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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (730021)	3/8/2006 1:40:00 AM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Yup, everything that Bush has screwed up is the fault of the liberal media, right? Yes, folks, Iraq is in such a sorry state because of...the liberal media. You guys are pathetic. It used to be that one of the planks of the right was 'personal responsibility'. I guess that got thrown out the window along with fiscal responsibility, upholding the rights of the individual, and non-colonial foreign responsibility. I think we should hold a contest to rename the Republican party. After all, only the name remains the same. I think we should revive the old 'Know Nothing Party' moniker to replace the GOP. Perfect fit.

To: PROLIFE who wrote (730021)	3/8/2006 2:06:02 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

EXCLUSIVE: Iraq Weapons -- Made in Iran? Intelligence Officials Say Weapons Responsible for Increasing U.S. Deaths in Iraq By BRIAN ROSS, RICHARD ESPOSITO and JILL RACKMILL abcnews.go.com March 6, 2006 — - 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." 'Very Lethal' 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. John Negroponte, director of national intelligence, testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Feb. 2, saying, "Tehran's intention to inflict pain on the United States and Iraq has been constrained by its caution to avoid giving Washington an excuse to attack it." The U.S. Army has embarked on a crash effort to find ways to stop the bombs, according to an unclassified report issued last month. The devices are easily hidden and detonated by motion detectors -- like those used in garden security lights -- that cannot be jammed. When exploded, the copper disc becomes a molten liquid bullet that can penetrate the thickest armor the United States has. "They penetrate the armor of an M1 Abrams tank," Clarke says. "They're shape charges. They go through anything, and they are very lethal." There is currently no real defense against the weapons, he says. "The Pentagon has a major crash study under way to figure out how to stop them," Clarke says, "but they haven't figured it out yet." Copyright © 2006 ABC News Internet Ventures