Shoot the Breeze Friday

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   rba on July 13, 2007 at 10:50 am

   Apologies if this has been covered:
   Chris Hedges & Laila Al-Arian/theNation:  The Other War:  Iraq Vets Bear Witness.

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     Steven D on July 13, 2007 at 11:04 am

     It’s all new to me.

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   boran2 on July 13, 2007 at 12:06 pm

   You missed the nude photos of BooMan and Clammyc.

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   hass on July 13, 2007 at 12:24 pm

   About those EFPs that Iran is sending Iraq to murder US soldiers:

   “Just last week, the New York Times reported that in the town of Diwaniya, ‘American and Iraqi forces uncovered an assembly area for the powerful roadside bombs known as explosively formed projectiles, the statement said. Four bombs were already assembled, it added, and others were in various stages of being put together.’

   What’s more, in February Andrew Cockburn wrote in the Los Angeles Times that back in November, ‘U.S. troops raiding a Baghdad machine shop came across a pile of copper disks, 5 inches in diameter, stamped out as part of what was clearly an ongoing order. This ominous discovery, unreported until now, makes it clear that Iraqi insurgents have no need to rely on Iran as the source of EFPs.’

   And that’s not all. The Wall Street Journal reported in February that another EFP ‘factory’ was discovered in southern Iraq, and around the same time the New York Times threw some water on the U.S. military’s claims that the bombs were coming exclusively from Iran, when a cache of EFP materials was found in Baghdad–all marked with stamps from countries around the Middle East, but not Iran.”

   http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/get_the_facts_straight_on_iran.php