Michelle Bachman (R-MN) made big news a few weeks back when she told a St. Cloud Times reporter about Iran's secret plan to partition Iraq and turn it into a terrorist safe haven:
And half of Iraq, the western, northern portion of Iraq, is 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’s meant to be the training ground for the terrorists. There’s already an agreement made.
They are going to get half of Iraq and that is going to be a terrorist safe haven zone where they can go ahead and bring about more terrorist attacks in the Middle East region and then to come against the United States because we are their avowed enemy.
Turns out, though, that when Rep. Bachmann said "[t]here's already an agreement made," what she really meant was "I'm a crazy insane person."
In a Star Tribune Op-ed piece today, she explains:
I said that an agreement had already been made to divide Iraq and create a safe haven for terrorists. Rather, I meant that America's adversaries are in agreement that a divided Iraq benefits their objective to expel America from the region, resulting in Iraq being a safe haven for terrorists.
Ah. So when she claimed to know of an agreement that was "already made," she was simply referring to an ill-defined assumption by unknown "adversaries" that if they could just get the US out of Iraq, the country would become a safe haven for terrorists. Our bad for taking her original comments out of context.
Still, we are apparently not supposed to get hung up on the point that Rep. Bachmann got caught trying to pass off a bullshit "agreement" to partition Iraq as fact. Rather, the point, she claims, is that the threat of Iran is "very real."
Ok, so to sum up: Threat of Iran = Very Real; Evidence proving that threat exists = Total Crap.
(Rep. Bachmann's BFF, President Bush has a similar problem - witness the little-reported story that "a makeshift factory in Iraq was making those super-IEDs that we were told could only be made in Iran.")
Ugh.