IRAN: HOT OR NOT?

Watched Syriana again – what a feat, in acting, in screenwriting – and, spurred by Chris’s dirty-global-dealings brainfont, not to mention my concurrent reading of the behemoth anthology of brit journalist Robert Fisk’s reportage from the middle east – I am newly obsessed with Robert Baer, the former CIA agent on whose experiences that movie, Syriana, was based. The most recent interview w/dude I can find is this one in Mother Jones, conducted upon the dual release of his documentary on suicide bombers, and his novel “imagining” additional perpetrators in the 9/11 attacks. It’s essential reading, especially if you are, like me, just at the very edge of understanding what the H is going on with Iran – he provides some non-partisan insidery background and perspective on the current situation. (Memo to presidential candidates.)
MJ.com: So if we were go back in time a few years, do you think the country we should have paid attention to was Iran, not Iraq?
RB: We should have dealt with Iran. I’m not saying attack it; I’m saying we should have taken it seriously. The Iranian connection to 9/11 is much stronger than the Iraqi one ever was. That was the big lie: That Saddam had something to do with 9/11—not the WMD—the connection between Saddam and bin Laden. We were spun on that and we were spun on the famous Prague meeting between Mohammed Atta and Iraqi intelligence, which was a complete lie. Both the CIA and the FBI came out and said that never happened.
If you have read Baer’s novel Blow the House Down, pls tell me what you did think? I’d run to the library and get it right now if I weren’t busy coughing up my right lung from my sickbed.
Now I’m gonna watch Half Baked.