There is nearly zero reporting about what the Saudis are funneling into Iraq, and who is on the receiving end of their cash and supplies.

We are arguing with teeth bared about Iraq, but I often get the feeling that we have only a key-hole view of what all goes on there.

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Seriously, dunno if I’ve been right, I don’t think we already have seen all the facts. One way or the other, no big brouhaha, pls.

Feel free to give Gray a medal with my blessing. Just make sure you invite me to the ceremony.

It’s a tad premature to give Gray a medal.

There are many — repeat, many — versions of EFGs, and just because the ones the Pentagon put on display don’t look like the one in the photo above doesn’t really say anything.

Iran is providing EFGs that are killing and dismembering Americans. The big point is that EFGs almost certainly also are being cranked out at machine shops in Iraq that have the tools to make them.

You indirectly make a good point. Most of the MSM sleepwalked through the early years of the war — taking at face value the White House’s pronouncements — until things were so obviously so out of whack that there finally were stories calling into question the rose-colored outlook.

While there seems to be a bit more effort to question the administration’s pronouncements about Iran, the MSM is again lagging behind bloggers. I give the MSM some leeway on this — so many stories, so many assertions, so few reporters and so little time.

But while MSM coverage today is not as slavishly one-sided as it was earlier in the war, the level of skepticism about Iran claims is nowhere near as high as it should be. There seems to be little williness or ability to do the math, as Mr. Bell appropriately quotes Jack Grant as having said.

Indeed! But isn’t it the MSM’s job to do that? Thank God for the bloggers taking up the task!

Talk about cutting through the BS!

I think this kind of analysis is desperately needed. I would expect that *many* things are fueling the insurgency at various levels, and in particular there are probably *many* sources for IEDs and their raw materials. While *any* death from Iranian supplied IEDs is a bad thing, the correct focus of policy and discussion must at least address the relative magnitude and effectiveness of each source, and the relative likelihood of success in interving against that source and the improvement in safety resulting from that intervention.