In a short comment posted Friday, Prof. Juan Cole of the Univ. of Michigan suggests (without offering any evidence) that the late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was hoping to provoke war between the U.S. and Iran, perhaps by feeding disinformation to the U.S. "by a Zarqawi agent."[1] -- Cole notes ironically that this goal is the same one being pursued by "American hawks tied to the Israeli Likud Party, such as Michael Ledeen and Michael Rubin." -- He concludes: "So, it doesn't matter whether you listen to Ledeen and Rubin on attacking Iran or to Zarqawi on the same subject. Either way, such a move spells disaster for the United States and should be opposed by genuine patriots who care about this country -- until and unless Iran actually does something to the U.S. that calls for a military response." ...
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ZARQAWI SOUGHT U.S.-IRAN WAR
By Juan Cole
Informed Comment
June 16, 2006
http://www.juancole.com/2006/06/zarqawi-sought-us-iran-war-abu-musab.html
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was hoping to provoke a US-Iran war as a way of bogging the Americans down further and defeating them in Iraq.
Remember all those times Bush, Rice, and Rumsfeld came out and said they suspected that Shiite Iran was somehow aiding the Sunni Arab insurgency? You remember how baffled I was at this bizarre allegation? You wonder whether they were being fed disinformation by a Zarqawi agent, and falling for it.
After they fell for the biggest whoppers of the 21st century, as retailed by Ahmad Chalabi, have Bush administration officials been gullibly swallowing an al-Qaeda black psy-ops operation intended to mire U.S. troops in the Dasht-i Kavir? For people who think of themselves as tough as nails hard-headed realists, the Bushies seem awfully easy to fool.
American hawks tied to the Israeli Likud Party, such as Michael Ledeen and Michael Rubin, who are also trying to get up an American war on Iran, turn out to have the same goal as Zarqawi!
It is the case that if you did want to see the U.S. completely defeated and humiliated, you could not do better than have Washington open a second conventional front in Iran. Iran is much bigger than Iraq, more rugged in terrain, and 3 times more populous, and its population is politically savvy, literate, and highly mobilized.
So, it doesn't matter whether you listen to Ledeen and Rubin on attacking Iran or to Zarqawi on the same subject. Either way, such a move spells disaster for the United States and should be opposed by genuine patriots who care about this country -- until and unless Iran actually does something to the U.S. that calls for a military response.
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