Iran ’may have duped US into war’
US officials suspect Iran duped the US into invading Iraq by slipping bogus intelligence to Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress (INC), The Guardian newspaper reported today. "Some intelligence officials now believe that Iran used the hawks in the Pentagon and the White House to get rid of a hostile neighbour and pave the way for a Shia-ruled Iraq," it said in a front-page dispatch from Washington. Quoting a US intelligence official, whom it did not name, The Guardian said Chalabi’s intelligence chief Ara Kariim Habibi had been a paid by Iranian agent for several years, "passing intelligence in both directions".
Regardless of whether this is true or not, Iran really will be the winner if the Shia’s get a mullah in charge of Iraq. Why not take out Iran now as well? would we be too stretched? We need to get Sadr. Even if that means a hardcore invasion of Najaf. Why did the US forget the lesson of "never trust a holy man?" they should have shot Sadr last year when they had the chance along with any other holy men that have pretentions to political power/warlordism.
"It’s pretty clear that Iranians had us for breakfast, lunch and dinner," it quoted an intelligence source in Washington as saying. "Iranian intelligence has been manipulating the US for several years through Chalabi." |