{"id":3787,"date":"2007-08-12T10:45:29","date_gmt":"2007-08-12T17:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/12\/efps-are-made-in-iraq-by-iraqis\/"},"modified":"2007-08-12T16:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-12T23:07:00","slug":"efps-are-made-in-iraq-by-iraqis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/12\/efps-are-made-in-iraq-by-iraqis\/","title":{"rendered":"EFPs are Made in Iraq by Iraqis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay folks, this one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s simple: Among Shia in Iraq<\/a>, the U.S. backs the same folks as the Iranians do<\/a>: The Da\u00e2\u20ac\u2122wa Party and the Supreme Islamic Council.<\/p>\n

The Shi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ites who are fighting our guys are nationalists<\/a>, and so are somewhat down with the Sunni Arab nationalists and opposed<\/em> to Iran.<\/p>\n

Enter Michael R. Gordon<\/a> of the New York Times, <\/em>who keeps<\/a> pushing<\/a> (without providing evidence) the Vice-President\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/a> propaganda<\/a> that the new, improved EFP bombs<\/a> must<\/em> be coming from Iran.<\/p>\n

For those who listen to Antiwar Radio, you know I refute this lie every single day, citing CSM and Reuters\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 reports<\/a> that an EFP factory was found in Iraq in April by troops during \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Operation Black Eagle,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d according to Army Spokesman Lt. Col Scott Bleichwehl.<\/p>\n

Journalist Gareth Porter, whom I often interview, has written extensively<\/a> on this matter.<\/p>\n

Andrew Cockburn took an axe to the lies in this Los Angeles<\/em> Times <\/em>article<\/a> back in February. NBC News<\/a> and Wired<\/em><\/a> have also run articles casting doubt on the alleged Iranian origin of the bombs. Allisa J. Rubin in the New York Times<\/em><\/a> discusses the discovery of an EFP factory in Iraq (Shhhh! Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tell Michael R. Gordon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s editor!) and even the Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> has spoken truth to the propaganda.<\/p>\n

And so why is this such a big deal?<\/p>\n

Well, because Dick Cheney is trying to start a war with Iran<\/a> and since the president has admitted that Iran does not<\/em> have a nuclear weapons program<\/a>, the War Party has had to switch gears. Now the excuse for bombing Iran<\/a> is that they are bombing our guys in Iraq<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The proof? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s right there, even <\/em>in the New York Times.<\/em><\/p>\n

Update: Philip Giraldi debunked<\/a> Cheney-Gordon’s claims too.<\/p>\n

(Comments welcome at Stress<\/a><\/em>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay folks, this one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s simple: Among Shia in Iraq, the U.S. backs the same folks as the Iranians do: The Da\u00e2\u20ac\u2122wa Party and the Supreme Islamic Council. The Shi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ites who are fighting our guys are nationalists, and so are somewhat down with the Sunni Arab nationalists and opposed to Iran. Enter Michael R. Gordon of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3787"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}