Netanyahu LIED ABOUT IRAQ's WMDs, Now He’s Saying the Same Things About Iran
Netanyahu has been saying the same things about Iran that he incorrectly said about Iraq in 2002 as he sold the Iraq war to the U.S. Congress. Republicans are trying to
place Netanyahu in charge of U.S. foreign policy with Iran, which is the foreign policy equivalent of making Bush the president again. In 2012, Juan Cole went back to 2002 to point out that
Netanyahu was saying the same inaccurate fear-mongering stuff about Iran that he said about Iraq.
Sound familiar? Yeah, more deliberately distorted intelligence and rumor mongering and building a media case based on bread crumbs left by the frightened and the disingenuous. A little fact checking from Juan Cole (who gave a h/t to Washington Blog):
There was no Iraqi nuclear weapons program in 2002; it was dismantled in the early 1990s by United Nations inspectors. There were none of the chemical or biological weapons Netanyahu spoke of. No Russians. No North Koreans. Bupkes.
Netanyahu also warned that Iraq would give nuclear warheads
(which it did not have) to “terrorist groups.”
He also argued that no inspections could possibly find “mobile weapons sites” (which are impossible),
implying that invasion and occupation was the only course open.
Netanyahu proved that neither he nor the Israeli intelligence organization, Mossad, had the slightest actual intelligence on Iraq, and that neither should be trusted to provide such intelligence to the US. Clearly, some right wing Israeli leaders always want the US entangled in regional wars in the Middle East, insofar as they are seeking US support in a hostile region. They therefore habitually exaggerate the dangers, and are little more than bullsh*t artists.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/09/israel-versus-iran-whats-really-going-on.html
Republicans in Congress are trying to equate PM Benjamin Netanyahu with Israel, but that is like saying that George W Bush is the United States. So if you disagree with Bush, you disagree with America. Well, that’s just it. Republicans often maintain the position that to disagree with them is to hate an entire country. But they do not own the U.S. and they do not own Israel.
Netanyahu is no more Israel than Bush is the United States. In fact,
Bush and Netanyahu are the same slice of the pie in these two separate countries. And that’s exactly why Republicans went around the Democratic President in order to invite Netanyahu to sell his fear-mongering foreign policy to Congress while the President is trying to negotiate nuclear disarming with Iran.
This is like Bush being in charge of our foreign policy again.
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http://www.politicususa.com/2015/02/10/republicans-netanhayu-charge-u-s-foreign-policy-bush.html
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