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Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Michael Gordon Strikes Again

Judy-In-Disguise pens another neocon mash note, claiming that Iran is totally killing every American in Iraq, based on... military sources.

Attacks on American-led forces using a lethal type of roadside bomb said to be supplied by Iran reached a new high in July, according to the American military.

The devices, known as explosively formed penetrators, were used to carry out 99 attacks last month and accounted for a third of the combat deaths suffered by the American-led forces, Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, the No. 2 commander in Iraq, said in an interview.


I thought nobody was dying in July, wasn't that last week's talking point?

This is absurd. The idea that EFP's can only be made in Iran has already been debunked. They're not really that hard to make. Accepting the military statements (and they're the only ones in the article) from commanders, perpetually looking over their shoulder to wonder if the Bush Administration will fire them, is not good enough. Especially when the military is kind of fucking up all over the place when it comes to weapons:

The Pentagon has lost track of about 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005, according to a new government report, raising fears that some of those weapons have fallen into the hands of insurgents fighting U.S. forces in Iraq.

The author of the report from the Government Accountability Office says U.S. military officials do not know what happened to 30 percent of the weapons the United States distributed to Iraqi forces from 2004 through early this year as part of an effort to train and equip the troops. The highest previous estimate of unaccounted-for weapons was 14,000, in a report issued last year by the inspector general for Iraq reconstruction.


How in the world can a media figure trust the same government sources that have dissembled again and again and have a clear agenda to continue the war machine? I guess I don't understand because I'm not a member of the liberal media.

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