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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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Fri, 09/28/2012 - 23:48 | 2841018 rocker
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Super Great Stuff George.  I have always had respect for Israel but something has changed that for me. Usually I assumed that the leaders were all good and honerable.

But first there was Liberman. He gave me caution because he did not seem to be 100% honest. Then there was Netanyahu, he raised a red flag for me. He seemed to persuade me to think his way on manipulated information. There is always the other side. His comments on the U.S. elections verified it for me. His N-Bomb did it for sure. I could not believe he did it. Then there was Romney. Mormons do NOT believe in the same God as most religions. Actually they believe their ward appointed Bishop can be God. In theory, they believe a man of their ward, (church), can or is one of their Gods. Seems there can be more than one. So, did Romney going to Israel putting his hand on the wall say he believed in their God. Some how, I don't buy it. Because Israel only believes in one God, which invalidates his other Gods.  But like his underwear, it seemed like magic theater that Romney found another one.

Last but least. I am in appalled to see how many jews have influence on our media, it explains much of what is wrong with America.

How can so many American's be so stupid and so manipulated. No wonder they believe so many deceptions. Learned some shocking stuff tonight.

Thanks all. 

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 23:56 | 2841030 alien-IQ
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Welcome to the ugly truth.

It ain't pretty...but at least it's real.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 00:48 | 2841104 JOYFUL
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Yes, welcome indeed, and thanks for sharing that little vignette of how honestly concerned readers gradually get tired of the disinfo and through sites such as this, can inform themselves of the facts...

And a BIG welcome to 'GEORGE' - to the light* of truth! After waiting for (the previously unthinkable) three fine pieces that could conclusively prove the return of this blogger from the dark side, I am compelled to congragulate GW on a job well done. It's rewarding to see that sites like ZH, where the little guy is allowed to have his say, can produce such turnarounds and stymie the intent of the sio-nazi media to eliminate dissent to their program!

*er, of the 'non-luciferian kind of course!

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 23:12 | 2840957 otto skorzeny
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Gee-what a coincidence- Jewish studio releases Ben Asslicker's new movie "Argo" about how the movie industry aided the escape of hostages from "evil Iranians". "Based On Real Events"-puke.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 23:01 | 2840939 alien-IQ
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How many major studio films can you name in which the central "bad guy" was an Israeli?

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 22:44 | 2840908 sansnobel
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You left out the pornagraphy industry with the "Hedgehog" as a shining example

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 08:20 | 2841308 davood
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Not to mention that almost all editors of major publishing houses in the U.S. are Jewish.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 21:46 | 2840763 Pink Floyd
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If the Jewish conspiracy was right, how comes most of the European Jews were murdered, third of all jews world wide?

Understand that the Jewish community never recovered from the holocaust.

 

The hypothesis that we face a partially coordinated message sanctioned by the powers (corporates and politicians) is more credible.

Though, rather than a conspiracy it is *just* natural came-theoretic forces of a administrations and corporates out of control fending for themselves first, even if it sacrifices others. See, organizations that don't struggle for domination get dominated ...

 

Lastly, while being critical of the dynamic, even a stand watch shows the correct hour twice a day.

Iran might be the correct hour.

The Iraq and Afghanistan adventures were obviously wasteful and wrong. This was clear at the time prior to them becoming part of our present.

Iran, regrettably, is not an obvious mistake.

 

Sadam Hossein did not threaten to use it WMD, Iran does. Iraq did not pose a threat to its Arab neighbors, Iran does.

 

 

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 00:23 | 2841061 JOYFUL
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...If the Jewish conspiracy was right, how comes most of the European Jews were murdered, third of all jews world wide?....

I don't know about Floyd, but I think that your face will be developing a shade of pink as it begins to sink in to your cratered cantaloupe of a cranium that you have begun a one man campaign to complete credibility collapse.

The(successful)campaign of the crypto-jewish forces behind sionism's long march to seize control of judaism  was earmarked by their creation of a puppet German regime under the control of one of their own mischlinger minions, who danced to the tune of the industrial conglomerate cartels like IG Farben, Westinghouse Standard Oil, in conducting a mission to eliminate that part of eastern european jewry which refused to consider relocating to the sionist laborite paradise of Palestine.

