Laura Logan's War Propaganda:
CBS "Report" on "Iranian aggression" against the US.
CBS Radio, Weekend Roundup: Tensions with Iran, CBS, 07/11/2008
CBS Radio, Weekend Roundup: Tensions with Iran, CBS, 07/11/2008
alex, 7-13-08
CBS has not failed to deliver the lies and manipulations of our corporate government dressed up as "news," once again. This was the same game plan they used to run us into the criminal Iraq War.
In this case, CBS and their Corporate Mouthpiece Lara Logan passed two of the critical lies our corporate government needs us to believe about the situation with Iran to justify and promote an Iranian war to the American people.
The first, and most outrageous lie that CBS told for our lying corporate government is that Iran is the "aggressor" in the middle east. Nothing can be further from the truth. Logan stated that, "Clearly, moving forward with their nuclear program makes them (Iran) the aggressors."
Logan apparently has failed to notice that our illegal invasion of Iraq defines the US as the most dangerous "aggressor" in the region. Despite the violent threats of the Bush Administration to nuke Iran, and our illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq, Logan and CBS seem unable to clearly grasp or present the facts on the ground that are driving the crisis in the middle east: Western Colonialism is finished in the middle east, and our kings, dictators, emirs, and other puppet US governments are seeing their last days of life.
Independent of the lies and propaganda spouted by Bush and CBS, the Iranians have every right under international law and treaty to enrich uranium. Period, end of story.
The aggressor in this situation is clearly the US, who is attempting to unilaterally alter international treaty to deny Iran their clear right to enrich uranium. Logan's imprecise use of the term "nuclear program" also conviently fails to differeniate between nuclear power and nuclear weapons programs.
Why is CBS lying? Because our misguided war and defeat in Iraq has empowered Iran as the most powerful and influential nation in the middle east, with or without nuclear weapons. As our failed Iraqi war has empowered Iran, we have seized onto Iran's legitimate and lawful development of nuclear power as a flimsy excuse to attack Iran in order to deny them the strategic fruits of our defeats in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In reality, despite Israel's threats and carping, there is no proof that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons. The last National Security Estimate produced by US intelligence agencies backs this up, claiming that Iran abandoned efforts to accquire nukes or nuke weapons tech years ago.
Logan put the cherry on top of her pie of lies when she stated that, (Iran's People are) "united, on one issue, they believe that Iran has the right to nuclear weapons." Combined with her misrepresentation of international law, and her misuse of the phrase "nuclear program," Logan has constructed a threat and a crisis where none exists.
On top of these misrepresentations, Logan failed to note that the grand ayatollah offically banned nuclear weapons, and that every political and religious authority in Iran has declared nukes "immoral," while calling for a completely nuclear weapons free middle east.
It appears that the Iranians are not only correct about the immorality of nuclear weapons, but their desire for a nuclear free middle east is the most responsible position among the countries vieing to end US hegomony over the region.
Defining nukes as immoral, and ridding the middle east of nuclear weapons does not fit our program, which allows those who obey our empire to illegally possess nukes with our full support, while those who do not obey are threatened with being nuked.
To recap the CBS lies, Logan told the American People that Iran is moving forward with their nuclear program, that their people believe they have the right to develop the bomb, and these "facts" make Iran the "aggressor."
The opposite is in fact true: Iran has no weapons program, their people are not calling for one, and the real rogue nations that illegally developed and possess nuclear weapons are all American Allies.
The real rogue nations who have illegally accquired nukes, Israel, Pakistan, and India are all American allies who's illegal weapons programs have been protected and improved by US power.
The situation is almost exactly the opposite of the dire situation described by Logan on CBS: The aggressors in the middle east are the US and Israel. Our contribution being our criminal invasion of Iraq, and our unrestrained support of Israel, who's fifty year crime spree against international and human rights law was recently highlighted by their criminal attack on Lebanon last year, and their declaring Gaza a "hostile entity," and witholding food and medicine against international law.
There are only two dire threats against peace in the middle east: The US and Israel.
CBS did an excellent job of lying to the American People leading up the the Iraqi war, and now they are prepairing the public with the propaganda lies required to launch another criminal war, this time against Iran.
After listening to their lies we are left with the mistaken impression that we have few options other than "defending" ourselves from this "aggression," apparently by turing the "invisible war" we are waging against Iran into a real, visible war.
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