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American Media Drums Up Support for War … Again

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American Media Drums Up Support for War … Again

Even After Mea Culpas For Horrible Iraq War Coverage, American Media Does the Same Thing With Iran

The American people are being bombarded with messages that Iran will launch an attack unless it is bombed.

For example, this is a top AP headline from today:

Iran1 American Media Drums Up Support for War ... Again

The headline is being parroted by virtually every media outlet:

Iran 1b American Media Drums Up Support for War ... Again

Iran 1a American Media Drums Up Support for War ... Again

Only upon a closer reading of the AP article can we see what Iran actually said:
Clipboard02 American Media Drums Up Support for War ... AgainIn other words, Iran is saying if you attack us first, we’ll fight back.

That’s a little bit different from the misleading headline … isn’t it? As I noted in August, this is the old bully’s trick of pretending he is the victim:

Police have recently stated on the record that:

Indeed, in modern America, even being worried that the government is acting in a bullying manner can literally get one arrested, committed to a psychiatric ward or labeled as a terrorist.

 

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In other words, the government is using the age-old bully’s trick: pretending that the victim is the attacker, and the bully is merely defending himself.

 

The same is true in terms of our foreign policy. For example, when we accidentally kill foreigners, we pretend that they were armed or pretend that they were “militants”.

 

The government invaded Iraq because it claimed Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and that he had a hand in 9/11 … but everyone knew that both claims were false.

In fact, the American media is always pro-war, and happily trumpets disinformation about supposed enemies to drum up support for new wars. Indeed, some think that war is fun.

The people pushing for war against Iran are the same people who pushed for war against Iraq … and said it would be a “cakewalk”.

But even after all of the mea culpas for their horrible Iraq coverage – by the New York Times, Washington Post, MSNBC and others – the media are doing the exact same thing with Iran.

Israel Versus Iran: What’s REALLY Going On …

 

The Conflict Only Makes Sense With Historical Perspective

Israeli prime minister Netanyahu and Iranian president Ahmadinejad both seem like hotheads. Israel and Iran are making fiery accusations against each other. There have been religious wars in the Middle East for thousands of years (think Crusades) ... are we drifting towards WWIII? What's really going on? It is only apparent when you learn the historical context:

  • The people pushing for war against Iran are the same people who pushed for war against Iraq, and said it would be a “cakewalk”. See this and this
  • In 2002, for example, Israeli prime minister Netanyahu helped convince the American Congress that Saddam was making weapons of mass destruction:

(Of course, American intelligence already knew that Saddam didn't really possess WMDs. And see this.)

  • The CIA admits that the U.S. overthrew the secular, moderate, suit-and-tie-wearing, Democratically-elected prime minister of Iran in 1953. He was overthrown because he had nationalized Iran's oil, which had previously been controlled by BP and other Western oil companies. As part of that action, the CIA admits that it hired Iranians to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its prime minister
  • If the U.S. hadn't overthrown the moderate Iranian government, the fundamentalist Mullahs would have never taken over. (Moreover, the U.S. has had a large hand in strengthening radical Islam in the Middle East by supporting radicals to fight the Soviets and others)
  • The U.S. armed and supported Iraq after it invaded Iran and engaged in a long, bloody war which included the use of chemical weapons. Here is former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld meeting with Saddam Hussein in the 1980's, several months after Saddam had used chemical weapons in a massacre:

  • Hotheads within the U.S. and Israeli have been claiming for more than 30 years that Iran was on the verge of nuclear capability
  • The U.S. actually helped fund Iran's nuclear program

  • The decision to threaten to bomb Iran was made before 9/11

Postscript: Top American and Israeli military and intelligence officials say:

  • Despite its heated rhetoric – Iran is a “rational actor”. For example, in 2011, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified before Congress that “we continue to judge Iran’s nuclear decision-making is guided by a cost-benefit approach.” In February 2012, General Ron Burgess, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told Congress that “the agency assesses Iran is unlikely to initiate or provoke a conflict.” Also in February, General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said: “We are of the opinion that Iran is a rational actor”

And despite the fact that Iran is a Muslim country, it actually treats Jews and Christians pretty well ... much better than close U.S. ally Saudi Arabia.

 

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Sat, 09/29/2012 - 13:42 | 2841727 SubjectivObject
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RichardP obviosly has a career working ZH.

Wonder the entity of his employ?

With that incredibility, it does not matter what he writes going forward, I'll never see it.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 21:24 | 2842462 RichardP
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With that incredibility, it does not matter what he writes going forward, I'll never see it.

You've actually read what I've written in this thread and you think it is not true?  Or maybe you realize it's true, but it doesn't matter?

