Bush says Components from Iran Increasingly Make Up Bombs for Iraq

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/WAT005052.htm

BUSH SAYS COMPONENTS FROM IRAN INCREASINGLY MAKE UP BOMBS FOR IR
13 Mar 2006 18:47:20 GMT

Source: Reuters

BUSH SAYS COMPONENTS FROM IRAN INCREASINGLY MAKE UP BOMBS FOR IRAQI INSURGENTS

update:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N13289921.htm

Bush says some Iraqi bombs made in Iran


WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush accused Iran on Monday of contributing to the unrest in Iraq, saying some of the homemade bombs that are wreaking havoc in the country came from that Iraq's eastern neighbor.

Locked in a test of wills with Iran over its nuclear ambitions, Bush said during a speech about the Iraq war that "some of the most powerful IEDs (improvised explosive devices) we are seeing in Iraq today include components that came from Iran."

...

Quoting his national intelligence director John Negroponte, Bush said Iran has been responsible for at least some of the increasing lethality of attacks in Iraq.

"Coalition forces have seized IEDs and components that were clearly produced in Iran," Bush said.

[Mythsaje]

1. Your point, George?

What are you going to do about it? Attack Iran? Sure, that'll go well. We can't handle Iraq, what makes you think we can handle Iran TOO?

God, what an idiot.

[bowens43]

2. We should believe this because??????

Because the bushies say so? Sorry,that's not enough. Liars and criminals are not credible.

[tatertop]

7. I believe the Two Minutes Speech

The more bizarre and twisted, the more I like it

[rodeodance]

3. old news Bush.

[Webster Green]

4. Was he laughing and smirking when he said it?

Fuck the chimp!

[Sadie5]

9. I don't believe anything he says

Lying thieving criminal.

[rodeodance]

24. I thought he was rather quiet--not interested in what he was saying.

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. What? They finally ran through the 380 tons of explosives

that we let them get from the unattended ammo dump south of Baghdad?

Do they really think ANYONE is going to believe this?

[tatertop]

13. Never go with yesterday's facts when you can go with this week's lies

Besides, for 99% of the sheep that 380 tons has already disappeared down the memory hole

[xxqqqzme]

25. go w/ 'this weak lie'

is more like it.

[tatertop]

27. yes, very weak indeed!

:)

[tonkatoy57]

6. Oh Boy

I can't believe one thing that any person in this administration says. I've been lied to so many times.

I'd think that we left enough unguarded explosives around that they wouldn't run out for many years to come.

I call bullshit on this.

[htuttle]

8. Hmm...the government of Iran stands to inherit Iraq by proxy

...so why would they arm the insurgents fighting against the militias and factions they openly support? (ie., Dawa Party, SCIRI, Badr Brigades, etc...)

:crazy:

If they said *Syria* was supplying the Iraqi insurgents, at least it would make more sense -- I don't think they are either, but at least it would be a more plausible lie.

[patcox2]

10. Which Bombs? Iranians are Shiites, they would not support Sunnis

This is really absurd. Iran was at war with Saddam Hussein for 8 years. They hate the Sunni-hussein faction that appears to make up the majority of the resistance.The Iranians are closely allied with the Shiite leaders in Iraq.

For this statement to be a true at all, it would have to mean that the Iranians are arming the government-connected Shiite death squads.

[pinniped]

11. These POS said this a few months ago.

Recycle, since sheep didn't get the message the first time.

[MadMaddie]

12. I suppose the next thing they will do is to show proof...

with magnet board and cutouts showing how the Iranians are doing it!! (Colin Powell)

:sarcasm:

[Roland99]

14. Is this from that BBC article from a few months ago?

And wasn't that BBC article debunked or it debunked the claims??

[sabra]

20. first BBC and then ABC a week and half ago... and now BushCo

[Roland99]

22. Bingo! Found the DU thread from GD from a week ago >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=598589

[sabra]

23. cool thanks.

[grytpype]

15. Iran has us right where they want us...

... we took out their worst enemy in the region and then got our balls caught in a wringer.

Worst strategic defeat since Vietnam, and this one is actually going to have repercussions for us, unlike losing Vietnam... Bush is the worst president ever, period.

[KansDem]

16. What about the tons and tons of explosives left unguarded...

and stolen from an ammo dump that you had captured?


Tons of Iraq explosives missing

CNN) -- Some 380 tons of explosives powerful enough to detonate nuclear warheads are missing from a former Iraqi military facility that was supposed to be under American control, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency says.
(more)
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/25/iraq.explosives/

Think those might also be showing up in bombs in Iraq?

[Whoa_Nelly]

17. What total Bullshit! Follow the US & UK--Iran history of bomb materials

Start with this 2005 article that includes information re: Poppy's reign

http://www.hirhome.com/iraniraq/gulfwar.htm#prelude

And this article from 2002 re: UK selling materials to Iran

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2275249.stm



Feel free to add more info about how the US and the UK have supplied Iran over the years.

[earthside]

18. The Pretext for an Iran Attack

I just now posted this on my web site!

Earthside Comments: It just doesn't sound good.

The first link reports that Field Marshall von Rumsfeld and Commandant 'Pollyanna' Peter Pace are laying the ground work for the proximate pretext for suddenly and deliberately attacking Iran. The cooked-up nuclear weapons story, we think, is just to create an atmosphere of fear and a general feeling that Iran needs to be 'taken care of'.

But it will be Iranians 'caught' (who will ever know?) killing or wounding American soldiers that will precepitate a Bush order to swiftly retaliate -- no time to get Congressional approval.

The second link is to an article the explains just how serious will be an American attack on Iran.

And, two links to a news report about von Rumsfeld and 'Pollyanna' Pace saying last Friday basically what Bush just said. I also linked to a good article about iran that appeared today at TomPaine.com.

I'm tellin' ya ... the radicals are going to bomb Iran ... it's coming!

[Teaser]

19. Insane

yes, the shi'ah Iranian theocracy wants to see Sunni insurgents overthrow their shi'ah Iraqi theocracy.

[Ganja Ninja]

21. Right! Iranian's are supplying bombs to the Sunnis...

to use on the Shiites. Duhhhhhhh, No reason not to believe that.:eyes:

[bluerum]

26. Save us * save us. This is such a joke.

[alcibiades_mystery]

28. Yeah, the SCIRI Shia decided to arm the tribal, secular Sunni insurgency

Gimme a break.

:eyes:

Here's where the components come from: From the massive stockpiles and armories that you left unattended because you thought you were playing risk. From the thousand and one mini-armories that your generals (who appear, forgive me, to be nothing more than a pack of bootlicking imbeciles) left unattended because they were playing fantasy war and imagining World War II, rather than attending to the specificity of this weirdo place called "Iraq." From thousands of international arms dealers, who have no quibbles about supplying the "Hajis" - as long as they put up some flow. From secret elements within the Russian and Chinese governments, who are, I assure you, lovin' every minute of it. From the Iranians, who would make out like bandits from a stabilized Iraq under Shia hegemony? Hardly fucking think so. Only a fucking propogandist liar and his completely stupefied followers would believe (or try to make us believe) anything that stupid.

[george_hurley]

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