President Bush’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan “have put Israel in the worst strategic and operational situation she’s been in since 1948,’ said Larry Wilkerson, who was Colin Powell’s chief of staff in the State Department [in an interview with author Craig Unger in October 2006]. ‘If you take down Iraq, you eliminate Iran’s number one enemy. And…if you eliminate the Taliban, they might reasonably be assumed to be Iran’s number two enemy.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 339