From Information Clearing House
By Simon Floth

On July 11 this year congress loaded and pointed a gun at Iran in the form of Lieberman’s amendment to the Defense Authorization act (S.AMDT.2073, amending H.R.1585 and S.AMDT.2011). That was more than six weeks ago, yet the most pivotal feature of the amendment, and indeed of history in the making, has gone entirely unremarked: It is a demonstrable non-sequitur.

Claiming that Iran is complicit in the murder of US soldiers, the amendment is a crucial link in an unrolling geopolicital chain of events. Yet it depends entirely on a fallacious inference smuggled under sobering rhetoric. The crux is quoted for reference below from points a17 to b2.

(Prior points accuse Iran of a direct or indirect involvement in neighboring and fellow Shia-dominated Iraq to an extent dwarfed by analogous actions of the US in any war-torn Latin American country.)

“(17) On January 20, 2007, a sophisticated attack was launched by insurgents at the Karbala Provincial Joint Coordination Center in Iraq, resulting in the murder of five American soldiers, four of whom were first abducted.

(18) On April 26, 2007, General Petraeus stated that the so-called Qazali network was responsible for the attack on the Karbala Provincial Joint Coordination Center and that “there’s no question that the Qazali network is directly connected to the Iranian Qods force [and has] received money, training, arms, ammunition, and at some points in time even advice and assistance and direction”.

(19) On July 2, 2007, Brigadier General Bergner stated that the United States Armed Forces possesses documentary evidence that the Qods Force had developed detailed information on the United States position at the Karbala Provincial Joint Coordination Center “regarding our soldiers’ activities, shift changes, and defenses, and this information was shared with the attackers”.

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