Wanker Joe

Juan Cole points to yet another reason why the Iran war hawks, aka Boltin' Joe Lieberman, are completely out-to-lunch:

That is why Senator Joe Lieberman's call for aggressive air strikes on Iran are unlikely to eventuate. Bush needs Abdul Aziz al-Hakim of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council in order to avoid immediate and complete defeat in Iraq, and SIIC is very, very close to Iran [my emphasis]. Lieberman doesn't seem to understand, by the way, that Iraqi Shiites would mind the US bombing their coreligionists and would probably massacre the entire British garrison in Basra as well as interdict US fuel convoys to the north from Kuwait and Basra. His irresponsible warmongering would get a lot of US troops killed for no good reason.

Minor detail as Joe continues to get your various Arab types all mixed up. They are, afterall, all the same. Right?

In other news, Juan casually mentions that Iran is cooperating, via the use of it's military, with Turkey in pursuing Kurdish insurgents in northern Iraq. Is it any wonder the Kurds don't want the U.S. to leave?