NYT: In WikiLeaks, Handing Iraq to Iran →

In December 2005, the Saudi king expressed his anger that the Bush administration had ignored his advice against going to war. According to a cable from the American Embassy in Riyadh, the king argued “that whereas in the past the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Saddam Hussein had agreed on the need to contain Iran, U.S. policy had now given Iraq to Iran as a ‘gift on a golden platter.’ ”

Ironically, I heard a similar statement this weekend from someone who was recently in the Middle East as part of a mission trip.

(via Instapaper)