Here was the story from Baghdad today...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287632,00.html?sPage=fnc.world/iran

Anyone that is really surprised just hasn't been paying attention. Iran has already used this same proxy to start another war not one year ago.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Israel-Lebanon_conflict http://www.historyguy.com/israel-lebanon_war_2006.html
In fact, their proxies are starting wars everywhere .http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1148287843526&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,281992,00.html
On top of that, the equipment, training, and cash for much, if not most, of the alphabet soup(IED, EFP, etc.) of homemade explosive devices that are killing our soldiers in Iraq originate in Iran ...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/11/iraq/main2458318.shtml http://politicsplusstuff.blogspot.com/2007/02/remember-those-efps-that-could-only.html http://billroggio.com/archives/2007/02/evidence_of_iran_sup.php
Why just a couple months ago, they went ahead and took some British Marines hostage http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/04/03/iran/index_np.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1563919.ece
I haven't even talked about the 400 lb. gorilla in the room yet. Yes, Virginia, Iran is upto no good and it is high time we do something to stop them.

Not at the Daily Kos...
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/6/26/32441/8059
They use this episode to take an opportunity to preemptively condemn the Republicans for rattling the sabers of Iran and war mongering.

It is of course in keeping. Guess who they were rooting for when Iran's proxy Hamas took on Fatah...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/6/15/153353/694
(can you root for neither side in a war?)

In Iran's other proxy war the Kos Kids weren't sure which side to take...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/6/15/153353/694
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/7/17/105541/434
Some believed that this melancholy was really more of a cynical spin job...
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=12464&R=EE5DCD
Not the Kos Kids, they would never act cynically...

For instance this isn't cynical, "And now Rupert Murdoch's paper The Sun has announced that Iran has invaded Iraq. Tom Newton Dunn - a reporter of some credibility and now "Defense Editor" at The Sun - has attached his name to this story. Other Conservative journals are no doubt picking it up as I write this, but I'm not going to encourage traffic to their sites." nor is this, "This is how they do it: Develop the message on the Right Wing, and move it bit-by-bit into the MSM, see how it works. On the Right Wing, bombing Iran is simply a fait accompli. The Neo-Con argument for bombing Iran is self-evident. Neo-cons either bomb Iran or there is no reason for Neo-cons to exist. Who else do they have to bomb? Republicans know they need to widen this Iraq war. That's why all the major Republican candidates are talking "victory". As long as you can keep adding enemies and dropping bombs on them, you don't ever have to admit you lost"

What's leading their pages today? "Scooter" Libby, you can't make this stuff up.
http://dailykos.com

It's almost nonstop today. This is the same group that uses every opportunity to question the legitimacy of Fox News as a source of news http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/7/11/24252/0443 http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/3/21/15251/3867
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/3/6/13482/03023
This is the same group that pressured the Democratic Presidential candidates to bow out of two debates sponsored by Fox News http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/3/6/175316/4348
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/2/21/125431/158
Now, that's Chutzpah...

By the way, what I didn't see in that diary about Iran was any solutions, just criticism, but that is also so unlike them...but I digress


One last thing, my response to that Daily Kos diarist is that, tecnically, most of the acts mentioned by Iran are acts of war http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_war
This is an important technicality to this diarist because I believe that the only response to an act of war is all out war, let alone multiple acts of war.


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