Wow, they really ARE stupid.

So I think it’s no surprise that the U.S. administration, in their current Iran warmongering, would consider fabricating evidence so that they’d have an excuse to do the same horrible things they did in bringing war to Iraq.

But this, my friends, is really stupid.

This post at Language Log discusses a NYT has an article which presents Iran’s reaction to the “evidence” of Iranian involvement in bringing weapons to Iraq.

You see, some of the material allegedly of Iranian origin apparently has dates in MM/DD/YYYY order on it. And the Iranians (quite rightly, it should be supposed) think that’s a little weird.

Now, for those of you who’ve never paid any attention to anything outside of the U.S., you should note that the U.S. is one of the few places in the world where such a format is used. Iran, however, is, in fact, not one of those places. You know, because the rest of the world isn’t like us just because we think we’re the best place ever.

Most of the rest of the world – this includes Iran – uses DD/MM/YYYY format. And some larger Asian countries use YYYY/MM/DD format. But most places, outside of the U.S., do not use the MM/DD/YYYY format. This is probably one of the first things you learn if you, you know, leave the country.

So basically, um… unless the Iranians are just being really clever in labelling their munitions or documents or whatever this was about, we are, yet again, being assholes. Well, I take that back. We the people are not. Our not-so-democratically-elected government, on the other hand, wins the Golden Rectum Award for this one. C’mon guys… if you’re going to manufacture evidence, at least get the freaking dates right.

And if the rest of our government outside of the administration doesn’t jump all over this to stop involvement in Iran we simply cannot afford, cannot do, cannot live with, we are one seriously damned broken country.

I’m seriously ashamed by this.