I've heard that western logic and eastern logic are different.  But even if that is true, this question still must be answered before we seriously critique the establishment of the current Zionist state: re. the Muslim conquest of Palestine and further Muslim attacks against the Byzantine Empire ... What historical claim did the Muslims have to Palestine that they should overrun and conquer it against the objections of the people who had lived there for thousands of years?

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 12:42 | 2841626 blindman
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" when you've begun to think like a gun,
the days of the year have suddenly gone." john cale
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John Cale- "Gun" (a pulp music video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeMHetUOdYQ
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sympathies all around. life can be as brutish and
short as you let it be, very permissive on the
freedom to act part but short on escaping consequences
and the karmic loops back to the source; the life you save might be your own?
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Man Shoots Son In Burglary Investigation
By Amanda Crum · 21 hours ago
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http://www.webpronews.com/man-shoots-son-in-burglary-investigation-2012-09
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here a story the zionists / neocons could learn from?

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 23:48 | 2842649 putaipan
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5 minutes of 'your mama is so zionist'.........http://www.rys2sense.com/anti-neocons/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=29966

Sun, 09/30/2012 - 00:29 | 2842672 blindman
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yo mama, yo papa... ruins.
the dick cheney boo ...blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATpgJtouPaw&feature=mr_meh&list=UULwXLS-K...
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Sat, 09/29/2012 - 14:09 | 2841770 shovelhead
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What lesson?

Don't go to your aunts house window with a ski mask and a knife and menace your father when he has a gun?

I filed that lesson right beside not walking into rotating airplane propellers.

Thanks.

 

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 14:38 | 2841826 blindman
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zionists and neocons walking into airplane
propellers, that is what they do ! you nailed
it. then they aim and shoot their own and they
expect everyone else to follow their example.
to some degree they have been successful at that.
that is the lesson, one of self destruction due
to fear, paranoia and stupidity.
sympathies all around

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 11:54 | 2841563 cognus
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With the current USA Washington DC Administration [which does not actually represent the people of the republic formerly known as the United States of America], stability and protection of religious minorities are target-markers. Add to those solvency and you have a "Terror State Actor" fit for bombing, droning, land-attacks, occupation, starvation, confiscation, obliteration, rebuilding, complete with a new GREEN ZONE and a puppet government.

Its good work Entity known as George Washington, except for your disinformation concerning the history and activities and current actions of Islamistism

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 11:44 | 2841552 shovelhead
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Reading the comments here makes me think of the high liklyhood gaining large profits from the resurgence of IG Farbin and the future success of one of their most popular products from the past.

It appears their core customers of the past and their projected new consumers are much the same in philosophy and temperment.

Zyklon-B...Back by popular demand.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 09:47 | 2841385 JamesBond
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Attacking Iran would only speed up its development of nuclear weapons, empower its hardliners, and undermine the chance for democratic reform

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LOL

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 08:53 | 2841327 blindman
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NY Jews Embrace Ahmadinejad; “Zionism is not Judaism.” Piers Morgan: “How Many Times Have You Been In Love?”

Posted on September 29, 2012 by maxkeiser
http://maxkeiser.com/2012/09/29/ny-jews-embrace-ahmadinejad-zionism-juda...
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this clears up a few things. thank you max and stacy
and our gracious hosts.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 10:33 | 2841428 Ignatius
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Funny how this clip never gets any mainstream play.  I wonder why that is?

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 09:37 | 2841372 falak pema
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astonishing indeed. May all take heed. TY.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 08:44 | 2841322 max2205
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Unlike the 1970's when most distrusted the military for any reason, now the US media and population backs the military for any reason.....dangerous shift.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 19:32 | 2842309 Ima anal sphincter
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If any General or Admiral actually believed in The Constitution, our traitors in Washington would be history. What we have are sellout's at ALL levels.

"The People" must set this right. How many understand this???? Unfortunately..... very few.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 08:32 | 2841314 Lumberjack
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It's the PR machine at work.

http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?...

If you have ever heard of Hill and Knowlton you will know why.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 07:51 | 2841293 Joe A
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Well, the whorenalists need to keep their biggest employers happy. And I guess this feeling of 'being in bed with' aka embedded with, is a really good feeling. I am afraid this war will happen because the oil companies want it, as do the hawks in Israel and the West, as do the Saudies and the Qatars (the latter two can then play to be upset about a war against a fellow muslem country but in reality would be happy since Iran is a Shiite country (no, I did not say Shitty country) and they are Sunni.)

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 07:39 | 2841286 falak pema
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Bibi / Iran Bomb ultimatum

Concerning the famous cliche of Bibi and the bomb scam :

Here is a list of parodies on this theme in French Huff Post (scroll down the article) : 

Iran: après son dessin de bombe, Netanyahou s'explique avec les candidats américains Barack Obama et Mitt Romney

Might I add that WB7's rendering is right up there in #1, compared to this lot! 

