Heres an update to the Hezbollah in Iraq story, especially for those who want harder proof of the Iran nexus.
A few days ago, the new chief spokesman for multi-national forces in Iraq held a press conference on the heels of the Associated Press and CNN stories on the capture of a key Hezbollah special operations commander in Iraq who provided proof of Irans complicity in the deaths of American troops.
Defense Tech wanted to bring our readers attention to some of the documents and transcripts provided by MNF-I that bolster their claim. Any Arab speakers out there, please give the docs a once-over and see if they are indeed what U.S. commanders say they are…
View the entire MNF-I brief HERE
– Christian
As b noted, this is simply repeating the claims made by a military spokesman without any independent evidence.
All very well, but by the same token you’d have top believe iranian claims about the British Navy inading their waters.
“How can anyone doubt that Iran us up to no good in Iraq..?” — quite easily. We still haven;t seen evidence that Iran is behind the equipping or insurgents etc.
It’s interesting to see the crazies who now frequent the DefenseTech comments.
Aren’t there already nutjob truther websites specifically designed for these people? I guess they imagine they are trying to counter the militant nationalism of sites like DefenseTech, but I’m no expert on delusional thinking.
Posts like this are the reason all the readership of this blog went over to wired.com
stop being part of the d.c. echo chamber.
you do a disservice to our counterterrorism efforts.
Is the casual observer of military and political affairs in the US so caught up in partisan bumbersticker assertions and gotcha journalism that he/she cannot view any subject without reflexive hysteria? In short: unlike most places in the world, your government is not TRYING to lie to you. They may get stuff wrong, emphasize the wrong things etc. but they aren’t fabricating evidence to intentionally mislead the American people. By all means question the evidence, test assertions and so forth but let’s leave the goofy conspiracy theories to Rosie O’Donnel shall we?
In short: unlike most places in the world, your government is not TRYING to lie to you. They may get stuff wrong, emphasize the wrong things etc. but they aren’t fabricating evidence to intentionally mislead the American people.
To be honest, I don’t give a damn whether the misinformation is deliberate or accidental. It’s happening, though, isn’t it (WMDs, for example)? And so, when I see a story entirely sourced to a MNF-I spokesman, I get suspicious. Single source is never your friend — neither in journalism nor in intelligence.
On the credibility of American military press releases (available at http://www.examiner.com/a-815250~U_S__eagerness_shows_in_dismantling_al_Qaeda.html):
“The U.S. command in Baghdad this week ballyhooed the killing of a key al Qaeda leader but later admitted that the military had declared him dead a year ago.
A military spokesman acknowledged the mistake after it was called to his attention by The Examiner. He said public affairs officers will be more careful in announcing significant kills.
The incident shows the eagerness of the command to show progress in dismantling al Qaeda at a time when Democrats and some Republicans are pressing President Bush to withdraw troops from Iraq. Army Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander, has declared al Qaeda enemy No. 1 in Iraq.
Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner began his Monday news conference with a list of top insurgents either killed or captured in recent operations. He said they had been eliminated “in the past few weeks” and were “recent results.“
Christian regularly passes on, verbatim, Pentagon twaddle. He’s a shill, a stenographer. He’s trashed any claim to trust he might have once had. Don’t trust him. It speaks volumes that an unhinged ignoramus like Max, here, is pretty much the only person who believes him.
By the way, the example I cited sure looks like an instance where my government, or at least important parts of it, very definitely DID try to lie to me. And this is just a piddling example.
I never said that I swallow whole everything that the government says, did I? I was only trying to make the point that trying to make the government into a liar every time their lips are moving is going overboard. You always have to take anything that is said by anyone, especially by those on the political left, with a grain of salt and a lot of other information to balance it all out. Trying to set up anyone who listens to the word of a government spokesman as a gullible lemming is the tactic of those with a leftist political axe to grind while a Republican is in the White House. Now if Hillary Clinton or one of your favorite Dems were president, would you have the same degree of skepticism of the word of the government?
Actually I think he meant ME, Max when sglover said–
“Don’t trust him. It speaks volumes that an unhinged ignoramus like Max, here, is pretty much the only person who believes him.“
Actually I am very happy the Christian doesn’t edit or interpret what MNF sends out-unlike THE REST of the media. Which “interpets” military statments looking for blood to boost ratings or readership. As for unhinged-only you Mr Glover and Grandjester seem to be unhinged.
As for the military guys-I am happy they are doing their best to get us info in a rough situation. I know people in Iraq, am a veteran of the war and trust them, Christian and our military — FAR– FAR-FAR more than I trust you.
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