U.S. officials say roadside bomb attacks against American forces in Iraq have become much more deadly as more and more of the Iran-designed and Iran-produced bombs have been smuggled in from the country since last October.

“I think the evidence is strong that the Iranian government is making these IEDs, and the Iranian government is sending them across the border and they are killing U.S. troops once they get there,” says Richard Clarke, former White House counterterrorism chief and an ABC News consultant. “I think it’s very hard to escape the conclusion that, in all probability, the Iranian government is knowingly killing U.S. troops.”

U.S. intelligence officials say Iran is using the bombs as a way to drive up U.S. casualties in Iraq but without provoking a direct confrontation.

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Ah, those dasterdly Jews are at it again! Too bad Ol’ Shickelgruber didn’t finish them off back in the ’40s.

- Kennedrunk, Pelosi, Reid, Dean, and alGore love to use those phrases in their screech fests, and aside from all of the unhinged “hate Bush” nattering and feckless fabrications, those are the ones that will come back to bite them the hardest in 2006 and 2008.

- All of these partisan hacks seem to continually forget nothing angers an American more than being told what he/she thinks, and worst when its an outright lie. The face of a once proud party in the throes of desperate tactics in order to regain power.

- You live by the lie, you die by the lie.

- Bang

I think Murtha is turning out to be the Jimmy Carter of Senators…

Murtha calling an active duty MARINE general a liar on national TV, and still putting forth inaccurate and wrong facts about the war.

SCHIEFFER: Now I’m going to make sure I understand. I mean, I think I understand what you’re saying, but you’re talking about a Marine and here you are an ex-Marine. This is a military man. This is not—this is not somebody, some civilian out there at the Pentagon. You’re saying you no longer believe what Marine General Peter Pace says when he says he thinks things are going well.

Rep. MURTHA: That’s exactly right. Why would I believe him with all the misstatements and mischaracterizations they’ve made over the last two years? And the public is way ahead of what’s going on in Washington. They no longer believe. The troops themselves, 70 percent of the troops said, `We want to come home within a year.’ The only solution to this is redeploy. Let me tell you, the only people who want us in Iraq is Iran and al-Qaeda….

Courtesy of Expose the Left

Quote from Powerline:

It’s rather remarkable that a sitting United States Congressman would play so fast and loose with the facts, especially in the context of accusing the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of being a liar. Pretty much every “fact” that Murtha hysterically tossed out is wrong.

Gateway Pundit says Murtha spit out 9 lies in 90 seconds…

1.) There’s no al-Qaeda connection!…

Truth- THE FORMER IRAQI REGIME OF Saddam Hussein trained thousands of radical Islamic terrorists from the region at camps in Iraq over the four years immediately preceding the U.S. invasion.

2.) We’ve made no progress at all.

Truth: Murtha has repeated this lie so often. See USAID-Iraq

3.) Sixty percent unemployment.

Truth- Try 18 to 28 percent. (2/28/06)

4.) The Iraqis want us out of there.

Truth- It’s not even a top three concern of Iraqis, neither is security.

5.) Eighty percent of the Iraqis want us out of there.
(Murtha continues to take his numbers from one bogus isolated poll.)

6.) But they’re in a situation where they’re caught in a civil war.

Truth- “You Don’t Say!”

Iraqi police deaths, Iraqi civilian deaths, and US military deaths were down in February, Murtha’s civil war month.

7.) So I don’t believe the secretary…We’re caught in a civil war.

Truth- “Dude, Where’s my Civil War?”

8.) Water production, only 30% of people are getting water.

Truth- USAID has restored water treatment to 4 million urban Iraqis and sewage treatment to 4.4 million.

9.) We’ve lost almost 20,000 people in this war, if you count the casualties and the people who’ve been killed in the three years.

Truth- It will be three years of War in Iraq this month. The US has lost 2,300 brave men and women in the war. This is historically the lowest number of fatalities the US has seen in any of its major wars. Therefore, look for democrats like Murtha to taint the outstanding job of our military men and women by including casualties in their body counts, a sinister way to slant the truth.

Oh,… And, here is one for Bob Schieffer on Murtha- “He was a hawk on Iraq.”

Truth- Murtha has spoken out consistently against the Iraq War.

Read the rest of it here.

Glenn Reynolds has more on this also.

Powerline’s writeup on Murtha’s meltdown

I still say the mosque bombing was work of Syrian and/or Iranian agents. It helps both Syria and Iran to have Iraq in turmoil.

If Iran can cause enough problems and big enough news like a civil war, then all eyes will be off them and thier nuclear ambitions.

Most of the trouble lately has been coming from Iran’s pawn, Al Sadr, who should have been exterminated 2 years ago. Once again, we’re paying the price for pussy footing around and not slamming the iron fist down when we should have.

The terrorists are playing a tight game, they do more and more extreme and violent attacks, but it’s a gamble as to whether they will make the collective Democrats and liberal whiners wet their pants enough for us to pull out before the rest of the Iraqi’s get so pissed over it all that they get together and exterminate the insurgents themselves. They certainly aren’t winning hearts and minds among the local population, the more of this kind f attack they do, the more the general population turns on them and turns them in. Given our history, I think they feel we will bail before the Iraqi’s get their kit together, and I’m not sure they’re wrong sadly.

Support the troops and let them finish the mission they are there for.

You don’t leave right in the middle of something and do a half-assed job.

The plan was as we get more of the Iraqis trained and in place the more we can start withdrawing our troops.

If I remember it right, it was 3 Iraqi battalions will allow 1 US battalion to withdraw and come home.

Beleive it or not, there was and still is a plan for withdrawl of hte troops. No matter how much the papers keep trying to publish wrong dates and information on withdrawl.

There are at least two sides to every story, and if you haven’t yet read Dude, Where’s My Civil War? by Ralph Peters (New York Post, March 5, 2006), you’re missing a big part of the current story in Iraq. Ralph Peters has been riding in Baghdad with…