General David Petraeus seems to be doing Vice President Cheney's job for him. At the very least, he's taken over the job of manufacturing and inflating causes for war against Iran.
Petraeus said he had no doubts about the Qods force.
"There should be no question about the malign, lethal involvement and activities of the Qods force in this country," he said.
Once he gets wound up, he can't stop.
"They are responsible for providing the weapons, the training, the funding and in some cases the direction for operations that have indeed killed U.S. soldiers," Petraeus told a small group of reporters when asked if the Iranian government was responsible for killing U.S. troops.
"There is no question about the connection between Iran and these components, (the) attacks that have killed our soldiers."
Petraeus did not say how he knew Iran's ambassador to Baghdad, Hassan Kazemi-Qomi, was a member of the Qods force.
"The ambassador is a Qods force member," said Petraeus, before appearing to suggest that Kazemi-Qomi was not under the U.S. military spotlight because he was a diplomat.
"Now he has diplomatic immunity and therefore he is obviously not subject (to scrutiny). He is acting as a diplomat."
And it goes on. He adds fuel to the fire.
"They are implicated in the assassination of some governors in the southern provinces," said Petraeus.
Asked to be more specific, he said one case "was clearly an explosively formed projectile."
"They only come from Iran and they are only used by militias so it's a sort of a signature trademark of militia extremists. The other case the suspicion is the same, we just don't have the same quality of forensics."
But the fire kind of fizzles out.
Asked if there was intelligence directly linking Iran to the two bomb attacks, he said: "I would not comment on this."
