Iran might be many things, but stupid it is not. Assassinating an Ambassador is just plain stupid in its pointlessness.

Also, why would cartel killers, well acquainted with offing the competition in Mexico, have any particular expertise in spy vs spy bullshit in DC? They wouldn’t. Though it would be politically expedient to blame Mexico as well.

The Obomber regime is just trying to distract from its Gun Running scandal and the #occupyAmerica movement by offering the Dogs of War another profit-maker.

Not defending ex-President GHW Bush but Saddam Hussein actually did have gas weapons at one time as he utilized them against an entire village of Kurds.

1. Yes, and we have WMDs here in the USA as well.  The question was not, “has Saddam Hussein ever been in possession of WMDs?”  The question was “is Saddam Hussein currently in possession of WMDs?” (in 2002)  There is no real evidence that the answer was anything but “no.”

2. The Bush administration never explicitly said “nuclear weapons” but that’s the case they were trying to make by pushing the fictions about yellow cake uranium and aluminum tubes for centrifuges.  Gas is only arguably a WMD — or more precisely, only some kinds of gases are inarguably WMDs — and the Bush administration wasn’t counting on Americans getting really scared about Hussein using borderline conventional weapons with very limited ranges.

The German government has been trying to return former East German citizen’s Stasi files to them.  One woman who was a political agitator in East Germany in the 80′s got her file and found that something she had always suspected but had never been sure about was true: the East German secret police had been slashing the tires on her baby’s carriage.

Why would they do something so pointless and vindictive and ridiculous?  Simple.  Because when the woman whispered to any sort of confidant, “I think the Stasi is slashing the tires on my baby’s carriage,” she would look crazy.  The alternative: a vague, lingering feel of dread and persecution that you can’t tell anyone about (for fear of looking crazy).

Some conspiracy theories are paranoid delusions.  But by that very light, the best way to get away with a conspiracy is to make it seem like a paranoid delusion. 

After all, extraordinary claims … you know the rest.

Precedent.

WMD.

Still waiting for a plausible explanation for the slaughter of over 150,000 innocents.

Too many known unknowns and unknown unknowns.

To first order…  i don’t like it. 

I have tons, dude, but unfortunately it’s Double Top Secret. Sorry, but I’m sure you understand. Trust me, it’s airtight!

It’s simply one way to establish a double-standard.

Fair warning; valid evidence does not include your NRA ‘spidey senses’ about that evil, fascist obama who’s going to take all your guns away and steal all the government’s money through bad Solyndra loans.  After all, extraordinary claims … you know the rest.

I find it actually pretty believable.  Despite the rabid anti-immigrant rhetoric out of places like Arizona, it is true that Mexican drug gangs do have people here in the states in larger numbers than can be considered trivial, and using a group not normally associated with you to perform an attack is actually not unheard of.  The US has done it before, and so have the British.  I would deeply shocked, if the Iranians had not thought to do so as well.  Also as a last point, the Iranians and the Saudi really don’t like each other so attacking Saudi’s on US soil is really the dick slap the Iranians would really love to pull.  Could it be fake?  Yes, but there is enough meat there to make me lean towards believing it.  

I do completely believe, that the administration revealed all the info on it to distract from their other problems.  If things were going more smoothly, they might have just kept it a secret. If you don’t have too, don’t let your opponent how you beat them after all. 

The other piquant bit about this is that, given recent events, the US Government looks a little bit flouncy, denouncing attempts by a government to kill people from another country in a third country. The “it’s OK if WE do it, really” argument is, to be frank, wearing a trifle thin.

* N.B. – not implying Venustiano Carranza = drug kingpin! Or that Iran = the Kaiserreich!

Yeah, “scandals” like an actual attempt to trace firearms from the US to Mexico…

When you don’t bother to follow up on what happens to the firearms, it’s not called ‘tracing’, it’s called ‘abetting’.

You’re surprised that an international drug cartel that moves plenty of merchandise into the US would have people in the US, and that at least some of these people, known to kill people for the lulz, would also be willing to kill for money?

I have no idea, honestly. I think it’s probably shit. I just think it’s fun to read a Steve Buscemi line with a Peter Lorre voice, or even a Ren Höek voice.

The reason I think it’s shit shit is that drug empires do not let ANYTHING get in the way of business, and getting involved in political assassinations for hire is most definitely bad for business, and certainly pointless compared to the drug money.

It’s a surreal busywork project.

if all of this business is real, then there are Zetas or whatever just floating around inside the United States, waiting to be hired by miscreant mullahs to just, you know, assassinate dudes inside our borders? The drug cartels have operatives in the US who can be hired to bump people off at the behest of hostile foreign nation-states?

Not necessarily, but the Iranian government apparently believes so.