Bush, Obama, Iran and Wikileaks documents

Eli Lake, in the Washington Times this morning plucks from the Wikileaks documents released on Friday a reminder that the Bush Administration was concerned about Iranian interference in the Iraq war.

In one case, the military circulated a Dec. 22, 2006, warning that a group known as Jaish al-Mahdi planned to kidnap U.S. soldiers. The man planning the operation, Sheik Azhar al-Dulaimi, was trained by Hezbollah terrorists near the Iranian city of Qom, the document stated. Hezbollah is a Lebanon-based militia that was founded, trained and funded by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.

When John Kyl and Joe Lieberman tried to push a condemnation of Iran’s interference in the war and an attempt to designate the Iranian Republican Guards as a foreign terrorist group, the junior senator from Illinois opposed the resolution;

Barack Obama, as a Democratic senator from Illinois, opposed the resolution at the time but also used the vote in support of the measure by Hillary Rodham Clinton, then a Democratic senator from New York, to attack her anti-war credentials during public debate in the run-up to the Iowa caucuses.

In a letter to Iowa voters from October 2007, Mr. Obama said the resolution was dangerous because “George Bush and Dick Cheney could use this language to justify keeping our troops in Iraq as long as they can point to a threat from Iran. And because they could use this language to justify an attack on Iran as a part of the ongoing war in Iraq.”

More of that “smart diplomacy” at work, no doubt. How could Bush and Cheney “justify keeping our troops in Iraq” when they didn’t really need to justify anything for their year remaining in office? And they kept the troops in Iraq anyway, didn’t they?

I guess it’s just an example of how well Obama can convince and scare the empty-headed Leftists with any old thing to keep them in line.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Terror War