Marching On To Iran

Here we go again.

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.

Ummm, uh, where I have I heard that before.

Another way Brian Ross is failing to be in any manner "investigative" is in failing to find out or inform the public that this isn't any kind of exclusive - it is actually old news from
way back in October last year.

Back then, the British media were full of the accusations that improved IED's using motion detectors as triggers were being sent to Iraq from Iran. They were being sent, according to British claims, to the Sadr militia - an organisation that the US has gone out of it's way to placate - but that too isn't mentioned by Ross. Just as now, absolutely no evidence was brought forward to show that the Iranian government were at all involved... and then the kerfuffle suddenly stopped. Why?

Well as I wrote at the time, it was discovered that the new, deadly IED's were using a British design that had been stupidly given to the IRA by British intelligence and then passed around various terror groups the IRA were allied with. Major egg on faces - story dropped.

I am dumbfounded that this administration would do exactly the same thing again, only this time it isn't uranium tubes, it's IED's. And it isn't Iraq, it's Iran.

About the only thing that is different is that the American public is not so compliant as it was back in 2003 in the lead up to the war on Iraqis. I doubt this administration will be able to muster the popular support for another war based on dubious charges.

More likely, though, is that Bush is looking to just send some bombs over there, specific strikes at specific targets. There's no mention of invasion like with Iraq. However, a move of that nature will completely blow up in our faces, and can only be the start of WWIII, for Iran will not sit down and take it. And by forcing Israel and the US's hand, who will both respond to any aggression by Iran with overkill, you will have a major world war erupting, one in which there will certainly be no coalition of the willing on the side of the US and Israel.

At least, that's my dire prediction.