More Informed Comment

The dogged mind of Juan Cole keeps putting the pieces of the Franklin-Israel-FBI jigsaw together:

"So, if you could work up a presidential directive on Iran that, e.g., threatened military action against the Iranian nuclear facilities at Bushehr, and could put it about the Pentagon that AIPAC and the Israelis had signed off on it, you might be able to make a US air attack on Bushehr happen. When the final draft was presented to Bush for his signature, Karl Rove (Bush's campaign chief) could be assured that Bush would get brownie points (big money and votes) from AIPAC if he signed. That is, in my view, why Franklin was willing to risk sharing confidential Pentagon policy documents with AIPAC and the Israelis. He was cultivating them as a key constituency for the aggressive policies he was formulating..."

Cole also ridicules the tired Bush mantra that "this is a war we did not seek":

No American president has more desperately sought out a war with any country than George W. Bush sought out this war with Iraq.'