Let me get this straight. They arrest 5 Iranians in Iraq. They claim they were illegally arming insurgents who want to kill U.S. troops. They claim they had maps, photos, videos and documents. Then they let three of them go. Sounds like bullshit to me. More of the kind of bullshit we heard when they lied and did whatever they had to to link Iraq to 9/11 so they could invade. Now they want to link Iran to Iraq so we can invade Iran. Maybe I’m wrong to be so cynical, but hey……this administration and their endless thirst for power, their enormous military budget and desire to continue to build a military empire has caused me to be.

BAGHDAD: The U.S. military said it had credible evidence linking Iranians and their Iraqi associates, detained here in raids last week, to criminal activities, including attacks against U.S. forces. Evidence also emerged that some of the detainees were involved in shipments of weapons to illegal armed groups in Iraq.

In its first official confirmation of the raids last week, the U.S. military said Tuesday that it had confiscated maps, videos, photographs and documents in one of the raids on a site in Baghdad. The military confirmed the arrests of five Iranians and said that three of them had since been released.

The Bush administration has described the two Iranians still being held late Tuesday night as senior military officials. Major General William Caldwell, the chief spokesman for the U.S. command, said that the military, in the raid, had “gathered specific intelligence from highly credible sources that linked individuals and locations with criminal activities against Iraqi civilians, security forces and coalition force personnel.”

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