“I really don’t understand how Sabrina can come and say there’s progress,” he said, “but what is worse is the outright lies presented to the American people that Iran is responsible for what is going on.”
Gravel said Washington is trying to develop a concept of a proxy war being waged between Iran and Iraq.
“There is no evidence, none at all,” he said, “And if you go in deeper into the American military, you have army officers, captains, majors, colonels, who will tell you there is no evidence at all about anything coming over the Iranian border into Iraq. But then you get Petraeus and other generals making these statements.”
Gravel said how can they make statements that the mortars used on the heavily fortified Green Zone, for example, are coming from Iran. “These are outright lies,” he said.
Gravel said he can see the same policy being employed now that was used by the US to widen the war in South East Asia some 40 years ago.
“This what happened in Vietnam. We went in and attacked Cambodia and Laos. They had nothing to do with what was going on in Vietnam. All it did was expand a murderous part of the South East Asian War.”
Gravel said Iran is a natural ally of the United States, “Iran has been helping us stabilize the situation in Iraq until we can come to our senses and get out. Our guest here Sabrina says she sees progress, but even Petraeus admitted he sees no light at the end of the tunnel.”
Schaeffer took the floor to clarify what she says are some of the successes.
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