New Route To War With Iran

Comment by Larry Ross, July 19, 2005

 

Is the road to a U.S./Israeli war with Iran, through Lebanon.? Linda McQuaig has made a persuasive argument below that it is.

Israel and the U.S. have wanted a war with Iran for sometime. Both the Israeli and American public will probably except any excuse for war however far-fetched because they have been heavily propagandised by their own media - misinformed and uninformed to be anti-Iran and pro-Israel. They will even accept war when all the justifications have been exposed as lies, as in the Iraq war, where the slaughter of Iraqis and destruction of their homeland continues without any excuses at all. Emperors don't need excuses and justifications for war.  Bush is like an Emperor, doing as he pleases, and setting the rules. Wait - I forgot, Bush is bringing freedom and democracy to the Iraqi people and soon, others in the Middle East. He is succeeding as there are now up to 250,000 Iraqi deaths due to Bush's attacks. Bush wants Iraq's oil and is prepared to sacrifice any number of lives to get it. That involves establishing permanent U.S. bases in Iraq.

Now it is not false justifications and accusations that Bush relies on to make war. He has invoked the old American battle cry 'for freedom and democracy'.

So I guess that's supposed to make it all okay. The American people always respond well when Bush sounds those magic words: 'for freedom and democracy'. Who needs justifications and legality when you have such a slogan? It's like an all-American battle cry as Bush leads his Fundamentalist new Holy Crusade in the Middle East. 

Will Winston Peters (NZ Foreign Minister) in Washington this week supposedly 'to improve N.Z./U.S. relations' try to get New Zealanders to adopt this American battle cry and war propaganda also?

By blaming Iran for Hezbollah, and for giving aid to their fellow Muslims as they are morally, religiously and legally entitled to do, American propagandists can construct a justification for war with Iran. What they will never say is that the U.S. - which is now the Bush Administration - has no conceivable right to dictate how any nation in the middle east should act or react to Israel's massive bomb attacks and coming invasion of South Lebanon.

The U.S. may use this technique rather than stage a terrorist incident in the U.S. to justify war with Iran as Paul Craig Roberts and others have warned.

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