No real surprise here. "Hezbollah Said to Help Shiite Army in Iraq," by Michael R. Gordon and Dexter Filkins in the New York Times, :
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 — A senior American intelligence official said Monday that the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah had been training members of the Mahdi Army, the Iraqi Shiite militia led by Moktada al-Sadr.The official said that 1,000 to 2,000 fighters from the Mahdi Army and other Shiite militias had been trained by Hezbollah in Lebanon. A small number of Hezbollah operatives have also visited Iraq to help with training, the official said.
Iran has facilitated the link between Hezbollah and the Shiite militias in Iraq, the official said. Syrian officials have also cooperated, though there is debate about whether it has the blessing of the senior leaders in Syria.
The intelligence official spoke on condition of anonymity under rules set by his agency, and discussed Iran’s role in response to questions from a reporter.
The interview occurred at a time of intense debate over whether the United States should enlist Iran’s help in stabilizing Iraq. The Iraq Study Group, directed by James A. Baker III, a former Republican secretary of state, and Lee H. Hamilton, a former Democratic lawmaker, is expected to call for direct talks with Tehran.
And why not? After all, Chamberlain went to Munich.
direct talks with Tehran ? You idiots thats like talking with Hitler all over again! They'll lie to you and smile and youll have some turkish tea and sing koumbayaa and when you leave they will laugh behind your backs.
why must we be doomed to repeat history...
now I wait for the next churchill God will send --we will need him soon ...
" And why not? After all, Chamberlain went to Munich "
and he came back with " Peace in our time "
How far we've come and how little we have learned.
if there are chamberlins in our times so there will be the next Churchill. Are we will to pay the price?
http://www.blenheimpalace.com/winstonchurchill/poster4.htm
willing to pay the price?
because Freedom is NOT free !
Shi'ites same as Hizbollah. Shi'ites fight (and kill) Sunnis and Sunnis kill Shi'ites. Sunnis and Shi'ites are both enemies of non-believers (in Islam) and kill them whenever there is an opportunity.
Give them no opportunity by removing them from our midst and dealing with those not in our midst as they deserve to be dealt with.
How many Americans wanted to talk things over with the Japanese after Pearl Harbor instead of fighting them until they no longer were a danger?
Now, there are Americans who feel the pain of the Moslems. Those Americans are a pain. these people of "reason" and "good will" want to bring our enemies in to discuss how we can deal with our enemies.
What was that I said?
Yes, I know, and I hope that you know, but how many are out there to whom it makes perfect sense. this includes those stumbling along the corridors of power. They are our leaders. Do you know where they will lead us?
It ain't to paradise, I can clue you in.
it not surprising that Hezbollah would be involved in making a mess in Iraq but asking Iranians and their sponsors to help stabilize the country would be vital in the Fox loose in the henhouse of the chickens legs tied to the roots another were sitting ducks. I'm A nut job the Iranian leader see sees himself as the head of a new Islamic empire and they will get even worse when Iran develops nukes. They have a IR BM they can almost reach the United States and personally think its first target be Tel Aviv and a second target will be DC.our only hope I feel it is the United States stations LA class boomer off the Middle East and and its Iran before its rockets land.
We Infidels need to fight Hizbullah in Iraq so that we needn't fight them in Lebanon.
Please, Hizbullah, Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Syrian Alawite Baathists, PIJ, go to Iraq and join Moqtada al Sadr.
Please, Ikhwan al Syria & al Misr, Saudi Imams, Jordanians/Palestinians, et al, go to Iraq and join the Sunnis.
Replace US troops there. Just make sure al Jazeera televises your war live, so that we can enjoy.
Ma'ahshallah.
In Zarqawi's last letter -- a fact never mentioned in the American press and certainly not by the American government (it would only confuse people, only start giving them ideas) -- he denounced Hezbollah. He denounced it because it was Shi'a, and therefore run by and for the interests of Rafidite dogs, Infidels. This is a sentiment not to be deplored. Mubarak has not been quite so outspoken, but he has denounced the Shi'a as hopelessly "untrustworthy." And in Egypt Shi'a are not officiallly recognized as Muslims at all.
And the Saudis, too, would like to see those Hezbollah volunteers march off to Iraq and get killed. No doubt well-off Saudis are chagrinned to see their would-be xanadus in Lebanon, that potential paradise for Saudis wishing to escape their native heat and stick-wielding mutawwa in an Arabic-speaking temperate climate [and not being so rich and powerful as to be able to live comfortably around Marbella, or St.-Juan-les-Pins, or be satisfied with a Stately Home in England or an apartment on the Avenue Foch, and not liking even a hint of Infidel suspicion or monitoring of how Saudis behave, of how they treat, for example, their domestic servants]. These hideous Shi'a of Hezbollah threaten or dominate Lebanon, and spoil the Hariri-Saudi plans for that country. Why, for the Saudis, at this point, even the complete Infidels -- the Maronites and Druse -- are no threat, and therefore to be favored (just look at Said Hariri's behavior) over the threatening Hezbollah rabble).
So there are many Sunni Arabs in Lebanon, and outside Lebanon, who would like to see the men of Hezbollah in Lebanon weakened. And this is particularly true given the close ties of that Hezbollah with both Syria and Iran. And if Ira itself is hopeless, those Sunnis must wonder about what to do about the Alawite regime (at least at the very top) in Syria which not only curries favor with Iran by serving as a conduit for Iranian weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon, but actively supports and uses Hezbollah to further its own, specificially Syrian plans to keep or rather renew its grip on Lebanon (seen as a cash cow for impoverished Syria, and of course as part of Greater Syria which should, by right, be ruled from Damascus anyway).
None of this is good for the Sunni Arabs. All of them would welcome ways to weaken Hezbollah in Iraq -- and if its members march off to be killed by the brave Sunni warriors, the true Muslims of Anbar Province and parts of Baghdad, convinced by the way that they will win in Iraq. And the Shi'a are similarly convinced that they will be victorious -- a guarantee of a long war, with all kinds of bad consequences for the Camp of Islam (as it should be called and recognized) and none for the Camp, or what should be recognized as the Camp, of the Infidels.
You can talk all you like to Iran. All they will do is laugh at a US that grovels constantly at its feet. Makes one think that it is Iran that's the world's only superpower with the US reduced to the role of butt kissing flunky. What an embarrassment. A-Nut must be right that the US is near destruction-suicide will do that for you.