Michelle Bachmann, the same woman who groped Bush like she was checking a melon, now says that Iran has a secret plan to invade Iraq and develop a terrorist training ground, according to KARE-11, the Twin Cities NBC affiliate.
To find out all the juicy details from this freshman Congresswoman, read on below.
She's already mastered Republican trait of using massively inappropriate analogies:
"Iran is the trouble maker, trying to tip over apple carts all over Baghdad right now because they want America to pull out," Bachmann, a freshman Minnesota Republican, told the St. Cloud Times "And you know why? It's because they've already decided that they're going to partition Iraq."
Trying to tip over apple carts. Apparently that's what she thinks of all the bombings in Iraq, including the ones in marketplaces that might actually disrupt her precious apple carts. To her, thousands of dead Iraqis are just a few spoiled apples.
I suppose those partitioned portions of Iraq will get new names, right Michelle?
"And half of Iraq, the western, northern portion of Iraq, is going to be called the United -- I'm sorry, I can't remember the actual name of it now -- but it's going to be called, the Iraq State of Islam, something like that. And I'm sorry, I don't have the official name, but it is meant to be the training ground for the terrorists. There's already an agreement made."
An agreement made with WHOM?! Between the terrorists and the Iraqis, the terrorists and the Iranians, the Iraqis and the Iranians, or all three? I also have a feeling that the Kurds might have something to say about what happens to the northern portion of Iraq. Or maybe that part doesn't count.
Now, the only logical conclusion I can think of is that she's acting as a Bush-Cheney mouthpiece. She's so far down the wingnut trail she's incapable of independent thinking. It also gets disinformation out to the public from a source without much of a spotlight, unlike those goons who gave the IED briefing in Baghdad.
Besides, where else would a member of the Financial Services Committee get this kind of crazy, war drum beating information?
Update [2007-2-23 21:28:50 by guyermo]:
Hey, guess what kids. Apparently those statements of absolute fact were misconstrued!
But I guess her research staff finally figured out some important features of Iraq...namely that she was having Shi'a Iran occupy Sunni and Kurdish Iraq while leaving the Iraqi Shi'a out in the cold. A geography lesson from her staff:
"I am sorry if my words have been misconstrued, but it is well known that Iraq is a conglomeration of many groups of people that emerged out of European colonialization. The three primary sects in Iraq are Kurds, Sunnis and Shi’a, and the idea that Iraq might be partitioned into three distinct entities — Kurdish, Shiite and Sunni - has been intermittently considered
since the beginning of the Iraq war in 2003. One of the reasons that this never became policy is because the Shi’a and the Kurds had larger states that many believed would have engulfed them, either peacefully or by force - Turkey in the case of the Kurds, and Iran in the case of the Shi’a.
Oh, and about that secret plan on which there's been an agreement?
"Although it is difficult to ascertain Iran’s intentions toward Iraq, they are clearly not in the U.S. interest - for example, the Iranian weapons that have fallen into the hands of insurgents. If Iran is allowed to freely operate in Iraq and continues to thwart the U.S. and the Iraqi government, then we may very well see a de facto partition in which the Western Anbar province continues to house and develop terrorists."
So that in that part where she originally said agreement, the word "agreement" was misconstrued to mean something other than "If Iran is allowed to freely operate in Iraq and continues to thwart the U.S. [...] then we may very well see a de facto partition..."
Glad that's all cleared up now.