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Neocons One Step Closer to
Attacking Iran
Kurt
Nimmo
Monday Aug 27, 2007
As should be expected, the neocons have shifted from one
preposterous lie to another in order to prepare the way for eventually
inflicting mass murder, mayhem, and misery on the people of Iran.
“In an effort to build congressional and Pentagon support
for military options against Iran, the Bush administration has
shifted from its earlier strategy of building a case based on
an alleged Iranian nuclear weapons program to one invoking improvised
explosive devices (IEDs) purportedly manufactured in Iran that
are killing US soldiers in Iraq,” writes Larisa
Alexandrovna of Raw Story. “According to officials—including
two former Central Intelligence Agency case officers with experience
in the Middle East—the administration believes that by focusing
on the alleged ties between IEDs and Iran, they can link the Iranian
government directly to attacks on US forces in Iraq.”
Call it aluminum tubes redux. No doubt, in two or three years,
after Iran suffers the horrific fate of Iraq, there will once
again be rumblings in the media that the Iran IED accusations
were not only baseless, but yet another primary example of the
duplicitous nature of the neocons. Recall, as well, that the last
time around the CIA argued that 100,000 high-strength aluminum
tubes Iraq allegedly attempted to purchase demonstrated Saddam
Hussein was feverishly and methodically working toward the objective
of nuking grade school kids in Pocatello, Idaho. Of course, it
did not matter at the time that technical experts from the Department
of Energy’s Oak Ridge, Livermore, and Los Alamos National Laboratories,
as well as the International Atomic Energy Agency, found this
claim ludicrous.
(Article continues below)
Indeed, the entire “case” against Saddam Hussein
was fixed around the “policy,” that is to say the
neocon plan to mass murder extraordinary numbers of helpless and
enfeebled Iraqis, emerging from the barbarity of more than a decade
of medieval sanctions, a regime that cost over a million lives—more
than 500,000 of them children—well “worth it,”
as Clinton’s former secretary of state, Madeleine Albright,
infamously averred.
In 2005, Bush admitted to employing Hitler’s Big Lie, that
is to say a series of lies so “colossal,” as Hitler
explained in his 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf, that the public
accepts all manner of crimes in their names by way of willful
ignorance. “See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating
things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in,
to kind of catapult the propaganda,” said Bush, obviously
taking his cue cards from the neocons.
Now we have the Big Lie in regard to Iran, as preposterous and
nonsensical as Iraq’s illusory weapons of mass destruction.
“The US military has provided credible evidence that the
specialized IEDs known as explosively formed penetrators (EFPs),
which have been killing US troops in Iraq, appear to have been
manufactured in Iran. Intelligence and military officials caution,
however, that there is nothing tying the weapons directly to the
Iranian government, nor is there a direct evidentiary chain of
custody linking the IEDs to Iran,” Alexandrovna continues.
Even so, this “is viewed by some in the Bush Administration
as sufficient justification for taking military action against
Iran,” that is to say “sufficient justification”
to butcher Iranian grandmothers and toddlers.
“The origins of the [IED] theme of Iranian complicity strongly
suggest that it was a propaganda line aimed at reducing the Bush
administration’s acute embarrassment at its inability to
stop the growing death toll of U.S. troops from shaped charges
fired at armored vehicles by Sunni insurgents,” notes Gareth
Porter. “The U.S. command admitted at first that the
Sunnis were making the shaped charges themselves. On Jun. 21,
2005, Gen. John R. Vines, then the senior U.S. commander in Iraq,
told reporters that the insurgents had probably drawn on bomb-making
expertise from former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein’s army,”
not the Iranians.
But never mind—the neocons can count on the fact the average
American does not know the difference between a Sunni and a Shi’ite,
the former engaged in resistance and the later not, preferring
instead—with the exception of Muqtada al-Sadr’s militia
and a handful of other Shia renegades—to fence sit and even
participate in the U.S. imposed puppet government.
As usual, in now standard neocon fashion, the original story
of the resistance manufacturing the IEDs morphed into Iranian
complicity. Bush and the neocons—or rather the neocons—made
the decision “to start blaming its new problem in Iraq on
Tehran. On Aug. 4, 2005, Pentagon and intelligence officials leaked
the story to NBC and CBS that U.S. troops had ‘intercepted’
dozens of shaped charges said to have been ’smuggled into
northeastern Iraq only last week’” and the “NBC
story quoted intelligence officials as saying they believed the
IEDs were shipped into Iraq by Iranian Revolutionary Guards or
Hezbollah, but were ‘convinced it could not have happened
without the full consent of the Iranian government.’”
In short, it was a big enough lie to begin a process that will
result in thousands of dead Iranians and yet another depleted
uranium killing field.
“A senior intelligence official told Raw Story Tuesday
that the CIA had stepped up operations in the region, shifting
their Iran focus to ‘other’ approaches in preference
to the ‘black propaganda’ that Raw Story ‘has
already reported on,’” explains Alexandrovna. “The
source would not elaborate on what these ‘other’ approaches
are,” although this should be a no-brainer.
No doubt at least a few people in Iran understand what happens
when the CIA shifts it focus. “The CIA did exactly what
was asked of it in Iran, deposing a mildly nationalist regime
that was a minor irritant to US policymakers,” writes Mark
Zepezauer. “In 1951, Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, “the
most popular politician in the country,” was elected Prime
Minister of Iran. His major election plank was the nationalization
of the only oil company operating in Iran at that time-British
Petroleum. The nationalization bill was passed unanimously by
the Iranian Parliament…. Though Mossadegh offered BP considerable
compensation, his days were numbered from that point on. The British
coordinated an international economic embargo of Iran, throwing
its economy into chaos. And the CIA, at the request of the British,
began spending millions of dollars on ways to get rid of Mossadegh,”
resulting in the installation of Reza Pahlavi, the son of a Nazi
collaborator. Pahlavi the lesser unleashed SAVAK, a secret police
force with “the worst human rights record on the planet,
and that the number and variety of torture techniques the CIA
had taught SAVAK were ‘beyond belief.’”
Iran has plenty of company, however. Since the “national
security” organization was established in the late 1940s,
it has sabotaged governments in Guatemala, Hungary, Laos, Haiti,
the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Brazil, Greece, the Congo (now
Zaire), Bolivia, Cambodia, Chile, Angola, Afghanistan, El Salvador,
Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama, Iraq, and elsewhere.
“There’s a lesson in all of this,” John
Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1976, reflected
nearly two decades ago. “And the lesson is that it isn’t
only Gestapo maniacs, or KGB maniacs, that do inhuman things to
other people, it’s people that do inhuman things to other
people. And we are responsible for doing these things, on a massive
basis, to people of the world today. And we do it in a way that
gives us this plausible denial to our own consciences; we create
a CIA, a secret police, we give them a vast budget, and we let
them go and run these programs in our name, and we pretend like
we don’t know it’s going on, although the information
is there for us to know… And we’re just as responsible
for these 1 to 3 million people we’ve slaughtered and for
all the people we’ve tortured and made miserable, as the
Gestapo was the people that they’ve slaughtered and killed.”
Indeed, “we are responsible for doing these things,”
and we will be responsible for whatever nastiness the neocons
inflict on the Iranian people, as we have allowed these psychopaths
to take over the government, same as the Nazis seized the reigns
of control before them.
Of course, if one is plugged into Borg News, and is more concerned
about allegations of abuse on the “reality show” Kid
Nation, he or she cannot be said to be responsible—as responsiblity
requires a conscience—or even cognizant, for that matter.
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