Hmmmmm....

I'm in the middle of reading The Lucifer Effect by Phillip Zimbardo. In it, he explains how leaders get the masses riled up for war by using propaganda, dehumanizing our soon-to-be enemy so that when we go kill their innocent civilians we won't put up a fuss. Sound familiar? Well, it should. It's what we have done leading up to every nasty thing we've ever done (in the open anyway). And it's going on right now where Iran is concerned. The War Criminal and friends are lying their asses off about Iran so they can bomb the crap out of them.

I would love to see Iran say, OK...we'll get rid of all our nuclear stuff. You win. It would leave Cheney with his pants around his ankles with no war to spank over.

Oh, here's one of those lies right now...supposedly, Iran is supporting Iraqi insurgents. Not true. This is from Juan Cole:

A treasure trove of guerrilla documents, according to the NYT, shows that 41% of the foreign jihadis in Iraq come from Saudi Arabia, which is also a major source of funding for them. Another big group comes from Libya, with Yemenis the third largest cohort. There were none from Lebanon, despite constant US accusations of Hizbullah involvement. Of the some 25,000 alleged insurgents in US custody in Iraq, only 390 are foreigners. 4/5s of the Iraqis and nearly all the foreigners are Sunni Arabs. (The US appears to have never captured a Shiite Iranian fighter in Iraq.) The statistics raise the question of why US military officials are always focusing on Iran and Hizbullah so much, when they clearly are not very much of the problem, while never, ever, mentioning the Saudi issue. The Guardian has more.

Doh!