While everybody in the Administration is busy hawking the prospect of War with Iran, there's been some investigative work underway that seems to cut deeply into one of the main validations for action against Iran.
Is Bush Lying about Iran and EFP's -- Again?
Since earlier this year, Bush administration officials and Pentagon spokespersons in Iraq and elsewhere have been claiming that Iran is the source of the explosively formed penetrators, or EFP's, which have been used in Iraq to penetrate the armor of US military vehicles and kill American soldiers. And despite evidence to the contrary that these weapons are in fact being manufactured in Iraq, they have continued to assert that Iran is the source of these weapons. Indeed, this charge that Iran's Revolutionary Guards, has been providing EFP's to Iraqis, was [...]
Now, let's update the cost of all this fun and frivolity:
After I posted about the CBO’s estimation that the occupation in Iraq may end up costing the U.S. $2.4Trillion, I received this link from a C&Ler: "Using the actual size of a dollar bill, this is how large a stack of $9 million would be: And using the same scale, this is $191 Billion, [...]
Tags: Iran, Explosively Formed Penetrators, EFP's
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