Entered into the database on Sunday, January 22nd, 2006 @ 16:38:52 MST
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.
