AIDING OUR ENEMIES

Another Result of Bush's Blunder

Another glaring example of Bush's total ineptness and one that I have personally raised since before our needless invasion of Iraq in March 2003, is what was surely due to happen once Saddam Hussein was no longer in power and the Shia majority filled that vacuum.

Of course, everyone I know had no clue what a Shia and/or Sunni was and therefore 95% of the U.S. population was, and still is, totally clueless of what the ramifications would be to the U.S. once Hussein was out of power.

Iran, a former bitter, and long-fought enemy of Saddam Hussein, who is a Sunni, is 90% Shia and now the government we installed in Iraq has admitted they have signed a pact with Iran to accept 'military training' and 'other cooperations'.

Iraq is anywhere from 60-70% Shia and those Iraqi Shia have long alliances with Iranian Shia going back to before the Ayatollah Khomeini. When it was suggested to Iraq's Defense Minister Saadoun al-Dulaimi that the new military pact could possibly anger Washington, his reply was, "Nobody can dictate to Iraq its relations with other countries."

Today we get a clue of what is going to happen in the vacuum created by Saddam Hussein being out of power. Saddam Hussein only had control of 1/3 of his country when he was overthrown-the U.S. controlled the entire 'southern no-fly zone' and the British controlled the entire 'northern no-fly zone', leaving Saddam Hussein powerless and certainly no threat to us. Today proves yet another blunder by Bush and one that will make Iraq more of a danger and more of a threat to the United States than before we invaded in March 2003. And today, I get to tell a lot of fools-I told you so.