Is Iran, like Iraq, 'Asking for War'?

Is Iran, like Iraq, 'Asking for War'?

By William Blum
August 4, 2010
Consortium News


If and when the United States and Israel bomb Iran (marking the sixth country so blessed by Barack Obama) – and this sad old world has a new daily horror show to look at on their TV sets – and we then discover that Iran was not actually building nuclear weapons after all, the American mainstream media and the benighted American mind will ask: "Why didn't they tell us that? Did they want us to bomb them?"

The same questions were asked about Iraq following the discovery that Saddam Hussein didn't in fact have any weapons of mass destruction. However, in actuality, before the U.S. invasion Iraqi officials had stated clearly on repeated occasions that they had no such weapons.

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