The George W Bush administration and the top US commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, plotted a sequence of events that would sensationally build domestic US
political support for a possible strike against Iran. Key to this was to be the disclosure of a major cache of Iranian weapons found in Karbala for use by Shi'ite militias. The
weapons turned out to have nothing to do with Iran, and worse, the Iraq government suddenly distanced itself from the US's plan. - Gareth Porter (May 15, '08) ...
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