--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "peterklutz" <peterklutz@> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > There's simply no way the Cheney, sorry Bush, administration would > > > want to see Al-Qaeda defeated - or the civil war in former Iraq > > ended. > > > > > I just heard on the news last night that BushCo is funding Sunni > > groups with ties to Al-Qaeda supposedly to counter the influence of > > Shia dominated Iran. > > FWIW, according to former deputy secretary of defense > (in the Reagan administration) Lawrence Korb on MSNBC's > "Countdown" last night, the money is actually going to > governments that the administration believes will be > helpful against Iran, but the administration has no > control over where the money ends up. > > They may have an idea of where some of the money is > going, in other words, but they aren't just handing > it over directly to these groups with ties to al Qaeda. > > Minor nuance...
Meant to add, if Korb is correct, the point is that this isn't another Iran-contra-type scheme, which is what it looks like when one says the administration is funding groups linked to al Qaeda (although that may be an unintended side effect).
