Re: Informed Comment on anti-Iran media manipulation in the US
- From: Monsieurstat <monsieurstat@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:14:16 -0000
Well, professor's Cole reasons for NOT seeing Iran as a threat to the
US are logical, but the fact is that Iran IS the number ONE threat to
the US and the West in general.
Those who run the show in the West are very aware of this fact. They
know that Iran, even if only a minor player today, is quickly gaining
momentum to become a major player, capable of challenging Imperialism
head on. True, we won't do it through military means, which makes us
even more theatening. We have a much better arms at out disposition.
West's full arsenal of conventional weapons, along with their WMDs are
utterly useless in the face of our determination, and belief in global
Justice, Peace and Spirituality.
Stat.
On Jun 4, 11:24 am, Pacifist <mushroom...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
An excellent expose of the manipulation of the public opinion by
professor Juan Cole, in his "Informed Comment" blog. Here's an
extract:-
http://www.juancole.com/2007/06/gore-on-bush-propaganda-us-bombs-shii...
"Polling shows that the percentage of Americans who view Iran as the
number one threat to the United States has risen to 27 percent now. I
think it was only 20 percent in December 2006. First of all, how in
the world can a developing country with about a fourth of the
population of the US, about a $2000 per capita income (in real terms,
not local purchasing power), with no intercontinental ballistic
missiles, with no weapons of mass destruction (and no proof positive
it is trying to get them), with a small army and a small military
budget-- how is such a country a "threat" to the United States of
America? Iranian leaders don't like the US, and they talk dirty about
the US, and they do attempt to thwart US interests. The same is true
of Venezuela under Chavez. But Tehran is a minor player on the world
stage, and trying to build it up to replace the Soviet Union is just
the worst sort of fear-mongering, and it is being done on behalf of
the US military industrial complex, which wants to do to Iran what it
did to Iraq. It is propaganda, and significant numbers of Americans
(a
7 percent increase would be like 21 million people!) are buying it.
Why have those poll numbers gone up? Because the Bush administration
is trying to hang the Sunni Arab insurgency in Iraq on Iran (and even
trying to hang the Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan on Iran). The
message of administration and military spokesmen is that Iran is
deliberately killing US troops and is a major source of insurgency in
Iraq. No convincing evidence has ever been presented for either
allegation, nor is it reasonable to assume that Iran plays a
significant role in funding hyper-Sunni, Shiite-killing death squads
to deliberately destabilize its client governments in Baghdad (al-
Maliki) and Kabul (Karzai). Yet the New York Times and even the
Guardian put this b.s. on the front page, and of course it is all
over
CNN, Fox Cable News, MSNBC, etc"
P
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