Americans should not be fooled by Bush's reckless depiction of Iran threat (The Daily Star-Lebanon)

[tbyg52]

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Editorial

Despite all of the recent assurances from American officials that the United States does not want to wage war on Iran, the past few weeks have seen a palpable increase in the volume of war-mongering rhetoric emanating from Washington. A few months ago, the saber-rattling was all about Iran's alleged attempts to develop nuclear weapons. But now that this overplayed "threat" no longer stirs the fears and aggressive passions of the American people, the Bush administration is promoting a new allegation: that Iran is the mastermind behind lethal attacks on US troops in Iraq.

This new charge against Iran is as flimsy - if not more so - as the ones that were circulated prior to the invasion of Iraq. We all recall that Vice President Dick Cheney twisted the facts about one lone Islamic militant in Iraq to fabricate an elaborate story that Saddam Hussein was in cahoots with Al-Qaeda prior to the war. And we all recall that this ruse was debunked and quietly forgotten not long after the US-led invasion.

More:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&article_id=83705&categ_id=17#

(Edited for usual stupid typo.)

[irislake]

1. Why in the hell would you fall for the

same old same old twice? Oh I forgot --- some of the important Democrats are owned by the corporate war machine.

[MrPrax]

2. Bit of a dodge...

Americans can be a lot of things, but they are not necessarily stupid and they are NOT being fooled.

But at the same time, they, like most in the western world, are also not being consulted. So how can they be blamed this time around.

It is specifically a cabal of interests that have lodged themselves in western governments (all over!!) and have consciously expanded the central powers of each state overtime to dictatorial rule at the expense of democracy, domestic/international laws and basic human rights.

At this juncture in time, the American people don't look like they are any more effective in speaking to power than their counterparts in Iran...even though there is world of difference between the two.