Ahmadinejad in Baghdad, Day II
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad began the second day of his state visit to Iraq on Monday. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called Iran's stance toward Iraq "helpful," contradicting his American allies.
The entire love fest of Ahmadinejad's visit underscores how George W. Bush has inadvertently opened the Iranian sluice gates. Iran is the regional victor in the Iraq War.
On Sunday, Ahmadinejad had jousted with Bush long-distance, saying that there hadn't been any terrorism in that part of the Middle East before Bush invaded Iraq.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said he hoped Ahmadinejad would stay in Iraq "a long time."
Talabani and al-Maliki pledged to try to expel the over 3,000 members of the Iranian terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) from their base at Camp Ashraf in Diyala Province. Although the US says that the MEK has been disarmed, the likelihood is that the real reason for US protection of this group is that it spies for the US on the ayatollahs in Tehran.
Ahmadinejad also called for cooperation in repressing the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), a branch of which has allegedly attacked Iran. But Ahmadinejad implicitly critiqued Turkey's recent incursion into Iraq, saying that whatever steps the neighbors take to fight the PKK, they should respect Iraqi sovereignty.
Al-Hayat notes in Arabic that Ahmadinejad is planning to go on a visitation to Najaf and Karbala and to consult with Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani.
Labels: Iraq
posted by Juan Cole @ 3/03/2008 12:30:00 AM
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I was very impressed by the fact that Ahmedinejad saw no problem in travelling by motorcade from Baghdad International airport to the Green Zone. Even the least US or UK diplomat or other personality would dare that even now. And there was no US security or helicopters overhead either. It was Kurdish Peshmerga.
I did wonder whether the US would take the opportunity to get rid of A., under the guise of an al-Qa'ida attack. But I suppose Talabani must have negotiated that with the US, before Ahmedinejad agreed to come.
"The third official energy meeting involving Iraqi, Turkish and U.S. officials began Friday in Istanbul, and though a top State Department official doesn’t expect “huge breakthroughs,” he hopes to see progress in developing a gas pipeline that will eventually feed Europe’s demand after edging out Russia and excluding Iran."iraqoilreport.com
Above from an article on US interest in Iraqi natural gas, revealing that trade/commerce lies very close to the foundation of US policy in mideast.
Ahmadinejad will hav a personal audience with the Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani? Isn't Sistani the fellow who received a letter from Our Dear Leader [/snark] President Bush and wasn't the letter still unopened a few weeks later?
Sounds like Iraq is being a MOST disrespectful puppet!
This article reminds me to think that everyone running for presidency and other positions should watch this video I found on YouTube. This artist is definitely not a fan of the war and watching the video just opens your eyes! It's obviously a big issue that we're dealing with and that our new office will have to deal with too!
I'm sure Bush, or those who support the war, would not be a fan! If you go to YouTube, type in 'Letters Home from the Garden of Stone', or here is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10ej46Mhshg
This is the net result of Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wofowitz/Rice/McCain war in Iraq.
A minimum of 150,000 Iraqis killed, 3 million made homeless, 3000 American soldiers dead and 30,000 maimed for life and the Bush Administration has delivered Iraq into the Iranian lap changing the balance of power in the Middle East forever.
No wonder Ahmedinajad is making noises, he has found the idiotic Bush Administration to do the dirty job for him.
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Ahmadi belongs behind bars for his crimes rather than being hailed as a leader of a country.
This fraud won the elections with 5 Million fake votes!
But when the world will kick him out?
MUST READ: David Rose in Vanity Fair details how Bush and Rice and Elliott Abrams screwed up big time with Fatah and Hamas.
This visit proves the absurdity of the fearmongering by McCain (and others, but their irrelevancy grows by the minute) about al-Qaeda, which has barely any support among Iraqi Sunnis, much less the majority Shi'ites. It is also worth mentioning that Ahmedinajab is hardly a dictator in any real sense; he is in control of neither the Iranian military nor his own occupancy of his office. To assassinate him would be worse than an empty gesture: we would lose our scapegoat for our failures throughout the Middle East. (I don't have to like the Iranian constitution to admit that it has demonstrated staying power beyond the life and prestige of any one person.)
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