Obama Begins Making the Case for War in Iran

In case you haven't been paying attention, Obama says the war in Iraq is winding down. He will soon take credit for the victory. However, the mainstream media has failed to make rising casualty rates in Afghanistan and Iraq much of a headline story.

Three U.S. soldiers were killed this week in a rocket attack at a U.S. base near the Iranian border, the military said Thursday, bringing June’s death toll to 15 and marking the bloodiest month for U.S. troops in Iraq in two years.

Guess who is getting the blame as we are possibly seeing Obama justify his next war expansion.

U.S. military commanders have said in recent months that they feared such an increase in violence would accompany the planned withdrawal of most American troops by the end of the year. Military officials in Baghdad and at the Pentagon blamed the mounting death toll on the growing sophistication of weapons that insurgents and Iranian-backed militia groups are using, including powerful rockets, armor-piercing grenades and jam-resistant roadside bombs suspected of coming from Iran.

Perhaps, we are already at war with Iran at the Iraq border...

In an interview with Bloomberg News, outgoing Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates expressed similar frustration with Iran’s ties to the Shiite militias operating in Iraq. Iran is “facilitating weapons, they’re facilitating training, there’s new technology that they are providing,” Gates said. “They’re stepping this up, and it’s a concern.”

It sure sounds like they are preparing for conflict.