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:
The headline is being parroted by virtually every media outlet:

Only upon a closer reading of the AP article can we see what Iran actually said:
In 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:
- Resisting police desires may be labeled “violence” … even if the police desires are unlawful
- Curling up in a ball to avoid police violence may be considered “active resistance” … justifying the use of more force, including baton strikes
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.




Good post ... thanks.
The Neocons in both parties are in fact both stupid and more or less sociopathic, and must be stopped. However, there is one little problem: Iran will become a nuclear weapons power.
Howzabout the folks who don't want to bomb Iran have a nice, reasoned discussion about that? 'Oh we all agree that's unacceptable.' BULLSHIT. It's called technology.
The entire Middle East, from Cairo to Tehran, is no bigger than the distance from Detroit to New York. It is full of weapons.
You know what's made for the most stability in the region? Borders. Simple, defensible borders.
State to state wars are actually rare in the post-WWII world. About 80% are ethnic internal, 15% political internal (i.e. Marxist or religious armed movements) and only about 5% state to state.
Borders, and jobs. Oh and female literacy (long story there)...those three things get you peace. NOTHING else does. Certainly not bombing people or being a bigoted asshole (I am talking to the mad dogs on all sides here).
Uh you forgot Women Suffrage as well...well that is if they are going to pretend to have some form of rule by the people
(Sorry to anyone offended by this).
Shaved armpits....... Not a Muslim!,,,
That.
And she's not being hung from a crane hook or stoned to death.
I always knew this burka meme was a ruse.
Underneath it all they're freaks!
Given the context it is offensive.
east meets west in one hot cultural and spiritually contrarian cliche. The dividing globes of dialetic dichotomy.
You are for free will, like free mothers milk, or you are for free fall of God's ire.
A Theory
Back lot of GK Films - Argo.
looks to be a serious case of cronic lung warts.
You mean like these ladies?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Atomic_women_Iran.JPG
Iranian newspaper clip from 1968 reads: "A quarter of Iran's Nuclear Energy scientists are women." The picture shows some female Iranian PhDs posing in front of Tehran's research reactor.
Oh and good old Wikipedia: Women in Iran were granted the right to vote in 1963.
Iranian and Israeli women are highly educated, politically active, and have a shall we say sophisticated (complicated) attitudes about living in a religious state. Generally I doubt many want to nuke each other.
Thats good for them. But not every nation over there has made such progress
Too true. You'll note the picture was from the late 60s though. You can tell even without looking at the date. There's been a mandatory veiling law in place since the 79 revolution.
They do have an active women's rights movement though. They collected a few thousand signatures in their 2006 "End Stoning Forever" campaign.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_rights_movement_in_Iran
LOL the CAPTION says it's from 1968, Sherlock. And yes, the Sharia restrictions are part of the complicated situation I referenced. So, my point stands.
I love it when people saying the same thing do it by having an argument.
"Iranian and Israeli women are highly educated, politicaly active, and have a shall we say sophisticated (complicated) attitudes about living in a religious state. Generally I doubt many want to nuke each other."
Actually, no. Your point is completely disingenuous. You're comparing:
- Israel and Iran as religions states (one is a secular democracy, the other a theocracty with an unelected executive branch)
- higher education opportunities for women in both .... when one of the major complaints of women's rights groups in Iran is the lack of educational opportunities, particularly in medicine, since the state requires they be segregated and educated by women, and there aren't many female doctors available to teach
- political involvement by women in both countries.... when in Israel that involves participating in politics as equals, and in Iran it involves largely a protest movement to be allowed to participate, or at least to have equal rights under the law (say....to dress how they want, not be stoned for adultery, or to be treated equally under the polygamy laws....whether that means it ends up being allowed or banned for both genders)
Sherlock....
