The clip above shows how Fox News in the US is using the same, now debunked and discredited, arguments it used to convince the US public for invading Iraq in 2003 to convince the US public today to attack Iran.
Attacking Iran would be one of the worst mistakes the US could make, it would be devastating to their interests in the region and in the long run only plays into the hands of America's enemies. Iran's current president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is not very popular these days with his own people, attacking Iran would change all that and rally the Iran people behind Ahmadinejad thereby undermining the US's ,in my view legitimate, objective to discredit that crazy little man.
This blogger suspects that if Bush is planning to attack Iran he will do it next year in September, October, November when the US elections are being head. This way he could, in theory, get it through congress and the senate by using the presidential elections as a distraction. As half of congress will be running for election/re-election they will be to busy campaigning to stop it or fight it properly. Enabling Bush to push it through.
For more information on the clip above or if you are interested in the Open Letter then check out this site: http://foxattacks.com/iran
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kevinwilson
- 2007-08-23 @ 18:43:31
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Ark-888
- http://vuvuzela.blog.co.uk/
- 2007-08-23 @ 18:48:45
I really hope the US does not but the way in which the US media, on the political right like Fox, are being mobilised to justify an attack and judging from the sounds coming out of the White House these days, it looks likely.
In 2003, when news networks like Fox were making a case for the war in Iraq they succeeded in creating an atmosphere so poisonous and were so successful at making the case that any one who was opposed to the war in the US was considered to be almost as bad as a traitor. -
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notsteph
- 2007-08-28 @ 13:51:19
I'm sure they'd love to invade Iran, but they're just not in a position to get it done, so we can relax a bit.
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AlvarezGalloso
- 2007-08-31 @ 17:07:53
The few times I have seen Fox News, [as well as other stations in the USA] they have created an atmosphere of polarization in America in which people who were once friends now call each other traitors. Those who are not Republicans or Democrats are considered subversive. I know. Many people I know are Republicans and Democrats and when I bring up my viewpoint as a Libertarian, either I am classified as a "possessed demon" or "traitor". My response has been to say that they are in the same wavelength as Mugabe, Castro, Chavez, and Kim Jong Il.
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makes me want to go into a corner and hide, just thinking about it.
he wouldn't..would he?