Michele, my belle. These are words that I remember well:

I know I don't post here that often, but every once and a while I find a story sooooo good I just can't help myself. Today it is Representative Michele Bachman (R, MN-6) and her crazy talk. She was quoted as saying that Iran has a secret plan to divide Iraq and then said that her words were misconstrued.

You make the call!

Rep. Michele Bachmann, in a Feb. 9 interview with the St. Cloud Times:

"Iran is the troublemaker, trying to tip over apple carts all over Baghdad right now because they want America to pull out. And do you know why? It's because they've already decided that they're going to partition Iraq.
And half of Iraq, the western, northern portion of Iraq, is going to be called ... the Iraq State of Islam, something like that. And I'm sorry, I don't have the official name, but it's meant to be the training ground for the terrorists. There's already an agreement made.
They are going to get half of Iraq and that is going to be a terrorist safe haven zone where they can go ahead and bring about more terrorist attacks in the Middle East region and then to come against the United States because we are their avowed enemy."

From Bachmann's statement Friday afternoon:

"I am sorry if my words have been misconstrued. ... Although it is difficult to ascertain Iran's intentions toward Iraq, they are clearly not in the U.S. interest. ... If Iran is allowed to freely operate in Iraq and continues to thwart the U.S. and the Iraqi government, then we may very well see a de facto partition in which the Western Anbar province continues to house and develop terrorists."