President Barack Obama just released five top Iranian war criminals who are responsible for the murder of hundreds of American troops. (Unsurprisingly, the Associated Press called the five ‘diplomats.’) To complete the deal with Iran, Obama will likely soon release hundreds of more war criminals even though they will surely go back to murdering our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan:
First, of the 4,322 Americans killed in combat in Iraq since 2003, 10 percent of them (i.e., more than 400) have been murdered by a single type of weapon alone, a weapon that is supplied by Iran for the singular purpose of murdering Americans. As Steve Schippert explains at NRO’s military blog, the Tank, the weapon is “the EFP (Explosively Formed Penetrator), designed by Iran’s IRGC specifically to penetrate the armor of the M1 Abrams main battle tank and, consequently, everything else deployed in the field.” Understand: This does not mean Iran has killed only 400 Americans in Iraq. The number killed and wounded at the mullahs’ direction is far higher than that — likely multiples of that — when factoring in the IRGC’s other tactics, such as the mustering of Hezbollah-style Shiite terror cells.
Second, President Bush and our armed forces steadfastly refused demands by Iran and Iraq’s Maliki government for the release of the Irbil Five because Iran was continuing to coordinate terrorist operations against American forces in Iraq (and to aid Taliban operations against American forces in Afghanistan). Freeing the Quds operatives obviously would return the most effective, dedicated terrorist trainers to their grisly business.
Third, Obama’s decision to release the five terror-masters comes while the Iranian regime (a) is still conducting operations against Americans in Iraq, even as we are in the process of withdrawing, and (b) is clearly working to replicate its Lebanon model in Iraq: establishing a Shiite terror network, loyal to Iran, as added pressure on the pliant Maliki to understand who is boss once the Americans leave. As the New York Times reports, Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, put it this way less than two weeks ago … READ THE REST.
“Make no mistake” (another meaningless phrase Obama often uses), Iran’s murdering mullahs partially honored this deal with Obama; they released one live American journalist. About the same time, Iranian-backed Quds forces released two dead Brits. Yet somehow the terrorists failed to mention the ‘dead’ part to Obama (or he knew and didn’t care) as the two had been in an Iraqi morgue since 2007.
Obama is under pressure to complete his deal with the devil: Britain wants the remaining three likely dead hostages back and Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki wants “reconciliation” with the Iranian-backed Quds forces.
If Obama can cut it, the deal will be a win-win-win-win. Iran will remain the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism, more of their proxies will be free to commit war crimes against America, Obama will have a cleaner plate and can concentrate on overseas contingency operations, and the Britainstan government will have all five hostages to thaw out and bury. (Iraq just gets screwed in the deal.)
This has been a ‘Swift and certain justice’ alert. Expect many more similar alerts between now and January 20, 2013.