McClatchy: Is an Iranian general pulling the strings in Iraq?

[maddezmom]

BAGHDAD — One of the most powerful men in Iraq isn't an Iraqi government official, a militia leader, a senior cleric or a top U.S. military commander or diplomat,

He's an Iranian general, and at times he's more influential than all of them.

Brig. Gen. Qassem Suleimani commands the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force, an elite paramilitary and espionage organization whose mission is to expand Iran's influence in the Middle East .

As Tehran's point man on Iraq , he funnels military and financial support to various Iraqi factions, frustrating U.S. attempts to build a pro-Western democracy on the rubble of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20080428/wl_mcclatchy/2923498_1

[tsdraegeth]

1. .

The telling phrase here is "U.S. attempts to build a...democracy."

And Saddam's fleets of balsa planes were poised to begin bombing Paris Hilton's doghouse.

[Alcibiades]

2. McClatchy is the propaganda arm of the empire

I read the Bee when I was out in California, and now they own the N&O here in the Triangle.

"U.S. attempts to build a pro-Western democracy on the rubble of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship"

That's an editorial comment, not reporting.

[jody]

3. This is an un-sourced, blatant piece of propaganda that could fuel Cheney's war with Iran. n/t