Iran, Al Qaeda And Leftist Denial
May 14, 2008 — LIBERALS continue to slam Sen. John McCain for his supposed misstatement, back in March, that Iran is aiding al Qaeda terrorists in Iraq. In fact, there’s plenty of evidence of just that.
This week, Robert Naiman at the Huffington Post accused McCain of making this “totally unsubstantiated allegation.” In recent weeks, McCain’s been attacked on the same ground time and again - in the pages of the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, The New Republic and the British Guardian, to name a few.
McCain retracted the claim before the end of the press conference where he made it - which has lead the anti-conservative Media Matters for America to describe it as an “admittedly false claim.”
In fact, McCain was right the first time. Iran has helped al Qaeda, inside and outside Iraq, considerably - and still does.
Indeed, a source that Democrats generally deem unimpeachable, the 9/11 Commission, pointed to the al-Qaeda/Iran connection as dating back to at least ‘92. That’s when Iranian representatives met with al Qaeda leaders in Sudan and agreed to help with training - later provided by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in Lebanon to an unknown number of the terrorists.
And when al Qaeda relocated to Afghanistan in the mid-1990s, Iran provided transit for many of the group’s operatives - including, the commission believed, eight to 10 of the 9/11 hijackers.
What of al-Qaeda-in-Iraq? The last year or so has furnished much evidence of systematic and continuous Iranian support:
January 2007: US forces in Iraq captured members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, as well as documents indicating that the Guard was collaborating with al Qaeda inside Iraq.
March 2007: Kurdish forces in northern Iraq repelled the twelfth incursion from Iranian territory that year by an al Qaeda affiliate, Ansar-al-Islam.
April 2007: US forces operating against al Qaeda in Sunni neighborhoods of Baghdad found substantial amounts of Iranian-made weaponry.
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We even knew as far back as 2002 that there was an alliance between Iranian hardliners and Al Qaeda.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,198857,00.html
May 14th, 2008 at 5:51 amIs this a joke. Imadickwad is openly working against the US thru Al Sadr and the mahdi army(alias Quds force(alias revolutionary guard)). Wake up. John McCain knows what he said. He also knows he is right the first time. Iran supports Al Queda and any other camel jocky outfit that will help Iran defeat the US and Israel. America cannot afford to lose this war. If a democrat is elected this fall to president, and we prematurely withdraw our troops from Iraq, then we may as well start building bunkers and storing up supplies for the seige of America will begin. Gentleman, in case you have not heard, WW3 started at 9/11, our modern day Pearl Harbor, and we have not yet begun to fight. Anyone who thinks this global war can be finished by early withdrawal from Iraq is sadly mistaken.
The muslims are our enemy. Islamo fascisism is at war with America. Internal muslim groups in America are at war with
our way of life. They are determined to take over America by using our laws and political system against us. They are determined to implement sharia law.
This I am sure of, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, N Korea, Venezuela, Russia, China, are all bent on the destruction of the USA. Some by internal means, some by external means. Make no mistake, these people are not our friends. Some pretend to be. Look at what they do, not what they say….
May 14th, 2008 at 6:01 amTrue World War 3 IS happening. I never saw it like this until now. They continue to use our own freedoms against us, and are trying to take over as much political control as they can while fighting us in other regions.
It’s not a religious war. It’s a clash of civilizations. Islam vs Western. Fuck them, kill them all.
May 14th, 2008 at 9:08 am