FOX Attacks: War With Iran?
Update: Head over to the Huff Post to read an article by Senator Bernie Sanders (doesn’t that sound nice?) about this video and his critically important bill to require congressional approval before any kind of military action against Iran. (h/t IamGadfly)
An important, just-released video from Brave New Films shows how Fox News is again acting as a mouthpiece for an administration determined to go to war — this time with Iran. Kucinich has been warning about this scenario since 2002, and among presidential candidates and members of Congress he has taken the most forceful and consistent stand against the administration’s secretive push to war.
Fearless reporters like Seymour Hersh at The New Yorker have been writing about this issue for years, but in recent weeks even mainstream publications like TIME Magazine have joined in exposing the administration’s plans for war. Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer and Middle East expert, virtually echoed Kucinich’s warnings from the previous week when he reported this past Saturday in TIME that:
“Reports that the Bush Administration will put Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terrorism list can be read in one of two ways: it’s either more bluster or, ominously, a wind-up for a strike on Iran. Officials I talk to in Washington vote for a hit on the IRGC, maybe within the next six months…
Strengthening the Administration’s case for a strike on Iran, there’s a belief among neo-cons that the IRGC is the one obstacle to democratic and a friendly Iran. They believe that if we were to get rid of the IRGC, the clerics would fall, and our thirty-years war with Iran over. It’s another neo-con delusion, but still it informs White House thinking.
And what do we do if just the opposite happens — a strike on Iran unifies Iranians behind the regime? An Administration official told me it’s not even a consideration. “IRGC IED’s are a casus belli for this administration. There will be an attack on Iran.”"
Everyone in their right mind knows that military action against Iran would be a disaster — for the U.S., for the people of Iran (who are as pro-American as any population in the Middle East), and for the international community. Yet Kucinich and Gravel and Ron Paul, the candidates most often referred to as “crazy,” are the only presidential hopefuls taking a forceful stand. Will the American people stand with them?
Filed under: Politics, Kucinich, News, Video on August 22nd, 2007
And Ron Paul. He’s been writing against war with Iran for years at antiwar.com
You’re right — sometimes I forget Paul is running for president as a Republican because his views are so antithetical to the other Rep. candidates. I added him to the short list of candidates speaking out forcefully against war with Iran.
That’s a very well done video. Side-by-side comparisons and clips of Fox News are always very convincing. I think video messages are probably the most effective way of getting across ideas to people (at least large segments of the youth who would prefer to watch something rather than read it).
Check out Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Huffington Post article about this video.
He’s also proposing a bill that would require congressional approval before military action is taken with Iran.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-bernie-sanders/fox-attacks-iran_b_61578.html