Respectfully request some research assistance

[BOSSHOG]

I am drawing a blank right now, but I recently recall a story about bush funding terrorists in Iraq? Iran? Yes? No? If anyone can steer this old fart to some information it would be greatly appreciated.

I don't feel too bad because the amount of crap on bush is overwhelming and so incredibly voluminous as to overload a borderline senior citizen like myself.

[Capn Sunshine]

1. see the front page boss

I think Idiots # 3

[meegbear]

5. You are correct oh great one!

I remembered seeing it before, but couldn't remember where.

[BOSSHOG]

6. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, YOU GUYS ARE GREAT

[patrice]

2. The Redirection

http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/070305fa_fact_hersh

Bush and Prince Bandar are teaming up to finance Sunni al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood to destroy Shia Hezbollah in Lebannon and thus weaken shia in Iran, amongst several other things . . .

[meegbear]

3. Bush is Funding al-Qaeda, Making Him an Unlawful Combatant

http://baltimorechronicle.com/2007/022707Lindorff.shtml

[patrice]

4. This is important because:

American troops in Iraq are in danger of being used as the new bait in a new “Bait and Switch” by Sunnis in the MidEast.

In last-week’s testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Joint Chief of Staff General Pace indicated that if he followed DoD readiness standards, one third of the forces headed to Iraq would not be deployed. Therefore, it is possible that, in addition to long established shortages, soon, one third of the total military force in Iraq will not be fully manned, fully trained or fully equipped. General Pace did not want Congress to do anything about this weakness in force readiness. Why?

The intent of redirected strategy in the Mideast, documented by Seymour Hersh March 5 in The New Yorker, is to weaken Shia in Iran by strengthening Sunnis in the region. Given that the Iraqi government is predominantly Shia and the Sunni militias are responsible for 80% of American fatalities, strengthening Sunnis further destabilizes a situation in which the blood of American soldiers is being sacrificed for stability.

As Iraqi Sunni militias get stronger with more regional support, they have to decide whether to kill more Americans or more Shia. Shortages in force readiness in this situation create the conditions favorable to a "Bait and Switch", in which American blood attracts Sunnis into what's going on, and then, as Hersh describes, through the use of special Sunni operative$$$$$$$$, their efforts are turned on the Shia instead.

P.$. More Free Market Mysticism at work.