Iranian Help In Basra

Shocker!

"IRANIAN forces were involved in the recent battle for Basra, General David
Petraeus, the US commander in Iraq, is expected to tell Congress this week.

Military and intelligence sources believe Iranians were operating at a
tactical command level with the Shi'ite militias fighting Iraqi security
forces; some were directing operations on the ground, they think.

Petraeus intends to use the evidence of Iranian involvement to argue against
any reductions in US forces.

Dr Daniel Goure, a defence analyst at the Lexington Institute in Virginia,
said: "There is no question that Petraeus will be tough on Iran. It is one
thing to withdraw troops when there is purely sectarian fighting but it is
another thing if it leaves the Iranians to move in."

Meanwhile Hugh Hewitt asks why Obama hasn't been pressed on Iran, he has
been allowed to skate through the primaries spewing empty platitudes.