Scott Horton
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So that's kind of odd, but okay.
And based on that claim, they went to war against Muqtada al-Sadr, who was the least Iranian-tied of the three major pillars of the Shiite United Iraqi Alliance.
Dawa and Skiri had been living in Iran for 20 years.
At this time, they attacked him and actually ended up chasing him into Iran, making him closer to Iran.
And then where he went to school and got a higher religious rank, a little bit of blowback for you there.
But again, the whole war was being fought for him and for this United Iraqi Alliance who had written the constitution and won the elections and all that.
But so as part of this, they were building the narrative.
So long as they're attacking the Shiites in Sadr City in East Baghdad and down in Najaf and they're fighting back, then they say that every time a Shiite sets off a bomb, it's an Iranian bomb.
It's not just an IED, improvised explosive device.
It's an EFP, explosively formed penetrator.
And you're just supposed to believe.
that they all come from Iran.
And as I show in enough already, I have, I guess it's like seven or eight different sources from American media where they were there in Iraq and found, you know, embedded with us troops and found these machine shops in Iraq where these bombs were being made in Iraq by Iraqis happened over and over and over again.
And they were going to do a big press conference and prove that they were coming from Iran.
And then the reporters started gathering around the pile of material.
And they said the parts, some of the parts that made in Haditha or made in UAE on them and things like this, showing that they had not come from Iran at all.
And then they ended up closing down the press conference.
And the National Security Advisor, Stephen Hadley, admitted, yeah, well, the evidence wasn't quite there for that.