ability to defend the nation.
It is way the fuck PAST time that patriotic Americans stand up! Jesus Christ in Heaven! We …Oh, screw it. Say goodbye America, nice knowing you.