On BoMBS AND HaTe... | ZeroHedge

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 07:57 | 2841283 NuYawkFrankie
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Re Israel versus Iran: What's REALLY going on ?

 

Answer:

Like a dumb beast-of-burden, America is being - in turns - sweet-talked, prodded, threatened & cajoled into being a battering-ram - probably for the last time - for the Hostile Agenda of "The Usual Suspects".  

After the catastrophic failure of which, America will have what's left of it's carcass stripped to the bone - once again, by "The Usual Suspects".

An Object Lesson for The Ages.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 08:06 | 2841302 Bicycle Repairman
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"probably for the last time"

fight or fold, win or lose.  The "war on terrorism" may continue as a meme, but this is the end of actual fighting on a large scale.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 21:10 | 2842454 RichardP
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Some think that the Bible says otherwise.  Take your chances.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 06:59 | 2841266 Winston Churchill
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GW ,let me precis just a little,

OIL.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 07:40 | 2841287 Offthebeach
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MSM particularly is hurting for money. A war sells lowest quality wood pulp. Keeps blivetious americanus in their financed couch watching the boob tube so it will CC the latest crap.

Journalists are running scared. Majors want to be Generals. CPO's want to make retired Master Chief. Suppliers, Blackwater, the local Congressman wants work. State Depth wants status.
Millions depend on the warfare/welfare state and the vote.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 06:37 | 2841256 BattlegroundEur...
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The Israeli $50'ers are strong in this thread

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 05:26 | 2841234 Negro Primero
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RichardP  < Just 350 RED ARROWS for little BiBi.....Woow!!!


Sat, 09/29/2012 - 21:08 | 2842451 RichardP
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Surely there's more by now, wouldn't you think?

That many red arrows and still no one has answered my question:  re the Muslim conquest of Palestine and further Muslim attacks against the Byzantine Empire? ... What historical claim did the Muslims have to Palestine that they should overrun and conquer it against the objections of the people who had lived there for thousands of years?

It looks like it is easier to give red arrows than a thoughtful reply that might educate me.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 03:49 | 2841210 blindman
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.."That brings to mind the joke about the man who called his wife on her cell phone as she was driving on the freeway. He said, "Hi honey, it's me. I just wanted to tell you to be careful. They said on the news there is a car driving the wrong way on the freeway." The wife said, "It's not just one car; it's hundreds of them!""
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http://www.takeourworldback.com/bollynhufschmidmurdoch.htm
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but seriously folks, this is an incredible link.
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CATcerto. ENTIRE PERFORMANCE. Mindaugas Piecaitis, Nora The Piano Cat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeoT66v4EHg&feature=channel&list=UL

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 03:42 | 2841205 nathan1234
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By George

Bibi will do it

Either way it Bye Bye for him, hopefully not for the rest of us.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 03:20 | 2841194 blindman
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http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/

Posted by Jesse at 4:06 PM
A Financial Coup d'Etat, the Credibility Trap, and What Must Be Done
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" This is not a prediction. This is a warning for a generation that is being prepared to accept the unthinkable on a much wider scale than they might imagine in their worst nightmares: torture, murder, ethnic cleansing, and repression. And what is most frightening of all is that they think they are immune to it, because they are so different, so special, so exceptional. And so they become willfully blind, and in their blindness, may become beasts.

A credibility trap is when the regulatory, political and/or informational functions of a society have been compromised by a corrupting influence and a fraud, so that they cannot address the situation without implicating, at least incidentally, a broad swath of the power structure including themselves." jca

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 03:10 | 2841190 Inthemix96
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This one is for richardPee.

Lets leave America to sit this one out mate.  Now you run along and bibi yahoo he is more than welcome for his "chosen" to take on Iran.

Go ahead, game on, lets see if the magic man upstairs was right.  Surely he will see no harm to his "chosen" brethren.

Without America, Isreal is nothing.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 04:11 | 2841219 RichardP
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Without America, Isreal is nothing.

Without America, Egypt is nothing either.  That is probably also true of a few other countries receiving U.S. aid and/or support for those in power.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 08:00 | 2841301 Bicycle Repairman
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If only it were so.  But, oil.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 11:33 | 2841538 Tom Servo102
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Tell me again how much oil Egypt exports?  Or if that's too hard, how much do they produce?

 

c'mon, you can look that one up, easy.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 14:32 | 2841815 Bicycle Repairman
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It's more about Egypt's friends.  But we like to keep them all happy.  They're kind of clannish.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 03:05 | 2841188 blindman
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http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/09/26/263602/zionistdominated-media-lo...
Zionist-dominated media losing audience

"As Noam Chomsky says, the media’s job is “manufacturing consent.” One way they do this is by trying to make the public applaud on command, just as Pavlov trained his dogs to salivate on command.