I totally hope the U.S. government is insane and/or stupid enough to go to war again in the Middle East. Not only would it help speed up the richly deserved collapse of the United States, but it would also help eliminate thousands and thousands of tattooed, retarded eaters from Jesusland who think that by joining the U.S. military, they're somehow "fighting for their country." LOL--what a hoot! Go ahead, you moronic halfwits, line up at the nearest recruiting station like real "warriors": Corporate America needs your dismembered arms and legs. But here's the deal: If you happen to live, DON'T come back and complain about your missing limbs, or your traumatized mind, or the fact that you didn't know what you were getting yourself into over there. We're telling you RIGHT NOW what you're getting yourself into. You've been warned. If you allow yourself to be sucked into serving as a hit man for the criminal whores who run this country, then YOU are to blame for it--no one else. Choose wisely....
when i joined the army, there was a guy who reported for basic training with no shoes
no shoes people
an american from west virginia who had never owned a pair of shoes
sometimes its a simple decision, a simple financial decision
dont tell me someone who has never owned a pair of shoes is going to be aware of the political churnings of this world
a mans got to eat
sometimes military service is ones only option
18 yr olds dont know shit about this world
how would they with the lying ass corporate media we've had
As we learned at Nuremburg, "I was just following orders" is not a legitimate defense. Neither, I would add, is "I just needed a job." Millions of Americans manage to survive without signing up to work as murderers for Big Oil and other corporate scum. Sorry...
I don't know if thats gonna happen anymore. They may have to re-institute the draft at some point. In which case I would want every congress critter to have to sign his own seed up at the front of the list without any random drawing. And they all go to front line positions no whining. Nothing says love for your country and doing the right thing when you have to send your own blood to die in foreign wars. I think that would change many hearts in the warmongering parties.
A draft is not going to happen. Citizenship to foreigners who serve (and survive) will fill the gap - that and an agressive PR/Propaganda campaign.
Harsh, but I can't disagree.
'Citing national security risks, President Barry Soetoro Davis on Friday blocked a Chinese company from owning four wind farm projects in northern Oregon near a Navy base'
Ok so this is another example of how the war with Iran is actually a bankster war with China to keep them from getting Mid East oil as a way to force them under the NWO's financial control. Of course it could be anything but most likely the military buildup in the Mid East is to stop China and possibly Russia from going with an alternative monetary system. A typical bankster phenomenon.
But people of the world do have a chance this time to get the banksters because they have become the enemies of people everywhere. And, Israel is about to put the match to the powder keg.
It is either that or a concerted effort by both China and the US to have a controlled nuclear exchange. That is why it might be a good idea to find the upwind locations of underground US military complexes to live at in case you can't get out of the country. If it is a controlled exchange then those areas ought to be safe zones.
Isreal, unlike ''George Washington'' and others of such academic progressive ilk, cant afford the naivite (stupidity) to assume like GW does, that Iranian ''elimination rhetoric'' is just all in good harmless jocular fun. Islamic murder and genocide lately is not hard to find ie, Indonesia, Nigeria, Egypt, Tunisia, ect.,and of course, the million murdered in South Darfur.. Funny GW doesnt add that to his self-serving googled hyperlink collection.
As for Iran being ''nice to Christians'', well I guess GW is simply hopelessly prejudiced or extremely ignorant or yelling 'boss boss' waiting for the plane on Fantasy Island.
"Isreal, unlike ''George Washington'' and others of such academic progressive ilk, cant afford the naivite (stupidity) to assume like GW does, that Iranian ''elimination rhetoric'' is just all in good harmless jocular fun."
Gee, that sounds suspiciously like ISRAEL'S PROBLEM, now, doesn't it? I sure hope you figure out a way to solve that problem of YOURS, Israel. I wouldn't want to be in your shoes if you don't. Good luck! (For reference purposes, I'm standing on the East Coast of the United States as I write this, with my arm held high and my middle finger extended upward and eastward...)
Mecca??
Go join the IDF tough guy. They need some badasses like you since Hezbollah kicked their butts on the ground in the last lebonese conflict.
I hear the IDF is looking for a few badasses like yourself to pick up a galil and beat the shit out of some old Palestinians at the checkpoints.
.....beat the shit out of some old Palestinians at the checkpoints.
