Stating The Obvious

Reading this, it sounds like Odierno has absolutely no idea what he is talking about...

Iran, a shiite theocracy, is backing Iraqi shiite militias, OK. One of which, the Mahdi Army, recently extended its cease fire, the other, the Badr Corp, is pretty much an extension of the official Iraqi government being allied to SCIRI of which Al Maliki, the Prime Minister, is its representative.

Odierno says that shiites are responsible for most of the bombing going on in Baghdad but if you read the news reports the bombs tend to go off in Shiite market places or are directly aimed at shiite government officials, so my guess would be that it is probably Sunnis doing the bombing.

Where does this leave Al Qaeda? Al Qaeda are Sunni fundamentalists and as far as they are concerned shiites are heretics, now, some of the weapons leaking across the Iranian border may well end up in Sunni hands, probably exchanged for the good old yankee dollar, but Iran would never train a Sunni and vice versa.

Odierno insists on calling shiite militias insurgents, this is demonstrably false, the insurgency is fueled and lead by Sunnis not shiites, so let's get the message straight Lt. Gen. Odierno, the shiites are in power and therefore cannot, by definition, be insurgent.

He does let the cat out of the bag a little with this statement beginning with the false inference that iran is supporting insurgents:

''We have no doubt they are still supporting insurgents,'' said Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno, the former No. 2 military commander in Iraq, at a Pentagon press conference. Asked if that was the greatest threat to stability in Iraq, he said, ''If you ask me what I worry about most, I do worry about that as a long-term threat. And I think we have to, you know, constantly watch it.''

Iran is not supporting insurgents... it is arming and training shiite militias for the inevitable civil war with the disenfranchised Sunnis and that is what Odierno is worried about 'long term'.

So quit the fricking double-speak and tell the truth.