Learning to Live with the Ayatollahs

By Robert Scheer, AlterNet. Posted November 30, 2006.

If Bush dares to move militarily against Iran, we will become mired in a bloody conflict that knows no borders.

How in the world did George W. Bush manage to turn Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the "Supreme Leader" of "Axis of Evil" Iran, into a prophet of peace in the Middle East?

That is the disturbing question that must be asked after Iraq's president journeyed this week to plead for support from what was previously described by the White House as one of the world's most menacing rogue regimes.