Larry Franklin: Wolfowitz & Feith saw "shock-and-awe" as scaring Iran into "ground-level neutrality"

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http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/spytalk/2009/07/israel-spy-scandal-figure-larr.html#comments

Israel 'Spy Scandal' Figure Larry Franklin Breaks Silence

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Even Wolfowitz and Feith, leading neoconservative hawks, Franklin said, "thought Iran could be part of the solution in Iraq and not part of the problem, that they would see a common interest with us in getting rid of Saddam, and that by shock-and-awe we would scare them into ground-level neutrality."

("That's not at all an accurate rendering of my thinking," Feith responded by e-mail.)

Franklin said he was "entirely convinced" that the invading Americans would be "coming home in body bags in bunches," as a result of Iranian-sponsored terrorism, about which the administration knew nothing.

"They were preparing an entrapment for us, to get us in and never let us out," Franklin maintained, and the Bush administration had "no policy" to deal with it.

"Larry was frustrated because U.S. policy was contradictory," Hillary Mann Leverett, a national security council official who dealt with Franklin, recalled in a telephone interview.

[Me.]

1. His Story Has A Whiff To It

Doesn't add up. How did he have this info and no one else seemed to? Also, if he was invited to that meeting in Italy he was more than a little guy.