Syria, Iran, Russia Slam Obama’s Strategy

[amandabeech]

6. Yes, Russia's doing it in Ukraine, and we're complaining like crazy and putting

economic sanctions on them.

According to NBC's Richard Engel speaking from Iraq last night on MSNBC after the President's address, the Iranian Army is really running the Iraqi Army. If you look around the net, you'll see more reports of just this.

The Iraqi Shia have been running the country. Maliki refused to deal with the Sunni Arabs or the Kurds, who are Sunni. He also had strong connections to Iran. The new guy is not much better.

The Iranians leading Iraqi Shia units are working with us now, but information is relayed through Iraqi channels. That may prove to be too cumbersome, and we will probably be dealing directly with some Iranian forces on the ground. It will happen, but it will be difficult to get the information.