EFP's are being manufactured in Iraq!!!!!!!

After all that falderol and effort trying to pin the EFP's on Iran, now we find out that EFP's are also being manufactured inside Iraq!!!!

Officials say the EFPs are being machine-tooled in Iran and then smuggled across the border usually in component form. Some senior U.S. military officials, however, say although it has not been previously announced, U.S. forces have been finding an increasing number of the advanced roadside bombs being not just assembled but manufactured in machine shops here. "It (the impact) isn't as clean but they are almost as effective," one official said.

Think about this for a minute. Just two weeks ago, the administration was trying to use these EFP's that "couldn't possibly be manufactured in Iraq" as a pretext for escalating against the Iranians.

Now, we find out that at the time they were making that argument, "senior military officials" and presumably the intelligence people making the case, knew, for a fact, that was a lie!!!!

Happy, Friday Dump.

(Clarification: There do appear to be EFP's both complete and in parts coming from Iran, but that does not justify the intentional effort to say that all of them are coming from Iran.)