sshhh ... they think everyone forgets On Sep 29, 8:35 am, "M. Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote: > IraqIran Has WMD!!Another War in the WorksAmerica Is Led and Informed by > Liarsby Paul Craig Roberts > Does anyone remember all the lies that they were told by President Bush and > the "mainstream media" about the grave threat to America from weapons of mass > destruction in Iraq? These lies were repeated endlessly in the print and TV > media despite the reports from the weapons inspectors, who had been sent to > Iraq, that no such weapons existed. > The weapons inspectors did an honest job in Iraq and told the truth, but the > mainstream media did not emphasize their findings. Instead, the media served > as a Ministry of Propaganda, beating the war drums for the US government. > Now the whole process is repeating itself. This time the target is Iran. > As there is no real case against Iran, Obama took a script from Bush’s > playbook and fabricated one. > First the facts: As a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty, Iran’s > nuclear facilities are open to inspection by the International Atomic Energy > Agency, which carefully monitors Iran’s nuclear energy program to make > certain that no material is diverted to nuclear weapons. > The IAEA has monitored Iran’s nuclear energy program and has announced > repeatedly that it has found no diversion of nuclear material to a weapons > program. All 16 US intelligence agencies have affirmed and reaffirmed that > Iran abandoned interest in nuclear weapons years ago. > In keeping with the safeguard agreement that the IAEA be informed before an > enrichment facility comes online, Iran informed the IAEA on September 21 that > it had a new nuclear facility under construction. By informing the IAEA, Iran > fulfilled its obligations under the safeguards agreement. The IAEA will > inspect the facility and monitor the nuclear material produced to make sure > it is not diverted to a weapons program. > Despite these unequivocal facts, Obama announced on September 25 that Iran > has been caught with a "secret nuclear facility" with which to produce a bomb > that would threaten the world. > The Obama regime’s claim that Iran is not in compliance with the safeguards > agreement is disinformation. Between the end of 2004 and early 2007, Iran > voluntarily complied with an additional protocol (Code 3.1) that was never > ratified and never became a legal part of the safeguards agreement. The > additional protocol would have required Iran to notify the IAEA prior to > beginning construction of a new facility, whereas the safeguards agreement in > force requires notification prior to completion of a new facility.Iran ceased > its voluntary compliance with the unratified additional protocol in March > 2007, most likely because of the American and Israeli misrepresentations of > Iran’s existing facilities and military threats against them. > By accusing Iran of having a secret "nuclear weapons program" and demanding > that Iran "come clean" about the nonexistent program, adding that he does not > rule out a military attack on Iran, Obama mimics the discredited Bush > regime’s use of nonexistent Iraqi "weapons of mass destruction" to set up > Iraq for invasion. > The US media, even the "liberal" National Public Radio, quickly fell in with > the Obama lie machine. Steven Thomma of the McClatchy Newspapers declared the > non-operational facility under construction, which Iran reported to the IAEA, > to be "a secret nuclear facility." > Thomma, reported incorrectly that the world didn’t learn of Iran’s "secret" > facility, the one that Iran reported to the IAEA the previous Monday, until > Obama announced it in a joint appearance in Pittsburgh the following Friday > with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas > Sarkoszy. > Obviously, Thomma has no command over the facts, a routine inadequacy of > "mainstream media" reporters. The new facility was revealed when Iran > voluntarily reported the facility to the IAEA on September 21. > Ali Akbar Dareini, an Associated Press writer, reported, incorrectly, over > AP: "The presence of a second uranium-enrichment site that could potentially > produce material for a nuclear weapon has provided one of the strongest > indications yet that Iran has something to hide." > Dareini goes on to write that "the existence of the secret site was first > revealed by Western intelligence officials and diplomats on Friday." Dareini > is mistaken. We learned of the facility when the IAEA announced that Iran had > reported the facility the previous Monday in keeping with the safeguards > agreement. > Dareini’s untruthful report of "a secret underground uranium enrichment > facility whose existence has been hidden from international inspectors for > years" helped to heighten the orchestrated alarm. > There you have it. The president of the United States and his European > puppets are doing what they do best – lying through their teeth. The US > "mainstream media" repeats the lies as if they were facts. The US "media" is > again making itself an accomplice to wars based on fabrications. Apparently, > the media’s main interest is to please the US government and hopefully obtain > a taxpayer bailout of its failing print operations. > Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy > Agency, a rare man of principle who has not sold his integrity to the US and > Israeli governments, refuted in his report (September 7, 2009) the baseless > "accusations that information has been withheld from the Board of Governors > about Iran’s nuclear programme. I am dismayed by the allegations of some > Member states, which have been fed to the media, that information has been > withheld from the Board. These allegations are politically motivated and > totally baseless. Such attempts to influence the work of the Secretariat and > undermine its independence and objectivity are in violation of Article VII.F. > of the IAEA Statute and should cease forthwith." > As there is no legal basis for action against Iran, the Obama regime is > creating another hoax, like the non-existent "Iraqi weapons of mass > destruction." The hoax is that a facility, reported to the IAEA by Iran, is a > secret facility for making nuclear weapons. > Just as the factual reports from the weapons inspectors in Iraq were ignored > by the Bush Regime, the factual reports from the IAEA are ignored by the > Obama Regime. > Like the Bush Regime, the Middle East policy of the Obama Regime is based in > lies and deception. > Who is the worst enemy of the American people, Iran or the government in > Washington and the media whores who serve > it?http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts273.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum
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