CNN is on record today with enabling yet another piece of stupid Bu$h malAdministration propaganda.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iran is training Iraqi insurgents to assemble weapons, the U.S. military said Wednesday, while also providing some intelligence support for Sunni groups in Iraq.

U.S. military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell also told reporters that two militants who were recently detained said they had received training in Syria.

The announcement is the latest in U.S. assertions that insurgents in Iraq use many weapons that originate in the neighboring Shiite nation of Iran.

The developments reflect the Bush administration's concern about Iran and Syria's involvement in the Iraqi war.

Shiites and Sunnis are locked in fierce sectarian battle throughout Iraq. Caldwell did not discuss the nature of Iranian support for Sunni groups.

This is astounding. I thought we’d driven a stake through the heart of this lie more than a month ago.

In Iraq, the “insurgents” “resistance” “Ba’athist dead enders” and “al Quaeda” are all Sunni. The idea of Shiite Iran supplying arms to them, or training them in using the arms is about as likely as a group of black slaves being freed in 1862 and enlisted into the 8th Alabama Infantry regiment.

Oh. Wait.

"We know that they are being in fact manufactured and smuggled into this country, and we know that training does go on in Iran for people to learn how to assemble them and how to employ them," Caldwell said. "We know that training has gone on as recently as this past month from detainees' debriefs."

He said Shiite extremists are being trained inside Iran and said the use of such weapons requires "very skilled training." [emph added]

But…but…but… I thought he said the Iranians are training Sunnis?

"There has been training on specialized weapons that are used here in Iraq. And then we do know they receive, also, training on ... what we call a more complex kind of attack, where we see multiple types of engagements being used from an explosion to small-arms fire, to being done in multiple places," Caldwell said.

That would probably be the training the “Ba’athist dead enders” invariably cashiered officers of the Iraqi Army (thanks very much, Mr Bremer) have been giving to their Sunni brothers. That's the army that fought Iran for eight years and, according to some estimates, killed one million Iranians.

I can see why Iran would be eager to assist that group, can't you?

Munitions from Iran were found in a black Mercedes sedan in Baghdad's Jihad neighborhood on Tuesday after a tip from a civilian, he said. An Iranian-made rocket was found in the back seat and Iranian weapons were found in the trunk and around a nearby house, Caldwell said.

Images of the weapons found were shown to reporters.

Well, that settles it for me. If I was shown photographs of weapons supposedly made in Iran, allegedly found in a Mercedes in a Sunni district of Baghdad, I’d automatically conclude that the evil Iranians were distributing weapons to the Sunnis.

Wouldn’t you?

UPDATE: IraqSlogger covers the story, obtains a genuine photo of seized Iranian munitions. Observers cannot understand why a meting of minds between the US and Iran is so difficult, since they apparently speak English, just like us.