Iraqi VP warns Iran against interference

SHUNEH: Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi warned Iran on Sunday against interfering in his country to safeguard its own national security.

â??Our role is to put pressure on Iran but I must be realistic about that. I know whoâ??s actually the troublemaker. Not only Iran and Syria and neighbouring countries. Many countries in fact,â?� Hashemi said in Jordan. â??The Iraqi issue is becoming a threat to global stability and regional stability so everyone should be very careful about what is going on.

â??For the benefit of the national security of Iran, Iran should not be tempted to interfere in my country. They should think seriously about that,â?� Hashemi said on the sidelines of a World Economic Forum on the Middle East. Asked about a meeting next week in Baghdad between US and Iranian envoys to discuss Iraqâ??s security, Hashemi said: â??At the end of the day I would like the Iranians to end their interference.â?�

The May 28 meeting is believed to be the first official encounter at ambassador level between arch-foes Iran and the United States in three decades. Washington accuses Iran of stirring sectarian violence in Iraq and supplying Iraqi fighters with roadside bombs which have killed or maimed many US soldiers. Iran denies the allegations and blames the US â??occupiersâ?� for the lack of security and instability in Iraq.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Saturday blamed Iraqâ??s volatile security situtation on the US troop presence. â??Sooner or later they (US) have to decide to withdraw their troops from Iraq because that is the cause for the continuation of terrorist activities,â?� Mottaki told delegates at the Dead Sea forum. Jordanâ??s King Abdullah II met separately on Saturday with Mottaki and Hashemi and warned that sectarian strife in Iraq threatens regional security, a palace statement said. afp
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

LMAO! He must not read this forum.......Iran would NEVER EVER do that!;)

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Jordanâ??s King Abdullah II met separately on Saturday with Mottaki and Hashemi and warned that sectarian strife in Iraq threatens regional security, a palace statement said. afp
In other words, "US GTF out of Iraq." We are not Allah, or God, Or any other entity that reigns supreme on this planet. It's time for The USA to protect the USA and leave Iraq to Iraqis. I don't want to hear bullshit about how we're making the US safer by being in Iraq. The exact opposite is true.

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There is one born every minute, an idiot. Those Marines are so brainwashed it's pathetic. you forget that I was in the military. I know the brainwash they lay on you, Semper Fi and all that bullshit. If you didn't brainwash the troops do you think they'd go face a combat situation. They are washed to hate the enemy when the real enemy is their own government. That is a pathetic excuse to promote solidarity with the war. Get over it, you are outvoted. the people want this debacle to end. In a democracy, the will of the people should prevail. The do-nothing congress has lost their minds to corporate greed and won't stop the war. A real Patriot would see the facts and bring our troops home, a Patriot like John Murtha!

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Get over it, you are outvoted. the people want this debacle to end.!

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How soon we forget the facts..........
http://boards.cannabis.com/politics/...ve-spoken.html

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Your dellusional P4B Poll: 58 percent want U.S Out Of Iraq WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Nearly six in ten Americans want to see U.S. troops leave Iraq either immediately or within a year, and more would rather have Congress running U.S. policy in the conflict than President Bush, according to a CNN poll out Tuesday.

Though support for Bush's decision to dispatch additional troops to Iraq grew to 37 percent -- up from 32 percent in a mid-January poll -- a slim majority of 52 percent say Congress should block funding for the new deployment.

The CNN poll was conducted Friday through Sunday by Opinion Research Corp. Pollsters interviewed 1,027 adults for the survey, which had a sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Bush announced in January that he was deploying another 21,500 U.S. troops to Iraq to crack down on the country's sectarian warfare and the Sunni Arab insurgency in the country's west. The White House approved the deployment of another 4,400 support troops over the weekend, largely to handle an expected increase in the number of Iraqi prisoners.

The decision remains unpopular, according to the latest poll, but opposition has declined since Bush announced it. This week's survey found that 59 percent opposed the president's plan, down from 66 percent in a poll taken Jan. 11, and support for it had grown from 32 percent to 37 percent.

Tuesday's poll found most Americans support a withdrawal from Iraq, with 21 percent wanting an immediate pullout and 37 percent saying troops should be home within a year. Another 39 percent said the troops should stay in Iraq as long as needed.

They were more closely divided on the issue of funding the president's "New Way Forward," with 52 percent saying Congress should block funds for additional troops and 43 percent opposing such a move.

The Democratic leadership in Congress has opposed the deployment, with the support of a handful of Bush's fellow Republicans. But efforts to use congressional control over spending to rein in the president have split the Democrats, particularly in the House.

The Democratic leadership plans to add a demand for withdrawal by the fall of 2008 -- or by the end of this year, if Bush is unable to show that the Iraqi government is meeting benchmarks for political progress -- to the president's emergency request for an additional $100 billion in war spending.

In a Monday speech to the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, Vice President Dick Cheney said even discussing withdrawal tells "the enemy to watch the clock and wait us out." (Full story)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, shot back that Cheney and Bush are advocating an "open-ended commitment" of U.S. troops against the advice of military leaders.

The White House and congressional Republicans have warned Democratic leaders against plans that would "micromanage" U.S. commanders in Iraq. But the latest survey finds Americans more receptive to having Congress take the lead, with 47 percent saying Congress should be "primarily responsible" for setting war policy. Only 33 percent said the president should be primarily responsible for setting the country's course.

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The Democratic leadership plans to add a demand for withdrawal by the fall of 2008 -- or by the end of this year, if Bush is unable to show that the Iraqi government is meeting benchmarks for political progress -- to the president's emergency request for an additional $100 billion in war spending.

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LMAO! Isn't that about the same time line that the Iraqi Government has been stating? It's so nice when they agree with their lil' faces all in the camera's like it was their idea. ;)

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