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Scott Horton

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Part Of The Problem
Scott Horton on Iran

So that's kind of odd, but okay.

Part Of The Problem
Scott Horton on Iran

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.

Part Of The Problem
Scott Horton on Iran

Dawa and Skiri had been living in Iran for 20 years.

Part Of The Problem
Scott Horton on Iran

Sadr had stayed.

Part Of The Problem
Scott Horton on Iran

At this time, they attacked him and actually ended up chasing him into Iran, making him closer to Iran.

Part Of The Problem
Scott Horton on Iran

And then where he went to school and got a higher religious rank, a little bit of blowback for you there.

Part Of The Problem
Scott Horton on Iran

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.

Part Of The Problem
Scott Horton on Iran

But so as part of this, they were building the narrative.

Part Of The Problem
Scott Horton on Iran

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.

Part Of The Problem
Scott Horton on Iran

It's not just an IED, improvised explosive device.

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Scott Horton on Iran

It's an EFP, explosively formed penetrator.

Part Of The Problem
Scott Horton on Iran

And you're just supposed to believe.

Part Of The Problem
Scott Horton on Iran

that they all come from Iran.

Part Of The Problem
Scott Horton on Iran

Now it's not true.

Part Of The Problem
Scott Horton on 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.

Part Of The Problem
Scott Horton on Iran

And they were going to do a big press conference and prove that they were coming from Iran.

Part Of The Problem
Scott Horton on Iran

And then the reporters started gathering around the pile of material.

Part Of The Problem
Scott Horton on Iran

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.

Part Of The Problem
Scott Horton on Iran

And then they ended up closing down the press conference.

Part Of The Problem
Scott Horton on Iran

And the National Security Advisor, Stephen Hadley, admitted, yeah, well, the evidence wasn't quite there for that.