Holy Diver

Link:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...,2695314.story

This is good news. NOW, only if it was a bigger story.

WASHINGTON — Bush administration officials acknowledged Friday that they had yet to compile evidence strong enough to back up publicly their claims that Iran is fomenting violence against U.S. troops in Iraq.

Administration officials have long complained that Iran was supplying Shiite Muslim militants with lethal explosives and other materiel used to kill U.S. military personnel. But despite several pledges to make the evidence public, the administration has twice postponed the release — most recently, a briefing by military officials scheduled for last Tuesday in Baghdad.

"The truth is, quite frankly, we thought the briefing overstated, and we sent it back to get it narrowed and focused on the facts," national security advisor Stephen J. Hadley said Friday.

Fixit

Like something as meaningless as facts will make a difference.

BelichickFan

Not sure which part you're saying is good news.

If you mean that they don't want to overstate "facts" like they probably did with Iraq, then that's good.

If you mean that they can't prove it is good in and of itself - that's not good because we can't solve the problem until we can show what the problem is.

Real World

All the Mil blogs I've read have been pointing a finger in Iran's direction for a couple of years now. I remember when a Stryker was evaporated by a shaped charge killing some 14 men inside in '04 or '05, and everyone said it was Iranian shaped explosives that did it. At any rate, I think we'd be naive to not think that Iran is meddling against us in Iraq. Afterall, why wouldn't they? When they raided that office in Mosul (or was it Tikrit?) and detained the Iranians, they found all kinds of weapons related materials. Why would the Iranian office have such stuff, if it was a laison office as decribed? Common sense tells us they're doing something is all I'm trying to say.

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"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him."
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Holy Diver

Good news that there is no hard evidence, and that the congress and the american public is fully aware of what happens when one cries wolf.

A person once said:

"Fool me once......shame on, shame on you?....fool me....we can't get fooled again"

363839

Holy Diver, Do You really believe Iran has nothing to do with the insurgancy in Iraq?

BelichickFan

I'm still not sure which part of this you're happy about.

LOL. George isn't that smart but that saying can be screwed up easily if you just say it without thinking it our ahead first.

Harry Boy

Kill Their Donkeys

Nuke The Middle East Before They All Kill Each Other

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Fixit

If they're going to kill each other anyway, why waste a nuke?

Holy Diver

I believe there are A LOT of reasons for the 'insurgancy' in Iraq.

US Occupation
Sunni, Shiite, Kurdish Strife
Al Quaeda

You see how this all gets twisted....all of this started with 9-11.....and Al Quaeda. WMDs...regime change...now its propoganda saying that Iran is helping the 'insurgants' ????????????

If they are so bad, why did we just sell them parts for thir fighter jets? Why does our military help them? Why are we as a military trying to escalate the violence there.

Iran is not the cause of the violence in the middle east. It has always been violent.