Anybody but Iran?

From The New York Times:

BAGHDAD, Feb. 25 — A raid on a Shiite weapons cache in the southern city of Hilla one week ago is providing what American officials call the best evidence yet that the deadliest roadside bombs in Iraq are manufactured in Iran, but critics contend that the forensic case remains circumstantial and inferential.

The new evidence includes infrared sensors, electronic triggering devices and information about plastic explosives used in bombs that the Americans say lead back to Iran. The explosive material, triggering devices, other components and the method of assembly all produce weapons with an Iranian signature that has never been found outside Iraq or southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah is believed to have used weapons supplied by Iran, the Americans say.

But critics assert that nearly all the bomb components could have been produced in Iraq or somewhere else in the region. Even if the evidence were to establish that Iran is the source, they add, that does not necessarily mean that the Iranian leadership is responsible.

"Even if the evidence were to establish that Iran is the source, they add, that does not necessarily mean that the Iranian leadership is responsible." Yes, people in totalitarian nations like Iran where disobedience to the rulers earns one a not necessarily quick but always unpleasant death are highly prone to go freelancing in the area of foreign policy. Especially when that freelancing could bring about a devastating military strike from a nation as powerful as the United States.

I find it amazing that people who upon seeing a photograph of Lindy England leading a naked Iraqi terrorist around on a leash could conceive of no other reason for her to act this way other than the personal orders of George W Bush as relayed to her personally by Donald Rumsfeld now cannot make their minds grasp the possibility that Iran, the world's foremost sponsor of Shiite Muslim terrorism just might be aiding the Shiite Muslim terrorists in Iraq.