Nazi Germany was a creation and operation of these Sabbatean crypto-jewish forces, who, upon completing their mandate to force their sionist vision upon Europe, moved their operatives across the ocean to begin occupation of the American Republic. Today, with their work almost completed, in destroying that nation state, they are preparing to eliminate the jewish dupes who bought into their mad fantasies, by having the mideast blow up in a final storm of mutual annihilation.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 00:53 | 2841110 RichardP
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There is a more neutral discussion of the points you make in my Wikepedia link I gave above, and within the links that are provided in that article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism

This article, and its incorporated links, certainly don't cover everything.  But it gives enough information for someone to begin some serious research if they are interested.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 02:04 | 2841159 Bringin It
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RicardP can you acknowledge as pointed out repeatedly by others, that wiki is a biased source when it comes to your particular areas of interest?

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 02:34 | 2841176 RichardP
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The link I gave is a point of departure for more serious research.  It covers the points that deserve further study.  You would know that if you read the Wiki page I linked to.  And you would know that page makes many of the  points that Joyful made.  If that page is biased, and it makes many of the points that Joyful makes, that would mean Joyful's points are biased as well.  Shall we accept that as true?

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 03:12 | 2841191 Bringin It
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It's a credibility issue.  You have to salt the worthless claim with a few nuggets of truth or the dis-info will get no traction.

You have a lock on wiki.  That's impressive, but useless to keep citing it to make your point.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 03:33 | 2841200 RichardP
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No.  This is not an issue of truth.  It is an issue of topics.  The article, and the links within it, cover a great many topics involved with the discussion of Zionism.  For someone who doesn't know where to start researching the subject , the article and embedded links is a great resource.  You are beating a dead horse about Wikipedia not being reliable.  Reliability is not the issue.  Finding all these topics presented in a fairly short read is the issue.  The curious will research the topics using Wikipedia plus other resources.  Much better than staring at a blank page that tells you nothing.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 04:02 | 2841215 Bringin It
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RichardP, let me make this simple for you.

Links are a form of content.  Yes or No?

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 20:23 | 2842377 RichardP
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Links are pointers to many different kinds of content.  But you know that.  We aren't discussing theory here.  We are discussing a particular Wikipedia page, not all Wikipedia pages.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 11:14 | 2841507 Precious
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BI - Don't argue with idiots.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 22:19 | 2840864 Ima anal sphincter
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Iran, regrettably, is not an obvious mistake.

Horseshit dude! I swear I turned off the Nightly News with Brian Williams. Damn.....I got zapped with some lies anyway.

Give it your best shot there bud, but horseshit is horseshit. You're feeding off of it.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 23:05 | 2840946 RichardP
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And you have proof that you are correct, how??

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 00:28 | 2841077 Ima anal sphincter
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DickPrick....do you see those little arrows just below your name. One is green and one is red. Did-ja figure that out yet? Take a closer look and think REAL hard. The green ones mean that people agree with you. The red ones mean that people think you're full of shit. Now...... look at the numbers beside them. Those are the squiggly things just to the right of the arrows. Are we good so far????? Go back to the top if you need to review.

Those numbers actually have a unique ability of showing how people feel on this blog.Green arrows....good. Red arrows.......bad. You seem to have A WHOLE SHITLOAD OF NEGATIVE VOTES. Hum......I know why. Why don't you see if you can figure out for yourself.

Once you do....it would be real frickin nice if we didn't hear from you again.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 00:48 | 2841103 RichardP
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If that answered the question I asked, I have missed it.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 01:23 | 2841131 Ima anal sphincter
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Ya-know......I could come up with this FACT or that FACT, but you'd just feed out some more bullshit LIES as a rebuttal.

I DO know that I am not a friend of that "most evil of countries," Israel, and no matter what you throw out, I won't be changing my mind.

It must REALLY suck to know that people are awakening. All you can do is step up the pace, but all that does is make your matters worse. So, I'll take back my "go away" thing above. Stay for a while. Keep dishing it out. I'll just kick back and watch those down arrows accumulate, knowing full well that your "cause" is lost.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 01:59 | 2841155 Bringin It
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Ima - good stuff as usual. FYI- back in the day when there were not so many as now, calling the zinos out on their lies, our little darlin RichardP was attempting to get me ... banned.  He never was specific about what his beef was.  He just could not handle the truth crushing his phoney little ego-self.

Definitely not a good guy.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 02:30 | 2841166 RichardP
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Bringin It: Saying that your behavior/speech could get you banned would be a statement of fact.  And that was pretty specific.  That is miles apart from trying to get you banned.

