Iran Affairs

Today's Liars: Jonathan Freedland, David E Sanger

This is going to be a regular feature on my site -- Today's Liars. Here, I plan on highlighting the most egregious examples of poor journalism that I run across - so poor, in fact, that it can't merely be attributable to simple incompetence. As sort of a celebatory kick-start, I'm going to start out with TWO lying liars: Jonathan Freedland of the Guardian, and David E Sanger of the New York Times.

Brzezinski hints at another 9-11 in the making?

On Sunday, Zbigniew Brzezinski had an oped in the Los Angeles Times entitled "Been There, Done That" in which he compares the build-up to the Iraq war with the current hysteria about Iran, and examines the potential consequences of a war on Iran.

Yet another reason for the Iraq war?

I remember reading somewhere that the Bush I administration provided no less than 28 varying reasons for the first Gulf War .

Well, today Rumsfeld has said that the US occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan is crucial to "containing" Iran. I am not sure what this means - until now the Bush administration has said that it planned on evacuating its forces from both countries as soon as the host nations were stablized. They claimed that they weren't planning for a long-term military presence there. They even said that the invasion of Iraq was because of WMDs which didn't exist. Now, it turns out that the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan was part of a plan to contain Iran?

How many times can these guys change their story?

Nuclear attack on Iran

Potential consequences of a US attack with "earth penetrating" nuclear weapons on Iran: 3 million dead.

Yes folks, George Bush, the President of the United States of America, the Leader of the Free World, thinks that massacring 3 million innocent human beings is an "option".  And yet they say that Ahmadinejad is a dangerous nut!

So, who is really the "terrorst state" now?

Bush's threat of nuclear genocide is an international crime

IranAffairs.com 19 April 2006:

When asked about nuking Iran, Bush responded that "all options are on the table." Bush's threat to nuke Iran is an international war crime for which he should be indicted and put on trial. Iran should immediately file charges against him, and demand that the UN Security Council should act pursuant to Security Council Resolution 984 of 11 April 1995, to protect the world from Bush's genocidal threats.