The Shias rebelled against Saddam Hussein… and were left out to dry in the nineties. Now, after it was the Sunnis who worked with Al Qaeda to attack US forces repeatedly in Iraq, Bush is turning against the Shias in Iraq, Lebanon, everywhere, all because he discovered, belatedly, that his war was strengthening Iran’s influence. If his administration really didn’t understand that before Shock and Awe, they have no business designing foreign policy.

So rolling over on the Shias: a double-cross by the world’s greatest terror gang (Team BushDick) that can’t be trusted by any Muslim sect?

The ever-prescient Seymour Hersh provides the sordid details of the Bush betrayal and the scenario ahead for the next Bush war with Iran.

Update: Having mulled over Hersh’s reports further, here’s what really infuriates: all the gambling going on in the backroom, with Bush funding more terror groups.

Didn’t he ever learn the definition of the word ‘blowback’?

I don’t need to hear condescending attitudes suggesting all the covert actions are too much for a simpleton to absorb. I just know that if you lie down with every dog in the neighborhood, you’re going to get fleas, mange and a rabid bite or two.

Bush is abandoning any moral force the US ever gained by going along with Cheney’s vampire-like requirement to operate in the dark. And the fact is that exposing all the various sub-groups at work in the Middle East and challenging them openly to quit the terror life remains the only honest way to unite the country and our allies around the globe to ward off the worst of the lot.

Hersh reveals that Bush is risking funding Al Qaeda itself! And the reality is that Iran is a sufficiently advanced, pro-Western society. If, through honest negotiations, its clerics could be persuaded to end their emnity towards Israel, it could serve as the buffer against Sunni extremists who have done the bulk of attacks on our country in the past two decades, (with the Shia record of hostility towards us largely confined to less than a decade long ago.)

As it stands now, if the world turned the post- 9/11 Bush question around and asked him if he was ‘with or against’ the terrorists, the only honest answer he could give is ‘both.’

And therein lies both a moral and strategic disaster in the making.

At this point, I feel there’s only one way left for the country to clear itself from the ambiguity, dishonesty and potential for blowback. Bush and Cheney must be impeached for giving aid and comfort to too many enemies to count.

More:

Digby and Lambert provide good summaries.

A simple question we might all ask the American public: is it okay that Bush is now funding terror groups including, in all probability, Al Qaeda?

Who’s playing into the hands of Al Qaeda? Who’s giving aid and support to our enemies?

Congress now has every reason to begin a full investigation as a prelude to impeachment proceedings… for treason.

At ThinkProgress, there’s video of Sy Hersh making the same point as I have:

All of this should be investigated by Congress, by the way, and I trust it will be. In my talking to membership — members there, they are very upset that they know nothing about this. And they have great many suspicions.

We are simply in a situation where this president is really taking his notion of executive privilege to the absolute limit here, running covert operations, using money that was not authorized by Congress, supporting groups indirectly that are involved with the same people that did 9/11, and we should be arresting these people rather than looking the other way…

So get on it. Email your reps. I can’t imagine any issue bigger that could ever deserve more of your emailing time.