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Friday, September 22, 2006

Deja vu on Iran?

"Here we go again. The clichés come frighteningly easy when one ponders the recent efforts of the hawks to gin up the case for military confrontation with Iran. The playbook is familiar: Pump up the threat, use the media as a conveyor and watch public opinion swing toward war.

A campaign of this sort has been under way for weeks. In late August the staff of the GOP-led House Intelligence Committee released a report on Iran that depicted it as a pressing strategic danger. Iran 'probably' has a biological weapons program and 'likely' has a chemical weapons research and development program, it said ..."
The Nation

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