The Iranian Connection

I opened up this morning's Sacramento Bee to see an above-the-fold AP news story on the front page about the circumstances surrounding the demise of four of our brave soldiers in Iraq. Recently, in the city of Karbala, an American-manned outpost was attacked, and five U.S. soldiers were killed. Now, we are starting to find out more details. One soldier was killed outright during the fighting. The other four U.S. soldiers, however, were found dead with bullets in their heads more than 20 miles from the scene of the firefight. It turns out that these soldiers had been captured/kidnapped, then ruthlessly executed later on.

But that's not all. The "insurgents" (terrorists) who did this were able to gain access to these American soldiers by driving up to the front gate driving black Suburban SUVs and wearing the full regalia of American combat fatigues and equipment. The terrorists even spoke English. Their ruse was believable enough to get them through the front gate, and then the shooting began.

When I read this story in the Bee, my first thought was where did these terrorists get the money and training to pull off this operation? It takes quite a bit of funding to obtain several Suburban SUVs, American uniforms and combat equipment, American weapons, and the opportunity to train and rehearse for such an operation. I always hear how these terrorists in Iraq are terrorists in the first place because they can't get a job and are enraged by their poverty and circumstances, so what gives? I came to the immediate conclusion that the government of Iran has got to be behind this operation. They have already begun to be implicated more and more with supporting the terrorists we are fighting in Iraq, with President Bush (finally) authorizing the other day for our troops to engage and kill any Iranian agents they run across within the borders of Iraq, and I surmised that this is exactly something that Iran would be behind. After doing a little surfing this afternoon, it turns out that I am not the only one to come to this conclusion.

Here is a link from HotAir.com to a story by blogger Bill Roggio, who has spent months in Iraq with our troops. According to Roggio's sources, Iran's fingerprints are all over this atrocity, and if this is truly the case, what is our government going to do about it? We have been wussy-footing around with Ahmad-Ima-whackjob for long enough already. What will it take for our elected leaders to finally grow the cajones necessary to buck oh-so-enlightened world opinion, and take out this wanna-be Hitler?

On another note, this is another example of the true face of our enemy. When we capture enemy combatants, they get a paid vacation to the Cuban tropics where they gain weight while in captivity, and they get a cell with an arrow painted on the floor indicating the direction of Mecca. When our troops' actions go beyond that, such as the Abu Ghraib scandal, the offenders are punished and the New York Times runs stories about the "abuses" and "torture" for literally months on end.

When our troops are captured by the enemy, they are either executed on the spot, or they are taken somewhere to be tortured first, then executed, either by being shot or beheaded. Where are the months of New York Times stories about that? The double standard on the part of the mainstream media (Fox News excluded) absolutely sickens me.

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