Bush Arming Al Qaeda To Thwart Iran? Can This Be Real?

[babsbunny]

http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1048&Itemid=135

Brothers in Arms Again: Bush Faction Arming Al Qaeda to Thwart Iran
Written by Chris Floyd
Monday, 26 February 2007
Here's the upshot of Sy Hersh's latest piece in the New Yorker: George W. Bush is working with, paying, arming and training -- directly and by proxy -- violent terrorist groups in league with Osama bin Laden.

Just as the Bush Faction has replicated every mistake, misdeed and miscalculation of the Vietnam quagmire in Iraq, so too the "grand strategy" of the "War on Terror " replicates the worst strategic mistake of the last quarter of the 20th century: arming and training violent, obscurantist Islamic militias -- in effect, creating (with Saudi and Pakistani partners) the global jihad movement as an effective force -- in the vain and frankly stupid hope that these groups could be manipulated into serving American policy and then safely set aside where their usefulness was through.

[Fresh_Start]

1. why not, daddy financed bin laden to thwart USSR

sponsoring terrorism runs in his family

[blm]

6. Anyone think Poppy Bush woke up one day in 1993 and decided to STOP dealing arms

and drugs and funding terrorism?

I don't. He just took it more underground and kept his DC people in place to assure no more Democratic investigations would expose them the way they were so close to being fully exposed on IranContra, Iraqgate and BCCI.

[marmar]

2. If just about any other administration was in the White House, I'd say "no, this can't be real"...

But we're deep into the rabbit hole.

[Kagemusha]

3. Even if it's not Al Qaeda per se, it's close enough to look scary.

I mean, creating a bunch of Osama Mini-Me's isn't exactly reassuring me either.

[ripple]

4. Here's a link to the New Yorker article:

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070305fa_fact_hersh

"In the past few months, as the situation in Iraq has deteriorated, the Bush Administration, in both its public diplomacy and its covert operations, has significantly shifted its Middle East strategy. The “redirection,” as some inside the White House have called the new strategy, has brought the United States closer to an open confrontation with Iran and, in parts of the region, propelled it into a widening sectarian conflict between Shiite and Sunni Muslims.

To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda...."

[hippiechick]

5. Sure, why not ?

Blivet can't defeat Iran on his own ... so let's put Al Q back on active payroll and let them do some early Recon and Undercover Ops ...

:spank: Perpetual War for Perpetual Profit, n'cest pas?

[sam sarrha]

7. with $8 billion lost in one day, another 5 and another 2.. they say syria, Iran and Lebanon

'Awash in $100 dollar bills..

[LSparkle]

8. We're paying to be SCAREDand PROPAGANDIZED to

A frightened populace is easily manipulated, cowed, made subservient ... This cabal is scared shitless of PEACE.