Posted on 03/06/2006 1:34:45 PM PST by jmc1969
U.S. military and intelligence officials tell ABC News that they have caught shipments of deadly new bombs at the Iran-Iraq border.
They are a very nasty piece of business, capable of penetrating U.S. troops' strongest armor.
What the United States says links them to Iran are tell-tale manufacturing signatures certain types of machine-shop welds and material indicating they are built by the same bomb factory.
"The signature is the same because they are exactly the same in production," says explosives expert Kevin Barry. "So it's the same make and model."
U.S. officials say roadside bomb attacks against American forces in Iraq have become much more deadly as more and more of the Iran-designed and Iran-produced bombs have been smuggled in from the country since last October.
"I think the evidence is strong that the Iranian government is making these IEDs, and the Iranian government is sending them across the border and they are killing U.S. troops once they get there," says Richard Clarke, former White House counterterrorism chief and an ABC News consultant. "I think it's very hard to escape the conclusion that, in all probability, the Iranian government is knowingly killing U.S. troops."
U.S. intelligence officials say Iran is using the bombs as a way to drive up U.S. casualties in Iraq but without provoking a direct confrontation.
"They penetrate the armor of an M1 Abrams tank," Clarke says. "They're shape charges. They go through anything, and they are very lethal."
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It may be time we send the mullahs off to get their 72 raisins.
Sure, if the US Congress had any gonads
"Wonder how long we're going to tolerate this ?"
I'm afraid for a long time. At least until Bush is out of office. He no longer has any political capital to open another front in the war. Congress would de-fund it quickly screaming about another "illegal war".
The Iranians will not be blamed for the American deaths in Iraq, even though the IED's were made in Iran. As I said before, Bush will be blamed for "making the Iranians" supply bombs to the "freedom fighters".
This is the same type of thing that happened in Vietnam, the enemy used the borders of other countries to hide from the war. We lost that war because we used a political scope, to fight it. If we do not cut off weapon, supply and manpower lines in this war, we will lose. It is that simple. If we know that Iraq is supplying weapons, and we do not bomb their factories, we admit that we are weak. We know what weakness in the face of Islam gets you.
Bush doesn't need Congress to bomb the hell out of Iran.
Probably time to start writing your representatives:
http://www.house.gov/
http://www.senate.gov
And have been since 1979.
There's no reason to have a direct confrontation. Simply utilize stealth aircraft to deliver bombs with markings clearly indicating a North Korean origin, and then let the party begin...
Then why are we winning so spectacularly now, despite those problems?
Bush needs to go on national prime time TV. Make his case about Iran and give them an ultimatum.
Luckily, I doubt President Bush will sit by and wait for us to be blown to smithereens because he's worried about people criticizing him.
I don't think it is on his agenda. We need to provide some pressure, I think.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
This is breaking on ABC?
Many of the Troops in Iraq now have known this sort of for a good while.
I guess the MSM can't contain their "scoop" for much longer than they have already done.
Well, supposedly these were from pre-1990, when everybody and his brother (with the almost unique exception of the US) supplied weapons to Iraq.
I think some of these were in fact post-1990, but its a difficult thing to prove. That was a violation of UN resolutions.
This is worse. These are arms supplied to active enemies of both the US and of a legitimate Iraqi government, an act of war against both.
Call in the B-2's and bomb the factory and everything nearby to $hit.
...crammed up the keisters of the brave warriors of Islam who so love to blow up innocent women and children.
I'm pretty sure the French weapons that were found were made AFTER our decision to go into Iraq. One of the first pilots to be shot down was shot down with a French missile, and that is the one I'm referring too. I could be wrong, but I don't think I am.
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