RUMSFELD HAS THE CHEEK TO BLAME IRAN FOR IRAQ CIVIL WAR

Well, I suppose it's another excuse to relieve Iran of all that troublesome oil.

So there's Rumsfeld in his Pentagon office, telling us things aren't that bad in Iraq. While the US envoy to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad who lives in Iraq is saying the opposite.

Who do you believe?

The man who helped to sell North Korea nuclear power, the man who helped to sell Iran nuclear power, and the man who helped to sell Iraq anthrax (there is even a photo of Rummy and Saddam looking lovingly into each others eyes when they meet to negotiate the sale), and who is now using these as reasons for war? It was also Rumsfeld who halved the number of troops requested by his Generals for the invasion of Iraq, thus leading to this current instability in Iraq. Rumsfeld is also making a very tidy sum from the H5N1 scare through sales of Tamiflu. Is it possible that Rumsfeld created a top secret project in the DoD to create and release H5N1, tricking the world into buying a product Tamiflu which is manufactured by a company in which he has a substantial share?

Anyway, Rumsfeld is blaming Iran for the Civil War. Despite reports that the Askariya mosque in Sammara was sealed off by Iraqi and US military hours before it was blown up, and despite reports that it was a professional demolition requiring hours to place the explosives in the correct places, Rumsfeld still blames Iran.

Does Rumsfeld know something we don't know? After all, in a press conference shortly after the attack on the Pentagon on 9/11 he did say the Pentagon was hit by a missile (which would explain the very suspicious lack of evidence of a large Boeing at the scene)!

From http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1725996,00.html

US envoy to Iraq: 'We have opened the Pandora's box'

· 80% of Americans think civil war likely
· Rumsfeld accuses Tehran of fomenting conflict

Julian Borger in Washington and Ewen MacAskill
Wednesday March 8, 2006
The Guardian


The US ambassador to Baghdad conceded yesterday that the Iraq invasion had opened a Pandora's box of sectarian conflicts which could lead to a regional war and the rise of religious extremists who "would make Taliban Afghanistan look like child's play".
Zalmay Khalilzad broke with the Bush administration's generally upbeat orthodoxy to present a stark profile of a volatile situation in danger of sliding into chaos.

Mr Khalilzad told the Los Angeles Times Iraq had been pulled back from the brink of civil war after the February 22 bombing of a Shia shrine in Samarra. However, another similar incident would leave Iraq "really vulnerable" to that happening, he said. "We have opened the Pandora's box and the question is, what is the way forward?" He added that the best approach was to build bridges between religious and ethnic communities.

An opinion poll published by the Washington Post and ABC News yesterday suggested that most Americans agreed with Mr Khalilzad - with 80% saying civil war in Iraq was likely, and more than a third that it was very likely. More than half thought the US should start withdrawing its troops, although only one in six wanted all troops to be withdrawn immediately.

Hours after Mr Khalilzad made his remarks, the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld accused Iran of dispatching elements of its Revolutionary Guard to stir trouble inside Iraq. Mr Rumsfeld said: "They are currently putting people into Iraq to do things that are harmful to the future of Iraq and we know it. And it is something that they, I think, will look back on as having been an error in judgment."