Who's zoomin' who??

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http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/09/13/terrorist_network_disconnect.php

Read the WHOLE article and see if your blood boils just a tad.

On Sept. 5, Bush offered a slightly different formulation of the same theme. “The Shia and Sunni extremists represent different faces of the same threat. They draw inspiration from different sources, but both seek to impose a dark vision of violent Islamic radicalism across the Middle East.”

These carefully crafted rhetorical devices (“a single movement,” “a worldwide network of radicals that use terror,” “different faces of the same threat") represent a breathtaking falsification of history.

The reality is exactly the opposite of Bush’s lie. Iran was pursing active opposition for years against al-Qaida and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, which provided it a safe haven while the United States was either on the wrong side or refused to take sides.

After the Taliban regime took power in September 1996, the extremist Sunni Taliban and Osama bin Laden, who immediately moved to Afghanistan to enjoy the Taliban’s hospitality, hated Iran because it was the region’s only Shiite regime. Iran regarded the Taliban regime as a direct threat to its security and accused it of providing sanctuary to terrorist organizations, including, of course, bin Laden’s al-Qaida. Iran immediately offered money, weapons and humanitarian aid to the only armed Afghan resistance to it, the largely-Tajik so-called “Northern Alliance.”