SAUDIS IN IRAQ, TOO (Not Just Iran!)

This is pretty much a riot, actually.

So, everyone's chomping at the bit to go into Iran now, right? And everyone's talking about how there are all of these external fingers in the Iraq pie now, right? And if we left now, the evildoers would win.

Well, there's an amusing story that's going on in the back ground. DemocracyNow.Org is [http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/16/1330225|reporting] on [http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-saudi15jul15,1,7067890.story?ctrack=1&cset=true|a July 15, 2007 article] on the fact that half of the foreign fighters that have been nabbed in Iraq are from Saudi Arabia and that the number from Iran are much smaller. In fact, the number of Iranians is smaller than the Syrians and Lebanese in Iraq. But don't let me just quote numbers to you--have a look at a cutting that is the source of said numbers:

Although Bush administration officials have frequently lashed out at Syria and Iran, accusing it of helping insurgents and militias here, the largest number of foreign fighters and suicide bombers in Iraq come from a third neighbor, Saudi Arabia, according to a senior U.S. military officer and Iraqi lawmakers.

About 45% of all foreign militants targeting U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians and security forces are from Saudi Arabia; 15% are from Syria and Lebanon; and 10% are from North Africa, according to official U.S. military figures made available to The Times by the senior officer. Nearly half of the 135 foreigners in U.S. detention facilities in Iraq are Saudis, he said.

Pretty neat, huh?

So, Lieberman going on about how Iran is a threat and they are behind bombings in Iraq and that's why we should do something "militarily" about them is just Joe living up to his name.

Joe Lieberman

It would be funny if it weren't so lame.

Here's the part to remember:

As with Iraq, none of the threats the USG is quoting are actual threats.

New war, same as the old.

The added irony here is that the Saudis are our ally in tWAT and are actually supplying terrorists to go up against...us in Iraq.

Do we have a bunch of sociopaths as leaders or what? .

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