Scott Horton

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.

And this was after months and months.

Michael Gordon was part of this conspiracy with Dick Cheney and David Petraeus.

And he's from the New York Times.

He's not the Wall Street Journal.

He was the co-author with Judith Miller of all of those stories about Saddam seeking A-bomb parts.

He wants to spin centrifuges and enrich uranium and all this stuff.

Michael Gordon was co-author on all those.

She got crucified.

He got promoted.

And anyway, so here he is in 07 pushing this lie about the EFPs.

And they were trying to do this as a drumbeat to get Bush to attack Iran.

Actually, Dave, it was funny because I remember this.

We joked about it at the time that they sort of forgot all about Iran's illicit secret nuclear weapons program for like half a year or more because now it's all about these EFPs.

And since they're lying and it's a matter of just changing narratives, the truth doesn't keep, you know, the thing they used to say doesn't keep coming up because it's not really there.

You know what I mean?

Anyway, but as you mentioned, the Pentagon had told Bush in January of 07, they said, listen, we will do the search.

No problem, Mr. President, but we don't want to go to Iran.