And IMA, you are truely not helping the conversation if you cannot present facts that make you think Floyd's comment was not correct: Iran, regrettably, is not an obvious mistake.  Particularly in light of Ahmadinejad's opening remarks about the 12th Imam presented to the U.N. this past week.  I've discussed that in several places in this thread so I'll not re-do that here.  There is some serious stuff going on.  Your comments are not appropriate to the discussion that needs to take place - as they belittle the idea that there is anything serious going on.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 03:02 | 2841187 Bringin It
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revisionist history.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 03:26 | 2841198 RichardP
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We'll leave it to the audience to figure out who is being revisionist.  But my guess is that nobody cares.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 04:31 | 2841220 Bringin It
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Re. the audience

Well RichardP as you can see, more than quite a few care to thoroughly junk your bs whenever it appears.

l find that gratifying and encouraging.

How do you find it?

What happened to your back up?

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 20:18 | 2842372 RichardP
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I'm not meaning to blow you off re. your charge that I was trying to get you banned.  I'm making the distinction between warning someone that they could be banned vs. actually trying to get them banned.  I don't remember our exchange well enough to insist here that I said this and not that.  All I know is that I have no clue where to start on ZH to try and get someone banned.  But I believe at that point some folks had been banned, so I knew it could happen.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 02:13 | 2841164 Ima anal sphincter
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Thanks.......I actually think these guys are paid for this. One person with three or four aliases.

They're scared. As they should be. The truth WILL come out and their world will crash to the ground.

Even if we put them in their place, a generation from now, they'll be back with the same vile tricks.

I wish I had an answer to this nightmare, but I don't.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 22:07 | 2840837 Nikao7
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Do some research into the numbers.  For starters check out Red Cross numbers with regards to Nazi Germany.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 13:09 | 2841652 Precious
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PF, you dumb jackass, read how the Zionists collaborated with Nazis.

WTF.  You think the elite banking, mercantile Jews gave a shit about anybody else?

Guess again, moron koolaid propaganda guzzler.  

"How comes" is right.  You ignorant fucking idiot.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 21:10 | 2840634 SILVERGEDDON
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Media today is for folks who cannot do critical research and thinking on their own. Even with the power of the Internet to fill in the blanks. 

Politicians are the fall guys and janitors for the Powers That Be. 

It doesn't matter what color they paint their ties with, because they answer only to people with a net worth measured in billions who want to keep it that way. 

Politics has degenerated into a horrifyingly expensive little bloodless gladiatorial verbal lying contest prior to a rigged vote done for the most part on electronic voting machines that are pathetically easy to trick fuck into producing the desired result. 

The country has been bought and sold, along with everything in it including you and me.

 We are owned. 

Representation for the People, by the People, died a homicidal death at the behest of power and money a long time ago.  

All we have been experiencing since is the slow relentless consolidation of power and control ever since.

Divide, and conquer. 

It really works !

We are divided, conquered, and the apple is in our yappers, with the spit shoved up our asses, and getting closer to the fire each and every day. 

Hopefully real Americans prevail before the Powers That Be have roasted our asses, eaten the bones clean, and start fighting over the scraps.

The only thing between us and the end of freedom and democracy is the Constitution Of The United States Of America.

I may be overtly optimistic, but I believe that honor, truth, justice, and proper political representation can be achieved.

How it occurs and when, is the real question.

Why ? Because the folks who love power and control like meth or heroin addicts love their drugs aren't gonna let go easily. 

Okay, back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 23:04 | 2840941 RichardP
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Representation for the People, by the People, died a homicidal death at the behest of power and money a long time ago.

The sure cure for the problem you describe is for people to stop buying things.  Or at least only buy things locally-made.  But that is not going to happen.  So there is the source of the problem.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 10:25 | 2841401 Precious
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Fuck off ass hole.  We're not buy'n your shit whatsoever.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 22:22 | 2840875 Ima anal sphincter
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Excellent!!!!!! +1000

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 21:18 | 2840678 Tango in the Blight
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As long as there is sports on tv most people won't stop to think.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 21:39 | 2840737 RichardP
Fri, 09/28/2012 - 20:55 | 2840601 RichardP
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There have been religious wars in the Middle East for thousands of years (think Crusades) ...

Why think Crusades?  Why not think the Muslim conquest of Palestine and further Muslim attacks against the Byzantine Empire?  That would be the logical place to start - if one were interested in being logical.

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?

Oh ... wait - fighting over territory and driving people off their land is something natural that has been going on since land was invented.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 20:55 | 2840609 George Washington
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Fri, 09/28/2012 - 22:12 | 2840848 Pink Floyd
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Your map is wrong, misguided at best, decietful at worst.

1946 arab settlement of Israel was scarce.

It was even scarcer in 1900.

