General Pace Refutes the So-called Iran Dossier Evidence

I have the feeling that General Peter Pace's days are numbered, especially now that he's come out against the so-called evidence against Iran that was presented on Sunday in that shady, anonymous briefing.

Via VOA News:

The top American military officer, General Peter Pace, declined Monday to endorse the conclusions of U.S. military officers in Baghdad, who told reporters on Sunday that the Iranian government is providing high-powered roadside bombs to insurgents in Iraq. General Pace made his comments during a visit to Australia, and VOA's Al Pessin reports from Canberra.

General Pace said he was not aware of the Baghdad briefing, and that he could not, from his own knowledge, repeat the assertion made there that the elite Quds brigade of Iran's Republican Guard force is providing bomb-making kits to Iraqi Shiite insurgents.

"We know that the explosively formed projectiles are manufactured in Iran. What I would not say is that the Iranian government, per se [specifically], knows about this," he said. "It is clear that Iranians are involved, and it's clear that materials from Iran are involved, but I would not say by what I know that the Iranian government clearly knows or is complicit."

And, if the Bush administration cannot prove that the Iranian government is involved, it has no legal basis for attacking or invading the country - not that that's ever stopped them before though.

Related: TPMmuckraker has the Power Point presentation about the so-called dossier given to reporters on Sunday. Pretty thin stuff.