Israeli Coward
Israeli Scum
From Israel with love
Yeah, malevolent Isrealis. I bet they kick kittens between goalposts once their done. Isreal, an evil oases amidst an otherwise idyllic desert of Islamic justice and prosperity devoted to the majestic verses of the Koran (better not forget the <sarc>, considering the audience)
All you do is make enemies. Then you pretend to wonder why you have so many problems.
BTW RichardP - is this the writing style you are refering to?
Sort of, but not really. You've really mellowed out in the last year or so. Maybe you need some DHEA.
Mellowed? Not really.
You're just used to getting kicked now.
When I started, you had a bad reaction to the novel experience.
No. You are not nearly so obnoxious now as you were in the beginning. I think wisdom is catching up with you. And I've not noticed you kicking me at all over the past year or so. Maybe I've missed some of the responses to some of my posts.
The sad fact is that possessing nuclear wepons is the only guarantee against the USA invading a nation and proof of this is that crazy nation called North Korea.
So if Iran and a few other middle eastern nations did develop a bomb, the Middle East would in fact be more peaceful. Those that have nuclear weapons don't use them when their neighbours also have them. Think India and Pakistan.
North Korea is partly a Nuclear standoff and partly a strategic junkyard dog for China to check U.S. and Japanese aggresion in the region. The Chinese only feed the dog because they don't want refugee camps inside their borders. Its a cheap solution with symbiosis.
The one fallacious argument the Evangellical Right always makes is that they are fucking crazy and the Mullahs control Iran, so they will commit National suicide to bring on the 12th Imam. Their version of the Apocalypse or something like that. So they argue that the MAD plan that worked quite well against Russia during the Cold War would not work now. Imagine that a Kamakazie Nation? I wonder how the Iranian People feel about commiting mass suicide like the Jonestown cult?
... so they will commit National suicide to bring on the 12th Imam.
This is not brought to you by the Evangelical Right. It is brought to you by someone who has read Ahmadinejad's speech at the U.N. this past week. This is not pretend. This is real. You would do well to understand that this is real.
President Ahmadinejad spent the first few minutes of his time in front of his U.N. audience this past week educating them again about the return of the twelfth Imam (the speech is on the Internet). He has the ear of the entire world, and this is what he chooses to talk about. If he truely believes what he says, the destruction of Israel is not an end in itself, but a means to the end of bringing the twelfth Imam back. For those who believe they can bring the Imam back, spending their entire nation would probably be an acceptable price to pay - because they believe their reward would be greater than what they spent.
If you don't know this Imam story, it will be next to impossible to correctly interpret the events that are taking place now regarding Iran and Israel and the U.S.
There is information all over the Internet to help you learn the story if you need it.
RichardP, he never talks about the destruction of Israel as being necessary for the return of the 12th Imam. He talks about waiting patiently (just as many Christians are waiting for the return of Jesus). Here's his actual quote,
"These will all come true under the rule of the Perfect Man, the last Divine Source on earth, Hazrat Mahdi (Peace be upon him); an offspring of the Prophet of Islam, who will re-emerge, and Jesus Christ (Peace be upon him) and other noble men will accompany him in the accomplishment of this, grand universal mission. And this is the belief in Entezar (Awaiting patiently for the Imam to return). Waiting with patience for the rule of goodness and the governance of the Best which is a universal human notion and which is a source of nations' hope for the betterment of the world.
They will come, and with the help of righteous people and true believers will materialize the man's long-standing desires for freedom, perfectness, maturity, security and tranquility, peace and beauty. They will come to put an end to war and aggression and present the entire knowledge as well as spirituality and friendship to the whole world.
Yes; Indeed, the bright future for the mankind will come.
Dear friends,
In waiting for that brilliant time to come and in a collective commitment, let's make due contributions in paving the grounds and preparing the conditions for building that bright future.
Long live love and spirituality; long live peace and security; long live justice and freedom.
God's Peace and blessing be upon you all."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32561.htm
Is this the story we must know to correctly interpret events? It doesn't sound like he's advocating National suicide here.
