The Bush admin funds 'terrorists and radicals'

[Juche]

""some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along ... We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.""""

In an interview on CNN International's Your World Today, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh explains that the current violence in Lebanon is the result of an attempt by the Lebanese government to crack down on a militant Sunni group, Fatah al-Islam, that it formerly supported.

Last March, Hersh reported that American policy in the Middle East had shifted to opposing Iran, Syria, and their Shia allies at any cost, even if it meant backing hardline Sunni jihadists.

A key element of this policy shift was an agreement among Vice President Dick Cheney, Deputy National Security Advisor Elliot Abrams, and Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi national security adviser, whereby the Saudis would covertly fund the Sunni Fatah al-Islam in Lebanon as a counterweight to the Shia Hezbollah.

Hersh points out that the current situation is much like that during the conflict in Afghanistan in the 1980's – which gave rise to al Qaeda – with the same people involved in both the US and Saudi Arabia and the "same pattern" of the US using jihadists that the Saudis assure us they can control.

When asked why the administration would be acting in a way that appears to run counter to US interests, Hersh says that, since the Israelis lost to them last summer, "the fear of Hezbollah in Washington, particularly in the White House, is acute."

As a result, Hersh implies, the Bush administration is no longer acting rationally in its policy. "We're in the business of supporting the Sunnis anywhere we can against the Shia. ... "We're in the business of creating ... sectarian violence." And he describes the scheme of funding Fatah al-Islam as "a covert program we joined in with the Saudis as part of a bigger, broader program of doing everything we could to stop the spread of the Shia world, and it just simply -- it bit us in the rear."

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Hersh_Bush_arranged_support_for_militants_0522.html

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.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/03/05/070305fa_fact_hersh

I think I've reached a point where Bush's idiocy doesn't bother me anymore. Watching him say unbelievably stupid things doesn't really affect me anymore as I don't expect better. Someone as oblivious as Bush whose administration funds terrorist linked groups complaining about 'appeasement' is something that doesn't shock me. What bothers me is the tens of millions of uninformed dittoheads who will parrot his statements before the day is over and who vote. That scares me.

FTR: Obama's grandfather joined the army in ww2 to fight against the Nazis. Bush's grandfather helped fund the nazis. Bush's grandfather also played a part in an effort to have the US government overthrown in the 'Business plot' of 1933.

Bush also wants to negotiate with countries like Iran, Libya and Saudi Arabia. I don't mind it, but it does show how goddamn stupid he is and how oblivious he is.

[whosinpower]

1. It's all part of the game

to perpetuate war. Peace would mean bankruptcy to the war profiteers....