[kj] (OT) Iran/USA/Nuclear Weapons

[GregSlawson at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/13/2006 9:51:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
circuit_bender at yahoo.com writes:

> Spoken like a true newsreel, Peter.
>  'Iranian problem'. That's one powerful metonym.
>  Follow the Leader anyone?
> 

The US/UK media are giddy with excitement over people like Peter. Iran 
threatens to start selling oil/gas in Euros instead of US dollars, and they 
conveniently make up stories about Iran being a nuclear military threat, even though 
Iran can't even create a simple nuclear power plant. They report daily on 
Iranian Islamic fanaticsm, even though the US supplied the Ayatollah with arms 
throughout the 80s, and the CIA provided training for the equally fanatical 
fundamentalist Mujadeen (including Bin Laden), so they could fight the old Soviet 
Union (during the 70s, i believe). They do their best to get the Americans into 
an anti-arab hysteria, and people like Peter lap it up. 
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