Monday, March 05, 2007

Fustercluck

TomDispatch - Tomgram: De la Vega, The Whole Truth about Libby and the Leak
"Indeed, the same folks are now evidently running an updated version of Iran-Contra (without the CIA) out of the Vice President's office. At the same time, according to Hersh, Cheney, in his urge to roll back Iranian regional power as well as undermine Hezbollah, Moqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army militia in Iraq, and the Syrians, has set the Saudis loose to fund Sunni jihadis -- just as they did in Afghanistan at American behest in the 1980s. The result then was, among other things, al-Qaeda and the Taliban. So imagine: Cheney's office is now working hard to combine the worst of the Reagan-era Iran-Contra scandal with the worst of the Afghan disaster. I wonder what the results could possibly be?"

2 comments:

shrimplate said...

Profits.

shrimplate said...

And death and general mayhem, of course. But we're keeping our eyes on the botom line here.

Sheesh.