Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Offsite Post: ‘Will the US Repeat the Mistakes of Iraq in Iran?’

 

One hears talk amongst various people on the Right in the US that there is a sort of ‘awakening’ going on, that people’s eyes are opening to the fraud of the Deep State.  We may soon get a chance to test that hypothesis vis-à-vis Iran.

An article making the rounds that ran in the New York Post and elsewhere claims that Iran’s government is targeting Donald Trump for assassination (we saw it referenced at Newsmax and just recently here at The Hayride; its content also got a mention on American Ground Radio on 27 Aug.).  This sort of inflammatory claim is exactly what the States were force-fed for months leading up to the Iraq War in 2003.  20+ years ago it was a Pakistani venture-capitalist gadfly named Mansoor Ijaz who was spewing the pro-war propaganda.  He made himself a permanent fixture on nightly cable news shows like Greta Van Susteren’s on Fox News, dressed in a hooded cloak while standing against a building on a dark, deserted street so none of Saddam Hussein’s henchmen would know where to find him (so we were made to believe, anyway), the better to convince us what a brave, intrepid fellow he was (supposedly he was in some Middle Eastern city or another, but just as likely on a Hollywood soundstage; US military psy-ops via TV/film are nothing new).

While LARPing as a cloak-and-dagger spy, he was gravely assuring everyone that Saddam was a threat to the region and the world because of his WMD, etc.  Mr Ijaz’s interviews and essays were long on ‘facts’ like this one:


Biological weapons. Fox News’ embedded reporter, Rick Leventhal, downloaded incredible video of what may be the first of Saddam’s bioweapons labs on wheels. He reported that in a U-Haul-sized truck disguised as a radar facility for mobile surface-to-air missiles, a false panel revealed electronic pulleys, winches, storage bins, and refrigerators which could easily be used to store biological-weapons stashes (refrigeration being the key identifier because you certainly don’t need refrigerators to freeze the rocket launcher). Tests will determine definitively whether there are any biological residues or not.

The tests didn’t pan out.  Saddam wasn’t nearly the threat he was built up to be by Mr Ijaz and other mouthpieces of the military-industrial complex (MIC).  In spite of that, neither he nor anyone else involved in the Iraq disaster (in which the US are still involved 21 years later) was held accountable in any meaningful way.  Mr Ijaz in fact went on to embarrass himself even further by meddling in Pakistan’s internal politics several years after helping launch the Iraq War.

In 2024 Iran has replaced Iraq as the country in the War Party’s crosshairs, and Mr Ijaz has been replaced by another wealthy analyst, the Lebanese Dr Walid Phares, the author of the article mentioned at the outset who is painting lurid word-pictures about Iranian assassination plots and WMD plans.  The latter has connections that should make us question his reliability.  The first is his open admission to ties to the MIC.  From his own web site:


Dr Phares was an advisory board member of the Task Force on Future Terrorism of the US Department of Homeland Security (2005-2007) and a member of the NSC advisory task force on Nuclear Terrorism (2006-2007)

 

Dr Phares has also lectured to and advised the US Departments of Justice, Defense, and Homeland Security, as well as regional commands such as CENTCOM, SOUTHCOM, AFRICOM, on academic research on Terrorism. He has served as an expert on Terrorism with the US and European Governments and briefed law enforcement agencies, including INTERPOL since 2003.

The second is similar:  his decade-long work for a think tank, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (also openly listed on the same page linked just above), which is very vocal in its support of an interventionist US foreign policy.  The Foundation also has a strong pro-Israeli, anti-Iranian stance, which likewise calls into question the objectivity of Dr Phares’s reporting.

It is necessary to place all of this in its proper context:  the long-term plans of the DC Elite to maintain the US as the world’s unquestioned imperialistic hegemon at any cost, including war.  General Wesley Clark brought their plans out into the open shortly after the Iraq War began in 2003:

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The rest is at https://thehayride.com/2024/08/garlington-will-the-us-repeat-the-mistakes-of-iraq-in-iran/.

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