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Willravel · 09-26-2009, 09:23 AM

I'm sure everyone has seen the announcement by President Obama that Iran has a secret nuclear-enriching facility. Here's the video:

The problem, of course, is that there is evidence that this facility was disclosed some time ago, and Iran’s nuclear chief has already said in no uncertain terms that IAEA would be allowed to visit the facility.

In other words, to quote Middle East policy analyst Gareth Porter, "This is very far from a smoking gun, certainly with regard to Iranian intentions as far as nuclear weapons are concerned and also to the capablity of manufacturing a nuclear weapon."

I find myself thinking back to 2002 and 2003, as unsubstantiated information was being spoon fed from the government to the corporate media, which was then sold to the people as hard facts. Donald Rumsfeld outright said, "We know where the WMDs are" on March 30, 2003. He was lying through his shit-eating grin. It's the same thing now, apparently. We get wild, seemingly conclusive claims regarding a threat with nonspecific and unverified evidence.

There's no way in hell we're doing this again, right? There's no way the American public is that stupid, that we'd make the exact same mistake twice in one decade? We still have soldiers dying in Iraq, for christ's sake.

09-26-2009, 09:23 AM	#1 (permalink)
Willravel ... a sort of licensed troubleshooter.	Iran as a Nuclear Threat Revisited I'm sure everyone has seen the announcement by President Obama that Iran has a secret nuclear-enriching facility. Here's the video: The problem, of course, is that there is evidence that this facility was disclosed some time ago, and Iran’s nuclear chief has already said in no uncertain terms that IAEA would be allowed to visit the facility. In other words, to quote Middle East policy analyst Gareth Porter, "This is very far from a smoking gun, certainly with regard to Iranian intentions as far as nuclear weapons are concerned and also to the capablity of manufacturing a nuclear weapon." I find myself thinking back to 2002 and 2003, as unsubstantiated information was being spoon fed from the government to the corporate media, which was then sold to the people as hard facts. Donald Rumsfeld outright said, "We know where the WMDs are" on March 30, 2003. He was lying through his shit-eating grin. It's the same thing now, apparently. We get wild, seemingly conclusive claims regarding a threat with nonspecific and unverified evidence. There's no way in hell we're doing this again, right? There's no way the American public is that stupid, that we'd make the exact same mistake twice in one decade? We still have soldiers dying in Iraq, for christ's sake.