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Originally Posted by flappy
Something similar is happening over Iran: the same syncopation of government and media “revelations”, the same manufacture of a sense of crisis. “Showdown looms with Iran over secret nuclear plant”, declared the Guardian on 26 September. “Showdown” is the theme. High noon. The clock ticking. Good versus evil. Add a smooth new US president who has “put paid to the Bush years”. An immediate echo is the notorious Guardian front page of 22 May 2007: “Iran’s secret plan for summer offensive to force US out of Iraq”. Based on unsubstantiated claims by the Pentagon, the writer Simon Tisdall presented as fact an Iranian “plan” to wage war on, and defeat, US forces in Iraq by September of that year – a demonstrable falsehood for which there has been no retraction.
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funny, on the very same day iran agreed to allow inspections of their newly revealed secret enrichment facility:
BBC NEWS | Middle East | US welcomes Iran inspection offer
and why are you quoting something from 2 years ago that never happened? doesn't really help your case much, i'm quite confused.
edit- ah i see you were pointing out the pentagon's scare tactics. still don't see the point in bringing it up. if it couldn't work then, what helps their case now?
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Originally Posted by flappy
Your outrage over a copy and paste should have been directed against those who are ready to start a war in Iran.
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who's ready to start war in iran? haven't we been "ready" ever since bush singled iran out among his "axis of evil?" that was seven years ago, well before the failure (in regard to both its public and secret purposes) that was/is the iraq invasion. somehow i don't think anyone is ready for war with iran, and while that might be the way the fear/propaganda machine is leading there's not now and never was (even in years past when our president was using inflammatory rhetoric nearly every chance he got) enough behind it to consummate the hope for war.
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Originally Posted by flappy
You motherfuckers will be crying the most when gasoline hits $ 8/gallon due to the closing of the Gulf of Hormuz.
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if that happens it might be exactly what we need. the last time gas shot up everyone i know was driving a hell of a lot less because of it. if it went even higher people might be inclined to buy goods locally instead of depending on cross-country freightliners. might even bolster local economies which have been slumping.
omg how crazy!!1! i wish i could buy the fear, i really do. it sounds so much easier to just cry about stuff.