(archived from Aug 17 2007)
by Scott Creighton
So, we have waited around and blogged and waved signs on street corners; we have hopped up and down while some little radio personality chanted “Inside job” on a megaphone… and the entire time this administration and it’s enablers, on both sides of the legislature, have been setting the stage for another pre-emptive strike in another sovereign nation, for oil and profits. And who is this criminal organization that supports “terrorists”? None other than Islamic Revolution’s Guards Corp; the largest branch of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s military. Something akin to the U.S. Army. But they also control the Basij. The Basij Resistance Force, as it is also known, is the all volunteer paramilitary established by the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979. They have a standing force of about 400,000 in active and reserve forces (think their reserves have been called up?) but the really interesting thing is that they have a volunteer base that numbers somewhere close to 11 million! That’s right; 11 fucking million! Now you add that the IRGC regulars and the other armed services branches and you start to see that the surge wasn’t nearly enough!
And President Bush is poking the hornets nest with someone else’s stick. He’s positioned 160,000 of our troops in a country that already hates us and now he’s decreed that the legitimate armed forces of Iran are “terrorists“. Why? Why would he set up our troops like that? Because someone (Chalibi?) says that they supply bomb material to Iraqi Insurgency? Because they trained some Hamas soldiers a few years ago? They have secret services divisions?
We secretly gave Israel 9 nukes that they still wink and nod about but won’t openly admit. Nukes. Not to mention the 30 billion in military aid we just signed the paperwork to give them this week (20 billion to Saudi Arabia (remember: 15 hijackers and Osama?)). Hell, Pakistan sent $100,000 to Atta right before the attacks, and they are now the #2 recipient of military aid from the US.
We trained Al Qaeda and sent money, weapons, and fighters to help them and the Taliban take Afghanistan from the Russians (and the Afghanis). Anybody remember the picture of Rumsfeld and Saddam? Taken right before we shipped materials for biological weapons of mass destruction to Iraq.



