No Surprise Here

While pundits and politicos on the right are very quick to attack any critic of the President for "helping the terrorists", we now have documentation on just who has been working to aid men like Zarqawi.

Documents found at the site of the Zarqawi bombing suggest which side of the American debate may actually be playing right into the terrorists' hands:

"We mean specifically attempting to escalate the tension between America and Iran, and American and the Shiite in Iraq," it quoted the documents as saying, especially among moderate followers of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most influential Shiite cleric in Iraq.

"Creating disputes between America and them could hinder the U.S. cooperation with them, and subsequently weaken this kind of alliance between Shiites and the Americans," it said, adding that "the best solution is to get America involved in a war against another country and this would bring benefits."

This doesn't come as much of a surprise to those with a reasonable understanding of history and international relations, but may come as a shocker to Messrs. Bush and Cheney.