Saturday, August 20, 2005

Iran’s who’s who

Michael Ledeen, knowledgeable of all things Iran, gives us a short biography of each of Iran’s new cabinet members (a bunch of crooks if there ever was one). In addition, he asks what we are going to do about Iran and its murderous activities (by their own admission, as I noted recently).

Meanwhile, the mullahs are killing us. Time published a long report from Baghdad on August 14, entitled "Inside Iran's Secret War for Iraq," which lays out chapter and verse of the mullahs' longstanding efforts — often coordinated with Assad's Syria — to drive us out of Iraq. It is the first time I've seen a major publication confirm what I reported months before Operation Iraqi Freedom: planning for the terror war against Coalition forces in Iraq "began before the U.S. invaded." And Time quotes a "British military intelligence officer about the relative inattention paid to the murderous Iranian activities. 'It's as though we are sleepwalking'."

It is high time we stop pretending that this is a normal regime negotiating honestly for its rights; we cannot expect Europe, with its shady affairs and skeletons-in-the-cupboard to act decisively. The US must act now in support of the Iranian people and in its own interests.

The seemingly inescapable fact is that Iran is waging war on us, we are well aware of it, and we are not responding, even though most Iranians are dreaming of the day that the United States supports them against the mullahs. Hardly a day goes by without anti-regime demonstrations in one Iranian city or another, involving students, workers, intellectuals, and even some very important clergymen. The number of Iranian dissidents on hunger strike is growing. Akbar Ganji hovers between life and death in a hospital in Tehran. Yet, aside from occasional statements of compassion, there is no hint of action from the Bush administration.

I think the President could do worse than listen to Micheal Ledeen when he says:

Enough already. Let's roll.

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