ON FOX: Kahmeni offers assistance to US in Iraq, WTF?

[Sailor for Warner]

Granted it is on Fox News, but the word is that an aide to Iran's Supreme Leader (Kahmeni) has made a secret offer to the President last night to help the US stablize Iraq. It's motivation is to get the US out of the region quicker.

[Sailor for Warner]

1. Ok seriously

Id like to hear what anyone thinks about this?

[uppityperson]

2. I don't pay attention to FOX or speculate on their propaganda. nt

[Selatius]

3. My guess: They want us to leave so they can move closer to Iraqi Shi'ites

This will give Iran a bigger foothold inside Iraq. I'm sure Turkey wants the same thing except for the opposite reason: To prevent Northern Iraqi Kurds from establishing a democratic republic if the rest of Iraq fragments. Turkey does not want to crush the Peshmerga fighters when they're allied with US forces at the moment.

[Sailor for Warner]

4. Oh yeah

A Kurdistan would be a disaster for Turkey. Somethimes I think that dividing Iraq would have been better, but that damn Persian/Arab thing gets in the way. I think it is all we can do just the keep the Kurds from paking up and taking their toys back home to declare independence. That would be super fun because if the Kurds in Turkey rebel in order to join an independent Kurdistan than Turkey would probably do something stupid like activating NATO. Boy owuldnt that be fun.

[leveymg]

5. Entirely consistent with other events in the last few weeks.

Does Zarqawi Death Signal Bush Made a Deal With Iran?
Edited on Thu Jun-08-06 08:06 AM by leveymg
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1379644
It's widely conceded within the U.S. intelligence community that Abu Musab al Zarqawi, a Sunni militant, has served as an asset in U.S. efforts to slow Iran's consolidation of control over Southern Iraq.

His killing by a U.S. air strike, following a tip received from the Shi'a controlled Iraqi gov't, comes immediately after an apparent deescalation in tensions between Washington and Iran.

Zarqawi, a Jordanian national, commanded Sunni militia responsible for numerous terrorist attacks targeting religious sites and the population of the 60 percent Shi'a majority in Iraq.

As ABC reported last year, the Bush Administration went out of its way to preserve Zarqawi as an ace up its sleeve to counter the Iranian-allied Shi'a majority regime that would likely succeed Saddam Hussein. According to ABC:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1627197.ht...
May 1, 2006.

Abu Musab al Zarqawi ... Former spy says the US had the terrorism figure in its sights.

Bush turned down chances to kill Zarqawi: ex-CIA spy

A former top CIA spy says the United States deliberately turned down several opportunities to kill terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the lead-up to the Iraq war.

Mike Scheuer headed the CIA's bin Laden unit for six years before resigning in 2004.

He has told the ABC's Four Corners program the Bush administration had Zarqawi in its sights almost every day for a year.

SNIP

Today, The Guardian (UK) reported that Iraqi PM, Nouri al-Maliki, a Shi'a, announced that Zarqawi had been "eliminated" after high officials in the Shi'a dominated Iraq regime tipped off the U.S. military to his location. Zarqawi had previously escaped numerous efforts by American forces to locate and kill him. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1792817,00.html

The death of Zarqawi comes just as an apparent Bush Administration shift away from threats of military action against Iran toward a diplomatic solution to rising U.S.-Iranian tensions.

Far from the huge victory for the U.S. military that this is being portrayed, the killing of Zarqawi marks the beginning of the end of U.S. attempts to control the outcome in Iraq, and a compromise with Iran, which will surely now move to consolidate control over oil-rich majority Shi'a areas of southern and central Iraq.
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2006. Mark G. Levey