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Showing Original Post only (View all)Why are DUers buying into this crap about Iran from the corporate media? [View all]
On another thread in LBN, I see people making jokes about Iran being upset that yet another U.S. aircraft carrier is moving into the Persian Gulf.
Look I know the Iranian government is oppressive to their own people, but they have not actually attacked anyone, nor do they seem ready to do so. Iran is arming up because it's surrounded on all sides by a country that considers it part of the axis of evil--along with Iraq and North Korea, and we all know what happened to Iraq.
(And who cares what Ahmadinejab says? His powers are limited, and he is term-limited out in 2013.)
If China started building up military bases in Canada and Mexico and sent aircraft carriers to the Caribbean, Atlantic, and Pacific coasts, wouldn't we be nervous?
The U.S. has troops in Iraq (no, they aren't all gone yet), Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan as well as carriers in the Persian Gulf. According to my world map, that amounts to SURROUNDED.
And if they didn't have oil, no one would even notice them, just as the corporate media paid no attention to the Taliban in Afghanistan until after they rejected the proposal to put an oil pipeline across their territory.
After all the disastrous and downright evil things the U.S. has done in Iraq and Afghanistan (torture of prisoners, extraordinary rendition without due process, rocket attacks on entire villages to kill one guy), why is ANYONE on DU apparently spoiling for a fight with Iran?