Obama Administration Realizing That We Are At War With Iran

White House Admits War With Iran -- Washington Times editorial

Obama officials decry Tehran’s culpability for U.S. troop deaths.

The United States is engaged in a deadly but seldom mentioned proxy war with Iran. In a rare act of candor, two senior Obama administration defense officials have addressed the open secret of Iran's active support for insurgent groups fighting U.S. troops overseas.

Earlier this week, during a visit to Iraq, newly confirmed Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta strongly denounced Iranian support for increasingly violent Shiite militia groups in that country. "We are very concerned about Iran and the weapons they are providing to extremists here in Iraq," he said. "We're seeing more of those weapons going in from Iran, and they've really hurt us." Mr. Panetta pledged that America would take action against Iran's provocations. "We cannot sit back and simply allow this to continue to happen," he said. "This is not something we're going to walk away from. It's something we're going to take on head-on."

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My Comment: The sentence that caught my eye was the following ....

.... Iran has been directly or indirectly responsible for more U.S. combat deaths than any other country since the end of the Vietnam War.

A sobering statement.