Blame anyone but the Iranians

I was watching the 7.30 report on the ABC a week or so after the ASLAV got shot up and burnt out in Iraq.

The poor reporter was having a nasty time. The ASLAV had clearly been hit by a sophisticated anti-armour charge that had chopped right through the armour and set the fuel lines on fire, and the only people that have that technology in the neighbourhood are the Iranians. He knew that the Iranians were behind it, but did everything he could to avoid blaming them.

I can't see why he had such a big problem with calling a spade a spade. If they did it, finger the bastards.

I also don't get the fuss and bother about the ASLAV catching fire. Armoured vehicles are after all stuffed full of fuel and ammunition and they burn beautifully when penetrated in the right spot. The march to Baghdad after all was conducted past a cavalcade of burning Iraqi armoured vehicles. Do the western media think that only enemy armoured vehicles burn, and that somehow ours are invulnerable?

Idtiots.