The Gloves are Coming Off

Anyone with half a brain knows that Iran is behind a lot of the terrorist acts in Iraq. And so far we have been nice to Iranians caught in Iraq causing trouble, not any more!

The Bush administration has authorized the U.S. military to kill or capture Iranian operatives inside Iraq as part of an aggressive new strategy to weaken Tehran's influence across the Middle East and compel it to give up its nuclear program, according to government and counterterrorism officials with direct knowledge of the effort.

For more than a year, U.S. forces in Iraq have secretly detained dozens of suspected Iranian agents, holding them for three to four days at a time. The "catch and release" policy was designed to avoid escalating tensions with Iran and yet intimidate its emissaries. U.S. forces collected DNA samples from some of the Iranians without their knowledge, subjected others to retina scans, and fingerprinted and photographed all of them before letting them go.

The new "kill or capture" program was authorized by President Bush in a meeting of his most senior advisers last fall, along with other measures meant to curtail Iranian influence from Kabul to Beirut and, ultimately, to shake Iran's commitment to its nuclear efforts. Tehran insists that its nuclear program is peaceful, but the United States and other nations say it is aimed at developing weapons.

No more Mr Nice Guy for Iranian terrorists, it's one "Stop", then lead, as it ought to be. If we can curtail Iran and Syria's involvement in Iraq, we may actually have a chance of stabilizing that country. And as for the Donk's "let's negotiate with Iran and Syria", the idea is absurd and you ought to ashamed of yourselves for coming up with something so stupid and harmful to our goal.

Cap 'em as you would a mad dog!


Mr Minority