NCRI – General Ray Odierno, who is nominated to be the next Army chief, stressed the Iranian regime’s efforts for arming the militia in Iraq and said that in light of the stepped-up Iranian efforts for pressuring the U.S. to abandon Iraq, the U.S. should provide whatever assistance that Iraq thinks it needs beyond 2011,the Associate Press reported on July 21.
Odierno said: “It is clear that Iran is attempting to influence this decision with the actions they’ve taken, specifically over the last several months, in continuing to support, fund, train, equip surrogates in southern Iraq and central Iraq, specifically going after the remnants of our U.S. presence inside of Iraq,” AP reported.