The Bush Administration has made a well-known stink over the alleged involvement of the Iranians in the killing of American soldiers in Iraq through the use of Iranian manufactured roadside bombs.
Yet in the last few weeks, the US military has published statistics showing that at least half of the suicide bombers in Iraq that wound, maim and murder our troops come from that great US ally, Saudi Arabia. Which raises the question -- why does the US media not give more attention to this fact -- or, furthermore, to the question of whom is providing the overall support to the main body of the Sunni insurgents in Iraq whom have proven to be so recklessly violent in their indiscriminate slaughter of Shiites, Kurds and yes American soldiers?
Most observers conclude that the bulk of the funding for these Sunni combatants is coming from sympathizers in neighboring Sunni nations like Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and Egypt. Why do we not hear more about this situation? And why is the US government not doing more to condemn those states for permitting such financing to continue?
The most likely reason is that the Bush Administration wants the American media to concentrate all of its ire on Iran in order to lay the grounds for an eventual US air assault on that nation sometime before Bush's term in office ends and meantime does not wish to alienate America's so-called "allies" in the region.
So Washington simply overlooks -- or denies -- the obvious and does so with the tacit concurrence of the American media.
