Is the Administration charge that Iran is supplying weapons to Iraqi insurgents accurate? Of course not!

For 18 months now, the George W. Bush administration has periodically raised the charge that Iran is supplying anti-coalition forces in Iraq with arms.

But in the past, high administration officials have always admitted that they have no real evidence to support it. Now, they are going further. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told reporters on her current Middle Eastern trip, "I think there is plenty of evidence that there is Iranian involvement with these networks that are making high-explosive IEDs [improvised explosive devices] and that are endangering our troops, and that's going to be dealt with."

However, Rice failed to provide any evidence of official Iranian involvement.

The origins of the theme of Iranian complicity strongly suggest that it was a propaganda line aimed at reducing the Bush administration's acute embarrassment at its inability to stop the growing death toll of U.S. troops from shaped charges fired at armoured vehicles by Sunni insurgents.

The Bush administration is playing the same old song and expecting us to all get up and dance to it again like we did in 2001. But this time we have a Democrat led Congress and Americans who are pissed off about being lied to about Iraq. There is no way that we are going to allow this group of idiots to justify an attack on Iran.

Not this time Chimpy!