The Wall Street Journal discusses a rather inconvenient fact uncovered by the US in Iraq (subs req):

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- An American military raid in southern Iraq uncovered a makeshift factory used to construct advanced roadside bombs that the U.S. had thought were made only in Iran. The find raises fears that Shiite Muslim insurgents across Iraq may be able to manufacture large quantities of such weapons on their own. The Saturday raid in the small town of Jedidah marked the first time U.S. forces found evidence that militants inside Iraq are assembling "explosively formed penetrators," or EFPs, which can punch through the armored shells of U.S. military vehicles.

Readers might remember that CENTCOM and MNF-I put on a great dog-and-pony show two weeks ago, complete with anonymous briefers and alleged photographic “proof” that the evil Iranians are supplying IEDs enhanced as EFPs.

This is the EFP Iran produces, and these are the specifications.

I’m not an expert on this sort of weapon, but it looks fairly professional to me.

This is what the USG was pretending came from Iran.

Looks just like something turned out in someone’s garage.

I mention this again because we are about to be deluged with yet another round of manufactured evidence preposterous claims about Iranian military meddling in Iraq.

It’s not really surprising the WSJ reports stories like this because the news pages are created in an entirely different environment than the editorial pages. Accepting the premise that “opinion makers” only read the WSJ editorial page and business sections, that is where the ideological emphasis is placed.

Kudos to the paper’s news department, which still understands about reality.