Bush shows "evidence" that Iran sending weapons to Iraq. World yawns and ignores him.http://www.dubyad40.com/2007/02/bush-shows-evidence-that-iran-sending.shtmlOnce again the Bush administration paraded out it's military officers to show "evidence" that Iran is evil and doing naughty things and should be punished. This time, nobody's paying much attention.
Three weeks after promising that it would show proof of Iranian meddling in Iraq, the Bush administration has laid out its evidence - and received in return a healthy dose of skepticism.
Asked for direct evidence linking Iran's leadership to the weapons, Tony Snow, the White House spokesman, said, "Let me put it this way. There's not a whole lot of freelancing in the Iranian government, especially when it comes to something like that."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/13/news/assess.php">Int'l Herald Tribune
If this sounds familiar, maybe it's because we've heard it all before, from Tony's predecessors, and it sounds an awful lot like "crying wolf". Even General Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is calling bullshit on this one.
"That does not translate that the Iranian government per se, for sure, is directly involved in doing this," Pace told reporters in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta. "What it does say is that things made in Iran are being used in Iraq to kill coalition soldiers."
His remarks might raise questions on the credibility of the claims of high-level Iranian involvement, especially following the faulty U.S. intelligence that was used to justify the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6412995,00.html">Guardian
We all see how well that invasion is working out. Forgive us if we're gunshy after being blatantly lied into a war that's cost us a half trillion dollars and 3120 soldiers lives, 23,000 soldiers injured, countless innocent Iraqi's maimed or killed, and the reputation of credibility and respect that our nation used to enjoy throughout the world. But Bush claims to be trying to avoid war, saying he has no plans to go to war.
Administration officials say their approach was carefully calibrated to focus on concerns that Iran is providing potent weapons that are used against U.S. troops in Iraq, not to ignite a wider war.
Take note that this is the same kind of thing he was saying in the run up to his little misbegotten and ill-conceived adventure in Iraq. Even after Colin Powell presented his case to the U.N., Bush was still "claiming" to be trying to avoid war by using diplomacy. The Iraq War Resolution was signed by Congress not to declare war, but to give Bush "diplomatic" leverage in negotiating with Iraq - leverage, and diplomacy, which he never used - heading straight to the military solution.
So go ahead George, show us all the evidence you've got. Pull out the vials of white powder and the cartoon drawings of trucks and railroad cars and aluminum tubes and grainy satellite pictures of trucks at warehouses and claim they're building noocyoolar weapons and WMD's. Here's what we have to say to you, in your own words:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKgPY1adc0A(posted in full with permission)
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