Does this remind you of Iran-Contra............ Anyone?

This reminds me of WW1 soldiers walking slowly towards German machine guns. It took the Powers That Be the whole war to learn that ducking, weaving and using cover would have been more effective.

The people in control don't learn from their mistakes easily, because they are so far removed from the consequences, and they don't think ahead beyond the current administration.

Perhaps America's trying to ensure that it will always have enemies.

Well, it worked so well the first time...

So...funding and supplying terrorist organizations has now become the new tactic in the War on Tehrur. Awesome. A bigger bunch of hypocrites cannot be found on this earth.

Here goes the double standard again..

US selling it's goods at a fair Price... OK
Middle East selling Oil at fair Price... NOT OK

Terrorizing American... NOT OK
Terrorizing Iran... OK

Continueing Middle east Disstablization... OK
Peaceful protests regarding Globalization.. NOT OK

I swear GW was dropped on his head.. or the crack/cocaine reverse wired the guy..

Seriously though.. how the hell does a coke head get elected twice?
You know... maybe he never quit... somebody should check that boy's diplomatic cases.

They did the same thing with Castro's revolution until they found out Che and Raul were communists.

Short, sweet, and to the point. Excellent article legionnaire.

Plus a gazillion...

I have this funny picture in my head about how Bush would react if he found out the Iranian regime was secretly funding militant groups in the US. Actually, it's not that funny...

I can't begin to comprehend the hypocrisy embedded in our foreign policy. It's nauseating to say the least.

Two words: Marion Barry (Sp?)

i don't understand this.

we back and fund a "war on terrorism" yet we back terrorists in Iran.

This makes PERFECT sense. <eyeroll>

You know what this reminds me of? The Foundation series of sci-fi novels by Isaac Asimov, where seemingly altruistic notions of supremacy led a well-intentioned group of people to develop rather immoral and eventually counterproductive methods of confronting enemies that royally bit them in the ass a few years down the line. However, no one in our current government seems capable of looking beyond their own narrow self-interests. "Fuck the well-being of this country in the long-term; what can I do to make myself look macho right now?"

The only consolation (and a very meager one, at that) is that, in no more than ten years' time, history will prove the absolute, irrevocable fallacy of just about everything this current government had undertaken.

What happened the last time the US Gov't funded radical extremists bent on a military goal? Oh yeah, WTC.....eventually.

The trick is to call them "freedom fighters" and to remember that "the ends justify the means". Top it all off with policies which makes it clear you don't really care how many people die, on either side, and it's like watching history come to life, again.

Ahh, the Crusades..
Wait, that is what you speak of, no?

it was my understanding that we've been doing this for a while. well, at least funding student and reistance groups looking to provide the moderate alternative to the Ayatollahs.

you'd think they'd know better than to fund any violent insurgent group, given the history of how that eventually ends up; in that reigon particularly.

They fund groups hostile to us we fund groups hostile to them it's called the way the world works were all pawns in a giant chess game. None of you can even be remotely surprised by any of this.