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Date: July 3, 2007 1:56:09 AM PDT
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Subject: Dem Lieberman Joins GOP in McCain Singalong: "Bomb-Bomb-
Bomb, Bomb Iran!"
Lieberman says Iran is waging war against the U.S.
PETER URBAN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
07/02/2007 11:30:32 PM EDT
http://www.connpost.com/localnews/ci_6285780
WASHINGTON — Senator Joe Lieberman said Monday that the Iranian
government has "by its actions" declared war on the United States
and we should be prepared to respond with military action, if
necessary.
"Although no one desires a conflict with Iran, the fact is that the
Iranian government, by its actions, has declared war on us. And
while I sincerely hope that diplomacy alone can convince the
Iranian government to stop these attacks, our diplomatic efforts
are only likely to succeed if backed by a credible threat of
force," said Lieberman, an independently-elected Democrat.
Rand Beers, president of the National Security Network and former
national security adviser to the Kerry-Edwards 2004 campaign, said
that Lieberman has a right to raise the issue, but does not believe
military threats against Iran are appropriate at this time.
"I worry about the unwillingness of this administration to back any
of them up quite honestly," Beers said. "I am not sure the military
options we have on the table are either workable or credible."
The Connecticut senator issued a similar warning last month
claiming that Iran had provided training and weapons to Iraqi
insurgents that were used against American troops. Monday's call
came after U.S. military spokesman Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner
claimed that Iranian forces helped plan one of the most
sophisticated militant assaults of the Iraq war — a January raid in
which gunmen posed as U.S. security and launched an attack that
killed five U.S. soldiers.
Bergner also accused Iran of using its Lebanese ally, the Shiite
mitia Hezbollah, as a "proxy" to arm Shiite militants in Iraq.
The claims were an escalation in U.S. accusations that Iran is
fueling Iraq's violence, which the Iranian government has denied.
It was also the first time the U.S. military has said Hezbollah has
a direct role, which, if true, would bring a dangerous new player
into Iraq's conflict.
Bergner said a senior Lebanese Hezbollah operative, Ali Mussa
Dakdouk, was captured March 20 in southern Iraq. Dakdouk, a 24-year
veteran of Hezbollah, was sent to Lebanon "as a surrogate for the
Iranian Quds Force" to finance and arm militant cells to carry out
attacks on U.S. and Iraqi troops, he said.
The general also said that Dakdouk was a liaison between the
Iranians and a breakaway group led by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-
Sadr's former spokesman, Qais al-Khazaali.
Lieberman also said that members of Congress demanding a withdrawal
from Iraq should reconsider, given Bergner's revelations.
"The Iranian government wants to push the United States out of
Iraq. For Congress to mandate a retreat from Iraq will give the
Iranians exactly what they want most. A retreat would not only
represent a catastrophic defeat for the United States, but an epic
victory for Iran, Hezbollah, and the forces of Islamist terrorism,"
he said.
U.S. says Iran had a role in attack in Iraq
Hizballah is also suspected in deaths
July 3, 2007
ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070703/
NEWS07/707030356/1001/NEWS
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- On Monday the U.S. military accused Iran of a
direct role in a militant attack that killed five U.S. troops in
Iraq in January.
U.S. military spokesman Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner said the Quds
Force, part of Iran's Republican Guards, was seeking to build an
Iraqi version of Hizballah to fight U.S. and Iraqi forces and had
brought in [Lebanese] Hizballah operatives to help train and
organize militants.
"Our intelligence reveals that the senior leadership in Iran is
aware of this activity," Bergner said.
Iran has denied claims that it was backing Iraqi militants, and
Hizballah has denied having a role in Iraq.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini rejected
the allegations Monday, saying "American leaders have gotten into
the habit of issuing ridiculous and false statements without
providing evidence, with political and psychological aims."
But Bergner said an extensive Quds Force program was revealed
through [U.S.] interrogations of a Lebanese Hizballah suspect, Ali
Mussa Dakdouk, and an Iraqi militant, Qais al-Khazaali, along with
documents seized with them. Both men were captured in March in Basra.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack echoed
Bergner's charges, saying they were "another data point in what is
a troubling picture of Iranian negative involvement in Iraq."
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