Anyone can obtain a bomb in wide open Iraq. How does US military know who planted what? with all ?

Question

kinds of bombs and other weapons, who knows for certain what persons or group was responsible?
I'm always reminded of those of the past, who were to quick to blame others, especially when the environment was just right.)


BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iranian-backed militants were behind a bombing that killed 13 Iraqis at a Baghdad pet market, the U.S. military said on Saturday, raising concerns that Shi'ite militias might be switching tactics.

who said the bomb come from Iran?

it isn't always 'logic' that provides the truth. Mosttimes it is when you know someone's lying which some in this administration are so very good at. You know what I mean I'm sure.

Answer 1

a_wood80 logic is somewhat flawed.
The Resistance forces are largely armed with soviet weaponry, do you automatically assume they are backed by Russia?

Answer 2

Before the First Gulf War, Saddam Hussein said that an invasion of his country would produce 'the mother of all battles'. He hid big caches of weapons and explosives all over Iraq, knowing that if the US tried to invade and occupy Iraq it would make it very hard for them. Today Saddam is gone but we are having his 'mother of all battles'.

Bush's dad knew this and wisely decided to leave Saddam in place but pursue a policy of containment. It was working well!

Before stumbling into Iraq, GW Bush was warned about this by every military expert at the Pentagon, plus a big, expensive study by the Rand Corp., plus his own dad! They all said it would take 500,000 troops to stabilize Iraq, and that if we failed to do that quickly, we would lose our chance and our invasion would face an insurgency and a civil war. Bush didn't listen to the experts, instead he listened to a cadre of naive ideologues at the PNAC, people who had never fought in a war and knew nothing of military strategy.

Our troop were spread so thin during the early days of the war, that they watched the Iraqis unload an enormous weapons cache and could do nothing about it. The Iraqis took away hundreds of tons of guns and ammo and bombs in big 18-wheelers while US troops could only watch.

Bush, meanwhile, is just pathologically unable to admit that he's made a mistake, to back off and try something else. All he can do is keep insisting that we are winning in Iraq and wait for Congress or the next president to take the matter out of his hands, so he and his apologists can blame -them- for losing the war.

Answer 3

I think it's a fair point that it's not constructive to jump to conclusions. However, from a technical point of view determining the provenance of any given ordnance is often simple. If a device is found that has serial number from the same series of munitions that Iran used against Iraq in the past, it's origin is obvious.

Answer 4

If the bomb comes from Iran, that means Iran supplied it, which in turn makes whoever planted it Iranian-backed.

Simple logic's a killer, I know.