Saudis funding Insurgents in Iraq....Wait, Bush loves the Saudis,! Well, I am shocked!

[babsbunny]

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/16822106.htm?source=rss&channel=twincities_news

Saudis funding insurgents in Iraq
U.S. fears proxy war with Iranian-backed Shiites could widen
BY ERIC ROSENBERG
Hearst Newspapers
WASHINGTON — During his inaugural appearance before Congress last week, the new U.S. intelligence czar made a rare public reference to one of Washington's secret dreads.

Mike McConnell, the new director of national intelligence, said there are funds coming from Saudi Arabia, an ostensible U.S. ally, to help Sunni insurgents in Iraq, while Iran is supporting the Shiite militias there.

McConnell's testimony undergirds U.S. concerns that the Iraq civil war could turn into a direct Saudi-Iranian confrontation, with American military forces caught between warring combatants for Islam's two dominant strains.

[amandabeech]

1. It was rumored that the Saudis would support Sunni Arabs in Iraq

against violence from the Shia.

If we leave, Sunni Arab money and men may end up fighting a proxy war against Shia and Iran throughout non-Kurdish Iraq.

The Saudis warned us about this possibility way back before the first Iraq war. They told Bush I in no uncertain terms that if he took out Saddam, the entire region might end up in a nasty war. Poppy took their advice and that of his own advisors who said similar things. That's why Poppy didn't go all the way to Baghdad and tried to tell junior not to do it either. I don't like Poppy, but he was right in the Iraq case.