Banging the drum for war with IRAN

[FogerRox]

That Boy’s Still Crying Wolf

Two weeks ago, The National Post, a conservative Canadian daily, reported that the Iranian Parliament was voting on a law that would require all Muslims to wear traditional Islamic garments, and all non-Muslims to wear badges of various colors signifying their individual religion. This shocked many sensible people who noted the similarities between this and the Nazi law that forced German Jews to wear yellow stars of David in the 1930s. Rush Limbaugh spread the story on his syndicated radio show, and newly elected Canadian PM Stephen Harper publicly stated, “Iran is very capable of this type of action.”

The major problem with this report: not a word of it is true.

This was one of the rare instances where the mainstream press exposed a conspiracy before it could get going. Still, the blogosphere beat the majors to the punch, with many ‘conspiracy’ sites questioning and covering the case in situ. (Read excellent posts on the affair at CovertHistory and 23rd Mandalation).

Whole story:

http://23rd-mandalation.net/2006/05/28/that-boys-still-crying-wolf/

[ClintonTyree]

1. Typical.........

if there's no enemy, create one. Remember the babies in Kuwait that were viciously wrested from their incubators in the lead-up to Desert Storm? :eyes: Pure unadulterated bullshit as well. They're creating the enemy, painting them as heathens that have no sense of moral decency at all thus shocking and appalling Americans....softening them up for the war that is sure to ensue: if the bush regime has it's way, that is.

[FogerRox]

2. a bit more

Amir Taheri, the columnist who frist reported on the badges, is a client of Benador Associates, a public relations firm that represents a number of neocon interests, among them Richard Perle and former Director of Central Intelligence James Woolsey. In 2003, Eleana Benador, the company’s founder, pushed a number of op-ed columns into your local newspaper declaring that Iraq had full nuclear first strike capability, a rumor that mainstream media belatedly concedes was never true.

As the drum beats for an invasion of Iran, Benador and Taheri stand by the badge story. In a nonsensical rant full of bombast and evasion, Benador tried to convince a skeptical Bob Garfield of NPR’s On the Media that her company’s entire line of nationally sponsored terrorism stories was accurate–despite the fact that National Post Editor-in-Chief Douglas Kelly apologized for the article last Wednesday.

[tjwash]

3. BABIES TORN FROM INCUBATORS!! BABIES TORN FROM INCUBATORS!!

Remember that one, that they used to drum up a lynch mob for Iraq a few years ago, that also turned out to be a baldfaced lie?

[Supersedeas]

5. the Neocons are using the same crop to lay new seed

[lyonn]

4. Our Congress Critter need to ask our Prissy Pres

what his intentions are and that he is not to start the bombing, fly drones over Iran to stir things up, in other words make false pretenses for war as he has done in the past. Is that asking too much? Let's hope enough voters on the Hill will not let bush have his way.