Janaury 22, 2006
It appears the Straussian neocons ensconced in the Pentagon and in
the final planning stages of the shock and awe campaign against Iran,
on tap for March, have a new complication to consider: "Firebrand Iraqi
cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has assured Iran that his Shi’ite Muslim
militiamen will support the Islamic Republic if it comes under attack,
the official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday," Reuters
notes. "If neighboring Islamic countries, including Iran, should come
under attack, then the Mehdi Army will support them," Sadr said in
Tehran.
Sadr’s Mehdi Army or Jaish al-Mahdi consists of
roughly 10,000 militia who are in control of several areas of Iraq. In
April, 2004, Jaish al-Mahdi began an offensive in Najaf, Kufa, Kut, and
Sadr City after the closing of the Sadr-owned newspaper al-Hawza and
arresting of one of his senior aides. Jaish al-Mahdi was more or less
defeated and Sadr called for a ceasefire, however if Iran is attacked
and the occupation forces in Iraq come under attack (a foregone
conclusion), the re-activation of Jaish al-Mahdi will certainly
complicate things, to say the least.
But then this is what
the Straussian neocons desire—the turn up the heat in the Middle East
until it explodes into a full-fledged conflagration, thus forcing the
United States to go on a full-war (total war) footing.
Unfortunately,
when the dollar tumbles precipitously in March, and the shock and awe
campaign in Iran shuts down the world’s oil fix, and a depression
follows, the American people, hard-pressed and desperate, will do
whatever the government wants, including donating their first born to
the Straussian neocon plan for world domination, an impossible and
demented dream but one that will nonetheless kick off their plan for
World War Four.
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