Bush gives US troops authorization to kill Iranians within Iraq. Money quote:
"The Bush administration has authorized the U.S. military to kill or capture Iranian operatives inside Iraq as part of an aggressive new strategy to weaken Tehran's influence across the Middle East and compel it to give up its nuclear program, according to government and counterterrorism officials with direct knowledge of the effort.
For more than a year, U.S. forces in Iraq have secretly detained dozens of suspected Iranian agents, holding them for three to four days at a time. The "catch and release" policy was designed to avoid escalating tensions with Iran and yet intimidate its emissaries. U.S. forces collected DNA samples from some of the Iranians without their knowledge, subjected others to retina scans, and fingerprinted and photographed all of them before letting them go."
See right here is the reason why I'm for a pull out in Iraq..."catch and release?" It's a shitty way to fish and an even shitter way to wage a war. I don't believe we should have "gone to war" in the first place, but much like the Surge or Plus Up or whatever you want to call it, our strategy has been one of fighting with one hand tied behind or back (or half our brain, which ever analogy you wish). Either fight the damm thing or get out. Jezz!
Note: "The Bush administration has authorized the U.S. military to kill or capture Iranian operatives inside Iraq as part of an aggressive new strategy to weaken Tehran's influence across the Middle East and compel it to give up its nuclear program" To Washington: Don't matter how many Iranian operatives you kill or capture, they're not giving up their program. We still haven't pulled out of Iraq no matter how many of our soldiers have been killed or captured, and unlike Iran we're actually supposed to care for our own.
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