About that "fauxtographed" Iranian weapons cache

Let's say for a second that Charles is wrong and that's an accurate picture of arms that Americans have supplied to Baluchi rebels. Photoshop or not, I think it's a put-up. Like we supply insurgents with little boxes of Winchester 7.62x39 bullets with USA on them. We give them foreign AK-47s (photoshopped out of the picture) but American ammo? When you can get a can of untraceable steel core Eastern-bloc Berdan-primed surplus for probably the same price?

But let's say Charles is wrong. I just don't see what the big deal is. Aren't we supposed to be funding and supporting these guys?

If we're not, I want a congressional subcommitee asking why.

And I want them to ask about those Austrian .50 BMG rifles that are showing up in Iraqi insurgent hands, via Iran. They're attracting a little attention in our press now.

It remains to be confirmed whether the serial numbers on the Steyrs found in Iraq match those from the 2004 sale--if they do, it ought to prompt a top-to-bottom review of all Austrian military contracts. Meantime, is it too much to expect American journalists and Members of Congress to devote as much skepticism to Iran's motives and behavior as they do to Mr. Bush's?

Yeah, I want to hear some reporters ask about this at press conferences. Faster, please!