A small break for Iran

A small break for Iran
Sep 1, 2007

The latest International Atomic Energy Agency report on Tehran's nuclear
program dampens the momentum for another round of United Nations
sanctions. This may well be unwelcome news to the hawks in Washington, but
it does go some way to breaking down the "wall of mistrust" between the US
and Iran.

- Kaveh L Afrasiabi Asia Times

Lest we forget, the current White House rhetoric on Iran bears strong
resemblance to that used in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq; it was
based on public deception as well as complete disregard for the findings
of UN weapons inspectors, who after some 400 inspections of every
conceivable site in Iraq had not found any evidence of weapons of mass
destruction.

Little wonder some members of the US Congress, such as Democrat Peter
Welch, have drawn comparison between the two cases. "I don't trust the
president on Iran. He's demonstrated a willingness to play it fast and
loose when he was justifying Iraq. So I don't have confidence in what the
president said [about Iran], and I don't have confidence in his judgment,"
Welch said in an interview after President George W Bush's latest salvo
against Iran.

The US media have toed the official line, however, as if no lesson has
been learned from the fiasco of the Iraq war, aptly summarized in a recent
public television program hosted by the Public Broadcasting Service's Bill
Moyers titled Buying the War.

Sadly, history repeats itself and the mainstream US media have once again
accommodated themselves to the Washington warmongers targeting Iran, led
by the right-wing Fox TV and Washington Times, which have made this a top
priority with their slew of "experts" counseling the advisability of
bombing Iran. Clearly, selling war on Iran is good media business, even
though it may be a nightmare for the US - let alone the global - economy.

Cont'd
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/II01Ak02.html

"The working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are responsible
for everything that takes place, the good things and the bad things. True
enough, they suffer most from a war, but it is their apathy, craving for
authority, etc., that is most responsible for making wars possible. It
follows of necessity from this responsibility that the working masses of
men and women, they and they alone, are capable of establishing lasting
peace."

?Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism

Bring them home now
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