What the Heck was I Thinking!?

Michelle Malkin’s blog points to two posts by Bill Roggio about the recent kidnap and killing of US troops in Karbala.

In his second post, Mr. Roggio writes:

Pentagon investigating Iran’s Qods Force role in Karbala attack (The Fourth Rail)

The United States had planned to detail Iran’s involvement in supporting the Shia death squads, as well as the Sunni insurgency, al-Qaeda in Iraq and Ansar al-Sunnah during a press briefing with Major General Bill Caldwell on Wednesday at 7:00 am Eastern. The briefing was purported to have detailed “specifics including shipping documents, serial numbers, maps and other evidence which officials say would irrefutably link Iran to weapons shipments to Iraq.”

The Bush administration has decided to put the briefing “on hold for several reasons, including concerns over the reaction from Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – as well as inevitable follow-up questions that would be raised over what the U.S. should do about it,” according to FOX News.

Bearing that in mind, we read in Yahoo news that the parade of presidential candidates, anxious to support the troops, are challenging the Administration to be careful not to drift into war with Iran and to be clear about the intelligence basis on which any such decisions would be made.

Obama, a candidate for president in 2008, warned during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing that senators of both parties will demand “clarity and transparency in terms of U.S. policy so that we don’t repeat some of the mistakes that have been made in the past,” a reference to the faulty intelligence underlying the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

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Senators including Hagel, George Voinovich (news, bio, voting record), R-Ohio, and Joseph R. Biden Jr., D-Del., sounded frustrated with the administration’s decision not to engage Iran and fellow outcast Syria in efforts to reduce sectarian violence in Iraq.

The Senators want the Administration to talk with Syria and Iran. It doesn’t matter how many people the Iranian IEDs have killed or crippled. It doesn’t matter how much money they’ve pumped into Iraq to destabilize or sway the government. It doesn’t matter if they and their proxies have already sworn to kill Americans - and succeeded.

Let’s talk.

There’s no spectacle like conducting a war and a 2-year presidential campaign at the same time.