Bush insists Iran is arming Iraq

‘I’m going to do something about it,’ president says

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MSNBC staff and news service reports
Updated: 1:49 p.m. ET Feb. 14, 2007

WASHINGTON - President Bush said Wednesday he’s convinced that the Iranian government is supplying deadly weapons to fighters in Iraq, even if he can’t prove the orders came from the highest levels in Tehran.

More important, Bush said in his first news conference of the year, is protecting U.S. troops against the lethal new threat. “I’m going to do something about it,” Bush said.

And the president warned of “disastrous consequences” that would follow in the event of a U.S. military withdrawal.

“I concluded that to step back from Baghdad would have disastrous consequences in America,” Bush told reporters. And the reason why I say ‘disastrous consequences’ is, the Iraqi government could collapse and chaos could spread.”

U.S. officials have said that Iran helped on attacks on troops in Iraq, an assertion denied by Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

In comments Tuesday, Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also appeared to question the assertions about Iran's role in Iraq. “That does not translate that the Iranian government per se, for sure, is directly involved in doing this,” Pace said.

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