Check out this video of investigative journalist Seymour Hersh explaining how US money is aiding extreme Sunni groups with ties to Al Qaeda. No joke. Or get the full story in Hersh's latest piece in the New Yorker.

It boils down to this: The US has created a quagmire in the MIddle East and is threatened with a loss of power in the region. The country gaining most in this mess is Iran, with a Shiite majority like Iraq. Israel, Saudi Arabia and the US fear a reshaped Middle East where Shiites in Iran and Iraq would hold sway on a large part of the world's oil supply. So ... the Bush administration has launched its redirection strategy, which funnels aid to Sunni groups in an attempt to quell Iran. The ugly twist is, of course, that it is the extreme Sunni groups who do the most killing of US troops. And now our tax dollars are funding them.

Support the troops anyone? This looks to be way worse than Iran-Contra. The only patriotic thing to do is to impeach both Bush and Cheney, and quickly, before they create another smokescreen to hide behind.