Iranians in Iraq: What About the Americans?

It becomes fun to read news reports from the mainstream media to see the ways in which they miss what is most obvious. It takes a massive level of indoctrination and in other cases, arrogance, to figure that another nation is "interfering" in a country that our nation has illegally occupied. But don't put it past Robert Spencer to get that. It's not his fault that he believes every word that comes from our government - except of course when it has to do with building good relations between the West and the Muslim world, then of course aspects of our government are in "meltdown," as he described the State Department initiative to stop the use of certain terms in order not to give legitimacy to the jihadis of the world.

Just take the example below, from the New York Times, whom Spencer quotes and believes without question. I mean, you could imagine his reaction if the Times reported that the Iranians were actually training the Iraqis in break dancing. It wouldn't matter if it was a U.S. official cited as the source, Spencer just wouldn't believe it. President Bush could literally hold an evening press conference telling the entire world there is no threat from Iran - they're justing teaching the Iraqis how to dance like they do in You Got Served. Spencer would be beside himself in anger, proclaiming to the world that Bush and the rest of our government was in "meltdown" and that our nation was ignoring the threat of Islamic jihadists/radicals/extremists. I think there is indoctrination at very deep levels, but with people like Spencer, David Horowitz, Daniel Pipes, and others like them it doesn't matter who the source is unless the information conforms to their world view, which is that Muslims are pests and need to be ground into oblivion.

There has been debate among experts about the extent to which Iran is responsible for instability in Iraq. But President Bush and other American officials, in public castigations of Iran, have said that Iran has been consistently meddlesome in Iraq and that the Iranians have long sought to arm and train Iraqi militias, which the American military has called “special groups.”

Oh, but you know, those 150,000 American troops - they've been nothing but angels. I guess "experts" have already assessed the extent to which America "is responsible for instability in Iraq," since you know, we invaded them illegally and occupy them illegally currently. But of course, we can't discuss that, because we might be called lunatics and shunned aside as anti-American haters and Ikhwan collaborators.