The media mind-controllers have been manufacturing synthetic public applause, and synthetic laughter, ever since the American sound engineer Charles “Charley” Douglass invented the laugh track in the early 1950s. Whenever Big Brother’s mouthpiece fails to get the audience to cheer or laugh at the right moments, a sound engineer inserts a laugh track or an applause track, in hopes that the people watching at home will join in the ersatz cheering or hilarity. (The mind-controllers know that people tend to cheer when other people cheer, and laugh when other people laugh.)

The Zionist-dominated Western media has been working overtime for more than a decade to manufacture public consent to the 9/11-triggered War on Islam, the destruction of Constitutional liberties, and the gradual transition to a totally controlled, surveilled, microchipped society. They want us to cheer for war, lies, and unfreedom, and to boo the truth.

Unfortunately for the mind-controllers, people are increasingly cheering for the truth, cheering for peace, and cheering for resistance to Zionism. They are no longer acting like a pack of Pavlov’s dogs. The media mind-controllers are losing their audience. " ...

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"..By supporting the 9/11 big lie, and desperately trying to orchestrate public support for Zionism (and failing), big media is sealing its own doom. A series of Gallup polls shows that Americans trust the media less and less every year. As of this year, 60% of the American people say “they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly.” Since only 16% believe the government and media are telling the truth about 9/11, this is not surprising.

The official US Zionist mouthpiece, The New York Times, recently had to sell off 21 floors of its building because it is going broke. The rest of the Zionist corporate media is also collapsing into bankruptcy, as people turn to more truthful, critical, and comprehensive news sources including Press TV, Veterans Today, American Freedom Radio, What Really Happened, Citizens for Legitimate Government, and other alternative outlets.

Future historians, looking back at this bizarre moment in history, may ask themselves: When did the vox populi definitively turn against the Zionist-imperialist agenda of the 9/11 perpetrators? Those historians would do well to consider three recent examples of crowds going off-script: The DNC delegates roaring for anti-Zionism; Jesse Ventura’s CNN audience cheering for 9/11 truth; and the UN delegates (except Israel’s) cheering for Iranian president and 9/11 truth supporter Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 07:46 | 2841291 Bringin It
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blindman -I like your posts. This is encouraging news. Thanks

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 08:36 | 2841319 blindman
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thanks, the person who linked it to me
said the same thing, encouraged. it might-will
take a bit more before hope is renewed?
i try to link the best i see, or the worst,
with a natural and honest comment when possible.
best to you!

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 19:26 | 2842298 Ima anal sphincter
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Keep-em coming. ++++

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 01:58 | 2841154 KingTut
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Iran has gone WAY past the level of enrichment necessary for nuclear reactors; so they are de facto building a bomb.  Of course, a lot of posturing is going on here.  Iran wants to be taken seriously, and people with atomic weapons are usually taken seriously.  Iran can gain a great deal by pretending to build a bomb, then backing off in exchange for a peaceful ($) settlement.  Finally, they may actually think they will be stronger with a bomb.  In that case, they had better stop fomenting terrorism around the middle east.  If you ignore the non-proliferation treaty and build atomic weaponry, you must display sufficient maturity.  If you are irratic or cannot be trusted, your bombs pose a serious threat by default.  And they will be taken away in the most forceful manner imaginable.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 09:40 | 2841375 Vooter
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LOL...I hope Iran drops one on your house, you drooling, subhuman Jesus-fucker...

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 07:59 | 2841299 Kiwi Pete
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King Tut do you work for the CIA or some other arm of the military or psyopos organisation? Who are you to take anything off anyone else forcefully? If you want "irratic or can't be trusted" what about your Israeli overlords? Think they don't have the bomb? Really think they can be trusted? What about your own employers? Still out looking for Iraqi WMDs? Gues what? If Iran wanted a nuclear bomb they'd just buy one off the Pakistanis.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 04:07 | 2841216 Rick64
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Pakistan? North Korea? Your theory needs more work.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 02:50 | 2841184 RichardP
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Iran has gone WAY past the level of enrichment necessary for nuclear reactors;

No.  See the statistics here:

http://www.iranwatch.org/ourpubs/articles/iranucleartimetable.html

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 02:49 | 2841158 George Washington
Sat, 09/29/2012 - 11:03 | 2841488 xavi1951
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That would make Iran the largest producer of medical isotpes in the world.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 01:47 | 2841148 shuckster
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Well if Israel isn't the biggest fucking boy who cried wolf in the history of the fucking planet. Fool me once mutherfuckerz!

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 00:59 | 2841116 Arkadaba
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Billy Bragg - I remember the first round though I was young: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjUA3RU4B8E 

Round two ... or three.

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