US intelligence fears Iran duped hawks into Iraq war

From the Guardian: "It's pretty clear that Iranians had us for breakfast, lunch and dinner," said an intelligence source in Washington yesterday. "Iranian intelligence has been manipulating the US for several years through Chalabi."

Larry Johnson, a former senior counter-terrorist official at the state department, said: "When the story ultimately comes out we'll see that Iran has run one of the most masterful intelligence operations in history. They persuaded the US and Britain to dispose of its greatest enemy." [John Robb's Weblog]

Eh? Run that by me again. But though they weren't exactly mates, the Iraq/Iran war was over, and there seemed to be reasonable relations between the two countries for the past few years. And to have brought US troops so close, and given the US a chance at steam rollering Iran too? Would this have been simply a case of Iraq's my enemy and so too is the US, but the US is more dangerous, therefore my enemies enemy is my friend, thus Iran would have supported Iraq.

I don't know who to believe anymore.

 Source: John Robb's Weblog; 25/05/2004; 17:45:14.
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