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Huge Deception Campaign to Demonise Iran

Comment by Larry Ross, February 2, 2007

Paul Craig Roberts is one of the best political commentators today and most qualified to give us the truth of what is going on in Washington and what is likely to happen.

What impressed me was the large amount of advice Bush was given by highly qualified Americans that invading Iraq was a mistake. An even greater amount of advice said making war on Iran would be a bigger mistake, very much against US interests, and threatening to the world. However, no amount of wise advice has any effect on Bush, who is following an insane, Israeli-inspired, neoconservative agenda.

Another revelation is just how incendiary the false propaganda, lies and accusations are about Iran by well-known right-wing Americans.

Also, how the US mass media carries this warmongering with headlines into every US household. As a rule they will not allow any serious refutation of the lies. But they like to trumpet that  America  has "a free press" because they allow an occasional dissenting letter to the editor that few read. People are influenced by the big headlines, and tend to disregard small print items and letters. Editors know this but still headline the lies. 

As Roberts says: "The world has not experienced this level of warmongering since Hitler".

Humanity is on the verge of using the weapons it has spent billions to create over 60 years, to annihilate itself in the service of a deluded megalomaniac liar. It's as if the humanity has lost the ability to confront such traumatic realities and prefers a dumbed down existence of comfortable conformity and amusement.

The important realities of what a nuclear war would be like and what would happen if it went global seems to be overlooked by most political commentators and people. Because the issue of a planned nuclear war with Iran is not covered by our mass media, except by distortions of reality and lies, people tend to treat it as of little importance. They don't consider alternative sources of information such as some of the most authoritative of the 21 million articles revealed on a Google search of "Nuclear War On Iran".

Many believe if it's not on TV or in the paper, it's not news, it's not happening and they don't have to worry or do anything about it. It's an almost automatic reaction that news from other sources, like internet, can be disregarded as not important.

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More Deception from the War Criminal

by Paul Craig Roberts, January 26, 2007

Bush's State of the Union Address did not describe the deplorable state of the union. The speech's importance consists of Bush's plea to Congress to please let him fool them one more time in order that he can attack Iran and start a bigger war that Congress will have to support in order to support Israel.

That is all the president had to say.

The "surge" of U.S. troops for Iraq is another deception. The surge's purpose has nothing to do with achieving victory in Iraq. Its purpose is to counter the pressure from the American public, Congress and the U.S. military to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq. Once a withdrawal begins, the neoconservative misadventure in the Middle East is at an end before its goals can be achieved. Delaying the withdrawal by proposing an escalation and provoking a debate gives Bush and Israel time to orchestrate an attack on Iran.

No one in Congress or print and TV media is prepared to call Bush on this transparent deception. Instead, critics focus on the fact that the surge cannot succeed. For example, in the Democratic response to Bush's address, Sen. Jim Webb, who served as secretary of the navy under President Reagan, stressed the recklessness and cost of Bush's invasion of Iraq:

"The president took us into this war recklessly. He disregarded warnings from the national security adviser during the first Gulf War, the chief of staff of the army, two former commanding generals of the Central Command, whose jurisdiction includes Iraq, the director of operations on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and many, many others with great integrity and long experience in national security affairs. We are now, as a nation, held hostage to the predictable, and predicted, disarray that has followed."

Webb is the best that the Democrats have, and with Ron Paul the best that Congress has. Yet not even Webb can cut to the chase.

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