WHITE HOUSE SOURCE - "IRGC IED's are a casus belli for this administration, There will be an attack on Iran."

 

Both U.S. military projects were meant to mature by 2008. Over the next six months, officials said, the air force and navy would test weapons and concepts designed to achieve initial operational capability against Iran's military, particularly the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. 

2008? An attack in 2008? Can you just hear the dems now? "It's political ! It's about the election. Bush is taking us to war to win another election for the repubs" MOVEON:"Bush will CALL OFF th election and we ar ready to bring the govt down!"

"I've taken an informal poll inside the [U.S.] government," former CIA officer and author Robert Baer said. "The feeling is we will hit the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. We won't see American troops cross the border. If this is going to happen, it is going to happen very quickly and it is going to surprise a lot of people."

Baer said the administration has been alarmed by Iran's interference in Iraq, particularly by IRGC. He said elements in the administration believe that IRGC, which has supplied weapons and improvised explosive devices to Shi'ite and Sunni militias, has become the chief obstacle to U.S. efforts to stabilize Iraq.

"IRGC IED's are a casus belli for this administration," Baer quoted an anonymous White House source as saying. "There will be an attack on Iran."

On Aug. 27, French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned Iran of a military attack unless Teheran limited its nuclear program. In an address to foreign diplomats based in Paris, Sarkozy, regarded as the leading U.S. ally in Europe, did not say whether France would participate in such a strike.

Administration spokespeople, who acknowledge that President George Bush plans to sanction IRGC, have dismissed Baer's assertions. They said the United States has not contemplated military action against Iran.

Well those two highlighted statements sure clear it all up. 

"The president has made it quite clear that while no options are ever taken off the table, that we are pursuing a diplomatic strategy to deal with Iran," State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey said on Aug. 27. "But there's simply no truth to the story that somehow a possible designation of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard would be a prelude to or a cover for military action.

Still, officials said the U.S. military has been targeting the IRGC presence in Iraq. They said U.S. and Iraqi forces were detaining senior operatives of the IRGC-sponsored Special Groups, which has been distributing IEDs and weapons in the Baghdad area and southern Iraq. On Aug. 28, six Iranian officials were said to have been arrested in Baghdad.

"Coalition forces will continue their focused operations to interdict Iranian supported terror groups operating in Iraq," U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Christopher Garver said.

But Iran appears confident that the U.S. military would fail in its campaign to stabilize Iraq. On Aug. 28, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran would be ready to fill the power vacuum in Iraq.

It should be obvious to every living human with a brain, that Maliki has already made his choice, and it is Khomeini, not Jefferson. This is a message writ large with a cultural size pen.

"The political power of the occupiers is collapsing rapidly," Ahmadinejad told a news conference in Teheran on Aug. 28. "Soon, we will see a huge power vacuum in the region. Of course, we are prepared to fill the gap, with the help of neighbors and regional friends like Saudi Arabia, and with the help of the Iraqi nation."

Say hello to my little friend, Mahmoud. Here's looking at you, chum.