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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (24707)2/12/2007 11:01:06 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
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By Tom W. in the Power Line Forum, on the briefing delivered today in Baghdad on Iranian support for insurgents in Iraq:

<<< The briefing, contrary to the spin put out by fanatical "Bush Lied" deniers, presented the following evidence:

1) fragments of Iranian-made weapons, identified by markings and machining processes;

2) statements by detained Iranian agents that Iran has supplied insurgents with weapons and the training in how to use them;

3) ID cards of Iranian agents caught in the act of planting explosives.

billroggio.com

Of course, we can all put our thumbs in our mouths and keep on screeching "Bush Lied!" like babbling infants afraid of the dark.

But if the Iranians are doing these things--and I don't believe that it's all a pack of lies presented by the troops we support even though they're pathological liars--then they must be stopped. Period. Planting explosives that kill American soldiers is an act of war. Period.

The Iranians are adults who make informed choices. They must live with the consequences of their choices. If the consequences are lots of dead Iranians, too frigging bad.

They should've thought of that before they decided start killing American soldiers. >>>

That's one logical reaction to the briefing, but I think the administration has something more "nuanced" in mind. And lots of liberals are defending the mullahs against any suspicion of fomenting violence in Iraq. At one time, we would have called this an instance of politics making strange bedfellows; by now, however, it no longer seems so strange.

powerlineblog.com

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