In a move designed like the plot of a second-rate spy movie, Dick Cheney’s office has apparently activated its army of propaganda writing “robots” to begin promoting a war with Iran (can you identify which one is Bill Kristol?). I’m not sure whether Cheney activated these writers with a nationwide radio transmission or simply a conference call, but Barnett Rubin is reporting that his sources indicated the propaganda should be starting this week.
They [the source's institution] have “instructions” (yes, that was the word used) from the Office of the Vice-President to roll out a campaign for war with Iran in the week after Labor Day; it will be coordinated with the American Enterprise Institute, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, Commentary, Fox, and the usual suspects. It will be heavy sustained assault on the airwaves, designed to knock public sentiment into a position from which a war can be maintained. Evidently they don’t think they’ll ever get majority support for this–they want something like 35-40 percent support, which in their book is “plenty.” [source: Informed Comment Global Affairs]
The psy-ops campaign on Iran has been in full gear from George “Worst. President. Ever.” Bush for all of August and their strategy must be to now have others chime in supporting the administration’s claims. Good luck.
As I’ve noted many times, America should not be willing to trust these clowns in the White House with anything of substance anymore.
Like a broken, one-trick pony, the nation’s worst president ever, George W. Bush warned, in a speech today, that Iran’s pursuit of “technology that could lead to nuclear weapons threatens to put a region already known for instability and violence under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust.”