General Throws Wrench at Bush’s Iran Propaganda Machine

by tristero

Looks like someone won’t get a Christmas card from Fearless Leader next year. Pity:

A top U.S. general said Tuesday there was no evidence the Iranian government was supplying Iraqi insurgents with highly lethal roadside bombs, apparently contradicting claims by other U.S. military and administration officials.

Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said U.S. forces hunting down militant networks that produced roadside bombs had arrested Iranians and that some of the material used in the devices were made in Iran.

“That does not translate that the Iranian government per se, for sure, is directly involved in doing this,” Pace told reporters in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta. “What it does say is that things made in Iran are being used in Iraq to kill coalition soldiers.”

Now, this didn’t just happen. Something’s afoot and it sounds like the generals are doing everything they possibly can to avoid Bush starting an utterly catastrophic war with Iran.

To say the least, the Bush presidency has provided an occasion for strange bedfellows. An American right wing lunatic, Dinesh D’Sousa, all but comes out and says that bin Laden had the right idea to attack the corrupt, materialistic, America. And the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs may be marching with the rest of us in the reality-based community at the next protest rally.

On second thought, these bedfellows aren’t so strange after all. The kind of fanatical Islamism that bin Laden’s all about is at its heart a totalitarian doctrine, so it stands to reason it would appeal to America’s anti-liberal fascists. And it also stands to reason that a truly professional military commander knows better than to go marching off to war for no fucking reason at all.