The Time of the Assassins: Bushists Stirring Iraq, Iran Into a Bloody Stew
This weekend, as an assassination campaign continued to kill off the leaders of Iran’s closest ally in Iraq, American officials ratcheted up their casus belli accusations against Tehran, now claiming that forces of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) — which the Bush Administration is preparing to designate as a “global terrorist group” — are actually on Iraqi soil, directly helping insurgents to kill American troops. The conjunction of these events — the assassinations and the accusations — reveals both the deadly murk surrounding the occupation