There are large gaps in my knowlege, so I cannot say "this is true" about what Iranians believe about the return of the 12th Imam. But I have read much that says he will only come in turmoil. Indeed, that will be the value of his return - he restores peace. Of what value would restoring peace be if peace was already upon us? Perhaps, in the story, Iran is at peace with the world while the rest of the world fights amongst themselves? If Iran is indeed involved in turmoil when the 12th Imam returns, will they be fighting with their friends? Logic suggest they would be fighting with their enemies. It makes no sense to say that Israel and the United States would not be part of that fight.
"...the destruction of Israel is not an end in itself, but a means to the end of bringing the [Baby Jesus] twelfth Imam back."
Iran has no corner on end timer religious nutters.
“I’m driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, ‘George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.’ And I did, and then God would tell me, ‘George go and end the tyranny in Iraq,’ and I did.” [Washington Post, The Independent, The Guardian, BBC, 10/2005]
As far as hardliners go, it's the hardliners in the US and Israel that are foaming at the mouth and openly calling for war.
I'm just curious if we could possibly get a show of hands by the people of Iran. We don't get to see the whole picture here in the USSA. True we are not as censored here as other countries, but you kinda have to wonder what BS the Iranians are being fed within their own borders. You think they are having 12th Imam pep rallies? Or is it a remote possibility that a small group of radicals have hijacked their government and use all sorts of tactics to quell the majority. I don't think that line of reasoning is completely out of line.
You said: The one fallacious argument the Evangellical Right always makes is that they are fucking crazy and the Mullahs control Iran ...
Then you just said: Or is it a remote possibility that a small group of radicals have hijacked their government and use all sorts of tactics to quell the majority. I don't think that line of reasoning is completely out of line.
Seems to me that your second statement agrees with the one made by the Evangelical Right - the argument you called fallacious. I'm not trying to be snarky here.
Shut up you fucking shoe-shine boy.
I haven't shined my shoes in years.
What if around the world everyone has an insurrection against bankter occupation as Keiser says and just when the shit hits the fan in Iran Europe and the US go off. Same enemy. The globalist are trying to prevent China from getting oil. I think China will run a pipeline through Afgahnistan to Iran as well as do offshore into the largest petroleum reserves in the world and the US and NATO ain't going to stop them without blowing up the entire world which I'm sure Bill would back me on this, Hillary would love to do.
Iran hung a bankster for fraud recently...
Hey George, watch this....It's the JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOZ!!!!!!!!!!! Now everybody duck and cover
Judaism and Zionism are two different things. Not even akin to eachother.
Judaism is the backbone of zionism and jew supremacism the main difference is that religious jews don't believe in a jewish state. Here is a quote from a top religious jew:
"The difference between a Jewish and a non-Jewish person stems from the common expression: "Let us differentiate." Thus, we do not have a case of profound change in which a person is merely on a superior level. Rather, we have a case of "let us differentiate" between totally different species. This is what needs to be said about the body: the body of a Jewish person is of a totally different quality from the body of [members] of all nations of the world …
{p. 60}…However, is so great that the bodies should be considered as completely different species. This is the reason why the Talmud states that there is an halachic difference in attitude about the bodies of non-Jews [as opposed to the bodies of Jews] " "their bodies are in vain." . . . An even greater difference exists in regard to the soul. Two contrary types of soul exist, a non-Jewish soul comes from three satanic spheres, while the Jewish soul stems from holiness.
We therefore ask: Why should a non-Jew be punished if he kills even a non-Jewish embryo while a Jew should not be punished even if he kills a Jewish embryo? The answer can be understood by [considering] the general difference between Jews and non-Jews: A Jew was not created as a means for some [other] purpose; he himself is the purpose, since the substance of all [divine] emanations was created only to serve the Jews." In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" [Genesis 1:1] means that [the heavens and the earth] were created for the sake of the Jews, who are called the "beginning." This means everything, all developments, all discoveries, the creation, including the "heavens and the earth – are vanity compared to the Jews. The important things are the Jews, because they do not exist for any [other] aim; they themselves are [the divine] aim."
A non-Jew’s entire reality is only vanity. It is written, "And the strangers shall stand and feed your flocks" [Isaiah 61: 5]. The entire creation [of a non-Jew] exists only for the sake of the Jews …
http://www.davidduke.com/?p=610