fighting in iraq

Again - April Fool's:

The Iranian general who helped broker an end to nearly a week of fighting between Iraqi government forces and Shiite Muslim militiamen in southern Iraq is an unlikely peacemaker.

Brig. Gen. Qassem Suleimani, who helped U.S.-backed Iraqi leaders negotiate a deal with radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr to stop the fighting in Iraq's largely Shiite south, is named on U.S. Treasury Department and U.N. Security Council watch lists for alleged involvement in terrorism and the proliferation of nuclear and missile technology.

His role as peacemaker, which McClatchy first reported Sunday, underscores Iran's entrenched political power and its alliances in Iraq, according to analysts.

All we hear about from this administration is how Iran is trying to destabilize Iraq and works against us. Now we see it was an Iranian general who put an end to last week's fighting. Just another case of believe the opposite of what your told from Bush.

So while our troops are fighting in Iraq, have you ever
wondered where the anthrax Saddam surpassingly had come from? We all know that
in the end it came from the United States during the 1980’s when we supplied
Saddam with the chemical in order to fight Iran, but we can now trace it back
even further. From this mornings
London Times:

A BRITISH cow that died in an Oxfordshire field in 1937 has
emerged as the source of Saddam Hussain’s “weapons of mass destruction”
programme that led to the Iraq war.

 An ear from the cow was sent to an English laboratory,
where scientists discovered anthrax spores that were later used in secret
biological warfare tests by Winston Churchill.

The culture was sent to the United States, which exported
samples to Iraq during Saddam’s war against Iran in the 1980s. Inspectors have
found that this batch of anthrax was the dictator’s choice in his attempts to
create biological weapons.

The discovery has angered some British politicians. Austin
Mitchell, the Labour MP for Great Grimsby, has renewed his call, supported by
126 MPs in the last Parliament, for a UN investigation into whether Washington
broke a weapons control agreement. “It just makes them look more hypocritical
than ever,” he said.

The odyssey of the Iraqi anthrax was unravelled by Geoffrey
Holland, a politics student and antiwar campaigner at the University of Sussex.
The exact batch chosen by Saddam was disclosed in the CIA report by Charles
Duelfer, the former UN weapons inspector, last autumn.

Why is it that the Senate Intelligence Committee is holding their hearings in
secret, behind close doors, debating the changes to make to the Patriot Act? Do
they feel that the terrorists might keep up on it and get a heads up on what
could come out of it? Nah..I don't think so. In fact it is my opinion that they
are being so secretive on the changes to the Patriot Act because they know if
Americans found out the plans they have for it, it could cause an up rise of
pissed of patriots in the United States.

Ok we are out fighting in Iraq trying to spread democracy and freedom.
Soldiers are dying for this cause. Citizens are dying for this cause. This
campaign is costing this country billions and destroying our image around the
world. But in a secret room in the Capitol, some of our very own elected
officials, the people we put in power to represent us are trying to shred our
right even further by giving the FBI greater power over subpoenas without
judicial oversight.

The first Patriot Act has already come under heavy fire from groups such as
the ACLU. It is coined as being a reduction of rights in America. Even in
Michael Moore's award winning documentary Fahrenheit 911 he talks about a group
in California being infiltrated by law enforcement and considered a threat
because of their actions. Actions like sitting around, supporting Democratic
candidates and eating pies. These are horrible terrorists in deed.