Jihadi Du Jour

Pajamas Media today has a wonderful exclusive video and interview about the Iranian weapons flooding Iraq by Richard Miniter. The video is a must watch for all readers both here and at Pajamas Media. It is extremely enlightening and makes the point about Iran quite crystal clear.

Snips from the interview in Baghdad:

Maj. Martin Weber, an explosives expert, is trying to walk through a political mine field with me.

As with an ordinary mine field, you have to be very careful where you put your emphasis. Stress the wrong truth and either the left or the right wants to blow you up.

Here at Camp Victory, a sprawling concrete and razor wire American base that wraps around Baghdad International Airport, Maj. Weber was trying to explain how to negotiate that mine field. On the one side he wanted me to know me that the captured weapons on the table before us were — definitely, no doubt about it, absolutely — from Iran. On the other hand, he avoided drawing the obvious conclusion that Iran is supplying America’s enemies inside Iraq.

That simple and obvious conclusion would anger the Democratic leadership in Congress, much of the press corp, and a large swarth of the antiwar set.

The military has tried twice before to present to the press “overwhelming evidence of Iran’s involvement in the Iraq war, only to be met by hostile skepticism.”

The skepticism basically takes the form of three questions:

) Couldn’t these weapons have been made anywhere?
2) Isn’t it fishy that these weapons were marked in English with American-style dates?
3) Isn’t all of this a ploy to justify a neocon war with Iraq?

Mr. Miniter says, “Maj. Weber is matter of fact. He laughingly admits that he got into EOD because he liked to hear things go BOOM. He’s an old fashioned army officer who abhors politics but loves his profession. He’s not trying to pedal a line, that’s for the guys upstairs. He’s just trying to tell you what he found and what it means.”

This is as I stated above a must read interview and a must see video. It is time that many American people, the Democrats, and the anti-war crowd, period - get their heads out of the sand before there is not one of us left with a head.