Will Neocon Lies Cause Another War?
by James Buchanan
A recent opinion article notes “It’s both fascinating and dismaying watching the manufactured ‘crisis’ over Iran reach new intensity each week. Iran poses no real military threat to anyone, but listening to the Bush Administration or the US media one would think that Tehran was about to unleash a nuclear holocaust on the world. What we are seeing is a rerun of the administration’s massive propaganda offensive that led to the invasion of Iraq. There is also no doubt that the Bush Administration has been planning a major air war against Iran. The highly respected American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh even claims the Bush Administration is considering the use of tactical nuclear weapons against Iran’s underground nuclear facilities.”
What exactly did Iran do to become the target of this campaign of slander? Did Iran invade its neighboring countries? No. The Iran-Iraq War was started by the Iraqis (with secret US support and encouragement). The US has been the biggest threat to world peace in recent decades invading one nation after another ever since Bush Senior became president. Panama, Iraq, Serbia and Somalia have all been targets of US military aggression. The action in Somalia originally started out as a food distribution program, but it changed into an assassination mission against a warlord there, which led to the “Blackhawk Down” fiasco. We can’t even pass out food without getting into a firefight. Maybe we should just keep our military at home, where it belongs. (more…)