Richard Perle, agent of the Iranians?

Unbelievable. To think of Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, et al, duped by agents of the Iranian government, would be a sweet thing, except that it now begins to appear that we are at war in Iraq because of said agents' disinformation.

Jordan's King Abdullah fueled the U.S. move against Iraqi leader Ahmed Chalabi by providing bombshell intelligence that his group was spying for Iran, The Post has learned.

An explosive dossier that the Jordanian monarch recently brought with him to White House sessions with President Bush detailed Mafia-style extortion rackets and secret information on U.S. military operations being passed to Iran, diplomats said.

Talking Points Memo writes extensively of the revelations flooding in of Chalabi's ties to Iran. Some of these charges aren't exactly new, but they have apparently been confirmed, leading to Chalabi's abrupt change of status in the White House.

But something else is going on here, as TPM concludes.

"Tergiversation?"

We are witnessing a remarkable era in the history of the Republic. As Iraq grows ever more chaotic, so too does our government.

Update at 6:37pm:

tergiversation

\Ter`gi*ver*sa"tion\, n. [L. tergiversario: cf. F. tergiversation.] 1. The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion.

Writing is to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being freer from passions and tergiversations. --Abp. Bramhall.

2. Fickleness of conduct; inconstancy; change.

The colonel, after all his tergiversations, lost his life in the king's service. --Clarendon.