 

Did you check airail and land photos from 1900? The land was barren. It discredits the claims of palestinian land stolen from them [palestinians].

 

Also, the notion of Palestinian people is new. Roughly 30 years old. There simply were no Palestinians 50 years ago, only Arabs.

In fact, those we call Palestinians call themselves Balestinians, because Arabic does not have the sound "pa".

You see, how is it possible for a nation calls itself a name they cannot even pronounce?

 

Therefore, there cannot possibly be Palestinian refugees. There are Arab refugees, which should have been naturalized by the Arab nations, except they don't care very much for their people. Certainly less than keep on fighting non-Arabs.

 

Sun, 09/30/2012 - 19:45 | 2843723 Tompooz
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Also, the notion of Palestinian people is new. Roughly 30 years old. There simply were no Palestinians 50 years ago, only Arabs.

In fact, those we call Palestinians call themselves Balestinians, because Arabic does not have the sound "pa".

 

 

I am looking at coins and stamps from 1936 bearing the word Palestine in English, Arabic and Hebrew. In Arabic it is spelled Falastin. (like the Philistines of old..)

You are displaying your ignorance. Mr Floyd. (or is that Lloyd?) 

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 23:12 | 2840948 alien-IQ
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The map is not wrong, you are.

Here is some Film Footage of Palestine circa 1896:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vaIK8wlAl0&feature=player_embedded

so much for your "30 year" bullshit.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 10:27 | 2841415 Winston Churchill
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I have three large crates of glass stills photographs from earlier than that ,taken by my great grandfather.

He took them all over the ME as part of his work from 1860 onwards to 1880.

Some amazing picture in perfect condition that also belie Floyds' BS.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 13:46 | 2841734 ArmchairRevolut...
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You should publish those pictures. I think that would be very interesting.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 13:31 | 2841696 SubjectivObject
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That's a collection that needs publishing.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 23:00 | 2840936 RichardP
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... 1946 arab settlement of Israel was scarce.

From my Wikipedia link to Zionism - the 1948 attack on Israel by the Arabs led to an exodus of about 711,000 Arabs.  Considering how sparsely the area was populated at that time, 711,000 seems to be a reasonably significant number.  And in G.W.'s defense, the map shows Palestinian territory - not the ethnicity of who was living there.  Was the implication that all this territory was settled by Arabs???

On May 14, 1948, at the end of the British mandate, the Jewish Agency, led by David Ben-Gurion, declared the creation of the State of Israel, and the same day the armies of seven Arab countries invaded Israel. The conflict led to an exodus of about 711,000 Arab Palestinians,[45] known to Palestinians as Al Nakba (the "catastrophe"),

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 23:59 | 2841036 JOYFUL
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Your continual recourse to "Zio-pedia in an attempt to reinforce your position is one of the most egregious examples of circular logic to ever infect this discussion, similar in intent, and infantility to an opponent of said position quoting ad nauseaum from some Wahabi-pedia, if such an animal exists. 

Please spare us further examples of your inability to bring unbiased perspectives to the playing field.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 00:23 | 2841067 RichardP
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Floyd said: 1946 arab settlement of Israel was scarce.

I responded:  the 1948 attack on Israel by the Arabs led to an exodus of about 711,000 Arabs.

Rather than require Floyd to take my word for it, I point out that the sentence was taken from a resource I have already linked to in a post above.

a. Is the 711,000 figure substantially incorrect?

b. I was supporting G.W.  How do you get from that that I was reinforcing my position?

c. Stating that sources say 711,000 Arabs were expelled from Palestine as a result of the 1948 war is biased?

I'm left thinking that your comments were triggered by different posts than the one you attached them to.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 13:24 | 2841671 Precious
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The issue has NOTHING FUCKING TO DO WITH PALESTINE.

PALESTINE IS A RUSE.  THE RIGHTS OF PALESTINIANS IS A PLOY AND A CONTRIVED DISTRACTION.

The only thing the Zionists want is domination sourced from their CITY STATE.  Their own little, nuclear armed, WASHINGTON DC clone.

Neither have any legitimacy.  Jews never needed a state.  They are a religion.  They need a state like Baptists need a state.

Zionism is for mercantilism and greed, plain and simple. 

Blame the fucking meddlers in the UK for being cowards and inventing this cancer.  Nobody but New York Jews ever wanted an Israel.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 20:09 | 2842362 RichardP
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Yes.  The Wikipedia article on Zionism discusses the fact that many religious Jews believe that establishing the Zionist state is against their religion.

Zionism is for mercantilism and greed, plain and simple.

Is there a problem with that?

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