WAR WHORE LEDEEN "CRITICIZES" OUR IC

In an NRO post, Michael Ledeen tries to belittle our own Intelligence Community by noting that "These are the same guys who have been telling us for years that Sunnis and Shiites can’t work together..."

Now, this is so WRONG that it's tempting to think that Ledeen was trying to be amusing but I'm afraid he's serious. In this, he tows the same line that Wolfowitz and Kristol have and like them, is terribly wrong.

Here's just one of many recent counter-examples:

Breakdown in Baghdad
By Tiare Rath
The Institute for War & Peace Reporting
Seattle Times
Thursday, December 6, 2007 - Page updated at 12:00 AM

BAGHDAD — Ali Sadiq knew he needed to take his Mercedes to a mechanic to get it running again. But it wasn't just the expense that prevented him from taking his car to an auto-repair shop.

Sadiq is a Shiite. Most of the mechanics qualified to work on either German- or American-manufactured vehicles are Sunnis whose shops are located in Sheikh Omar, a Sunni-controlled area.

"No other mechanics can fix the problem," Sadiq said.

And there was no way Sadiq was going to risk traveling into that hotbed of anti-Shia sentiment. So for now, the Mercedes sits motionless near Sadiq's home.

Auto repairs are just one of the scores of small businesses that have been affected as the Iraqi capital grows more divided along sectarian lines. Shias no longer dare to frequent Sunni small businesses and vice versa.