As we all know, the WOT is a bogus piece of horse-manure that really is now clearly exposed as a folkloric fiction - a sort of sheep-focussed Rorschach Test that serves the only useful function of being a benchmark suitable for measuring the degree to which those that support it have abandoned the smallest scintilla of rational thought and embraced their zombie status with all the passion and zeal of a born-again preacher phoning a gay masseuse . The so-called 'enemies' - ie al-Qaeda - are not the enemies at all.

Firstly, there is a large amount of evidence that this group does not exist.

Secondly, if it did exist , it would be a Wahabi outfit. But the Wahabis are actually the main allies in the WOT. Wahabi enemies are US enemies.

And of course, these enemies are the people who really ARE at war with 'al Qaeda'; Iran and Syria. The very States that oppose the Sunni extremism that the US so brazenly and falsely claims it too is fighting.

So much for the background.

Now it appears that not only is the US tacitly working alongside 'al Qaeda' for essentially the same goals but it is actually illegally funding these groups (http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/49275/) in order to achieve them. Very likely with looted Iraqi funds.

Speaking of an illegal black-op run out of Cheney's Office in true Iran-Contra stylee, the above article says of these 'black' funds:

Some of these funds, as well as Saudi ones, were evidently funneled through the embattled, Sunni-dominated Lebanese government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora to the sort of Sunni jihadi groups ("some sympathetic to al-Qaeda") whose members might normally fear ending up in Guantanamo and to a group, or groups, associated with the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood.

All of this was being done as part of a "sea change" in the Bush administration's Middle Eastern policies aimed at rallying friendly Sunni regimes against Shiite Iran, as well as Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Syrian government -- and launching secret operations to undermine, roll back, or destroy all of the above. Despite the fact that the Bush administration is officially at war with Sunni extremism in Iraq (and in the more general Global War on Terror), despite its support for the largely Shiite government, allied to Iran, that it has brought to power in Iraq, and despite its dislike for the Sunni-Shiite civil war in that country, some of its top officials may be covertly encouraging a far greater Sunni-Shiite rift in the region.

Can you say breathtaking hypocrisy that eclipses the previous obscene records of these all time world-beating scumbag shysters?

I knew you could....