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Sunday on This Week, Senator Graham delivered the neocon talking points with an emphatic call for regime change in Iran.
George Stephanopoulos provided no proper introduction of Senator Graham’s abysmal record on such matters, much less the USA’s record on regime change in Iran. The Senator is a politician who has always championed regime change somewhere, anywhere, and he has always been bloody wrong. He repeats the word peaceful, but has never in his life managed to work for peace outside of military conflict, usually conflicts based on lies. Graham, an ardent supporter of legalized torture designed to garner more lies, can never be a man of peace. That ship sailed long ago.
When the neocons call for peaceful regime change, Americans should consider themselves warned. George Stephanopoulos should check out wikipedia and count the millions of lives Senator Graham’s war and torture votes alone have destroyed. Then George should try to count how many people found peace due to neocon or neoliberal policies.
E-mail George Stephonopolous here, and tell him this kind of journalism kills innocent people. It’s time to call out this type of subversive war-fevered public relations gig early and often, or history will repeat itself.
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Thank you for this important diary.
Speaking of gasoline, a committee in the House of Representatives today voted to interfere with Iran’s gasoline imports and its domestic energy sector.(AP)The same as what the US did to cause the overthrow of the democratically elected leader and the instalment of the Shah. History is repeating itself.
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http://rawstory.com/news/afp/U…..32009.html
” Written in 1954 by one of the coup’s chief planners, the history details how United States and British officials plotted the military coup that returned the shah of Iran to power and toppled Iran’s elected prime minister, an ardent nationalist. “
http://www.nytimes.com/library…..index.html
Yup, what the U.S. needs right now is another war in the Middle East. Sounds to me like Sissy Graham and the rest of the saber-rattling neo-cons act tough on national security just to make up for certain personal inadequacies.
bluebutterfly
The US has been interfering with Iranian access to gasoline for years by disallowing oilfield equipment to be sold there. Freezing their bank accounts in a time when the international banking system is on the verge of collapse from collapse of trade and vast holdings of U.S. dollars abroad amounting to years of GDP would seem rash – but it’s been done for years. Just the other day the U.K. tied up another $1.6 bn worth of Iranian deposits.
Would Russia set up a nuclear threat in its own backyard ? That’s what the purveyors of Iraq WMD would have us believe about fusion – not fission – tech they set up and supply fuel for in Iran.
The domestic infrastructure of Iraq, Somalia and more were destroyed. Disease is rife because clean water is not available – sewage is untreated.
The smell in Iraq is even reported in the MSMs propaganda about how great things are there. Lack of doctors/hospitals and professors/universities make any talk of recovery farcial.
Iran’s neighbours are assaulted by the U.S. : Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan. Their military and government officials are known targets of black ops.
Lately I’ve come across reports of a $400 million CIA campaign to use Twitter to gin up public outrage over violence in Iran ( similar problems in Africa and even the US suddenly give no context ). Yesterday came the next step amid escalating b.s. about democratic freedom from the thieves of government ( corporate sponsored representatives ) : the Shah’s son ( yeah. The puppet tyrant put in place they overthrew in 1979 ) would like Israel to help him overthrow the Iranian mullahs.
The bullshit is so thick I wonder anyone can breathe.