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:
. . .
The rest is
at https://thehayride.com/2024/08/garlington-will-the-us-repeat-the-mistakes-of-iraq-in-iran/.
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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us
sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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