White House sticks to claim of Iranian involvement in Iraq

[sabra]

http://www.wmcstations.com/Global/story.asp?S=6081748

White House sticks to claim of Iranian involvement in Iraq

WHITE HOUSE The White House says it's confident Iran's regime is behind deadly, armor-piercing bombs in Iraq, despite comments from the Joint Chiefs chairman casting doubt on that claim.

White House Press Secretary Tony Snow says a unit attached to Iran's Revolutionary Guards is responsible for smuggling the weapons into Iraq. And while Snow says there's no way to say for sure who signed the orders, the Iranian government is involved at that level.

General Peter Pace said earlier that the discovery of roadside bombs in Iraq containing material made in Iran does not necessarily mean Tehran is directly involved.

Snow says he's going to "let General Pace speak for himself."

[iconoclastic cat]

1. And they're off! nt

[UpInArms]

2. shithead the younger cannot reverse a custer decision. eom

[gratuitous]

3. Still nobody going on record

Tony Snow, as press secretary, doesn't count. Nobody will go on record as asserting this. Why are the media giving play to anonymous rumors and agitprop designed to do nothing more than stir up the gullible? This is irresponsible reporting in its lowest form, worse than yelling "Fire" in a crowded theater when there is no fire.

[keepCAblue]

4. Who is Michael Sennett?

I downloaded the pdf file USA Today linked to ... the file slideshow that shows the *evidence* of Iran arms in Iraq. The file's document properties showed the following:

File: iran-in-iraq

Title: Microsoft PowerPoint - Final Iran in Iraq 10 Feb 07 (2130).ppt

Author: Michael.Sennett

[UpInArms]

5. that's weird - MICHAEL SENNETT

http://www.bellboyd.com/professionals.php?&page=att&AttorneyID=206&show=fullbio

Michael Sennett chairs the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Department and is a member of the firm's Management and Executive Committees. He leads the firm's practice representing U.S. and foreign companies in antitrust counseling, acquisition and investigation matters before the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission and State Attorneys General and in antitrust litigation matters in courts throughout the U.S. and before administrative agencies.

Mr. Sennett serves as regular antitrust counsel to a number of multi-national companies, businesses, consortia, investment banking firms and trade associations operating domestically and globally in a variety of manufacturing, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, mining, health care, transportation, communications, distribution, retail and service industries.

He concentrates his practice in antitrust law, commercial litigation and trade regulation. His work is before regulatory and antitrust enforcement agencies, as well as in the courts and before grand juries. He also counsels extensively on pricing, distribution, e-commerce, advertising, marketing, technology and intellectual property licensing, patent-antitrust and related trade regulation matters. He is expert in the antitrust aspects of domestic and international mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, as well as criminal antitrust and grand jury matters. He is well practiced in counseling and advising under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Act and in working with foreign antitrust and competition law regimes in merger clearance matters (particularly Australia, Canada and the EU). He regularly handles antitrust, unfair competition, intellectual property and business litigation in courts, agencies and arbitrations (domestic and international).

He is on the adjunct law faculty at Loyola University Chicago, where he teaches antitrust law and international antitrust courses.

Mr. Sennett is named a leading antitrust lawyer in the prestigious Euromoney Institutional Investor's Guide to the World's Leading Competition and Antitrust Lawyers and in Chamber's highly regarded America's Leading Business Lawyers. Mr. Sennett also is named a leading U.S. antitrust attorney in both the Guide to Leading American Attorneys published by Leading Attorneys Network, Inc. and the Leading Lawyers Guide published by the Law Bulletin Publishing Company.

...more...

[keepCAblue]

6. Then there's THIS Michael Sennett...

Army RDECOM Nanotechnology Integrated Product Team (Chair: Dr. Michael Sennett, Natick Soldier Center)

http://bcm.bc.edu/issues/fall_2001/ll_playball.html

The document title includes military time (2130), leading me to think the author is THIS Michael Sennett and not the Michael Sennett anti-trust lawyer from Chicago (google research indicates the Chicago Michael Sennett is a dem who has contributed to dem politicians, including Barack Obama).

But still it begs the question: Why is an Army nanotechnology researcher based at the Natick, MA Soldier Center the author of this "iran in iraq" report?

[spanone]

7. So, Tony knows more than the Joint Chiefs, eh? Why doesn't he share his knowledge?

[HuffleClaw]

8. snow was a right embarrasment

stumbling and stammering and then pretending to be offfended. it was funny.

[SpiralHawk]

9. "We believe it, and so that makes it true." - Commander AWOL

"Screw all those fact-based assessments. We have God on our side,
and all that matters is what we believe. Onward republicon-christian War Profiteers!"

- Commander AWOL

[keepCAblue]

10. Neocon website: Iran Watch

http://www.iranwatch.org/

Interesting that most of the "Private Viewpoints" are from neocon think tanks (AEI, Hoover Institute, etc.) http://www.iranwatch.org/privateviews/

[C_U_L8R]

11. Evidence? They don't need no stinkin' evidence !!

They are the reality makers.
They are the deciders.

It's time for us to be the justice dole-er-outers.

[underpants]

12. (cricket chirp)

No one believes you any more. "The White House says" means nothing.

[LynnTheDem]

13. General Pace; No Evidence Iran Arming Iraqis

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17129144/

Is George W. bUsh calling General Pace, JCS, a LIAR??!