Ganley: Mullahs are laughing behind closed doors

IRAQ and Iran could only be “tamed” through a second world war-type effort by the western powers involving drafts, rationing and sacrifice, Libertas founder Declan Ganley suggested in a little-seen paper.

The anti-Lisbon campaigner, whose company, Rivada Networks, has lucrative contracts with the US military, warned of the consequences of an American pullout from Iraq, saying it would hand a “truly historic” victory to the Islamic radicals.

“This is not Vietnam, it’s much more serious,” Mr Ganley wrote in the 2006 paper. “Regardless of the historic reasons, the fact remains that Iraq is the main battleground of Islamic radicalism against the west. The Islamists themselves have said so plenty of times. They are shortly to be handed a victory quite unlike any seen for Islamist forces for centuries.”