Duped By Iran
Many people, myself included, believed that the intelligence indicating that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and ties to al-Qaeda was simply made up, that there was no actual evidence and Bush lied us into war for whatever reason. It seems that we were wrong. Our Administration wasn’t lying, they were duped by Iran, according to the Guardian.
This is old news, but important news, because the US media hasn’t quite picked it up yet. In any case, for those of you unwilling to RTFA, a lot of the intelligence about Iraq that the Administration was acting upon came from the Iraqi National Congress, a group of expatriate Iraqis based in the UK.
It is increasingly becoming clear that the INC got the intelligence from none other than Iranian intelligence in a misinformation plot that managed to bring the United States at war with Iraq to satisfy Iranian foreign policy goals. Not only would Saddam Hussein, Iran’s old enemy, be out of power, but Iraq would be in a perfect situation for Shi’ite clerics to take over Iraq and establish a theocratic Shi’ite state. Being a theocratic Shi’ite state itself, Iran would undoubtedly view this as a positive outcome. In the meantime, American forces are stuck in Iraq, leading to an increasing discrediting of the United States in the Middle East.
Say what you will about Clinton, but he was never the dupe of foreign spies.
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