Iran: Another United States War Of Aggression?? By Jacob G. Hornberger
(2018-07-23 at 10:34:25 )

Iran: Another United States War of Aggression?? by Jacob G. Hornberger

I am getting that Iraq deja vu feeling again, only this time with respect to Iran.

You will recall the build-up to the United States war of aggression against Iraq: Weapons of Mass Destruction. Mushroom clouds. Charts and graphs. Preventive war.

The anti-Iraq propaganda from United States officials was overwhelming, so much so that by the time United States officials initiated their war of aggression against Iraq, many Americans had completely accepted the notion that the United States was an innocent victim about to come under nuclear attack from Saddam Hussein and that the United States government needed to initiate a massive military attack and invasion of Iraq in order to defend the United States.

Of course, as everyone learned afterward, the propaganda was entirely bogus. There were no Weapons of Mass Destruction and even if there were, the last thing that Iraq was doing to do with them was start a war against the most powerful military in history.

The entire propaganda build-up was designed to get the American people on board with a war of aggression and not ask too many questions.

President Trump just issued one of his infamous midnight tweets, this one telling Iranian officials (with caps in the original):

"NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!!"

President Trump was responding to a speech on Sunday delivered by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urging President Trump to "make peace" with Iran.

What was the so-called threat to which Trump was referring??

In his speech, Rouhani stated, "America should know that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace, and war with Iran is the mother of all wars."

That is the "threat" to which President Trump was referring. It is just another bogus propagandistic excuse to find a way to start another war of aggression against a country that has never attacked the United States or threatened to do so, contrary to what President Trump alleges in his midnight tweet.

The fact is that the last thing that Iran wants is a war with the United States.

Like Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and other nations that the United States deep state has attacked, Iran is a second-rate nation, one whose military would not stand a chance against the United States military in a war.

Everyone knows that in a United States war of aggression against Iran, the United States military will wreak massive death and destruction in Iran, especially against the Iranian populace, just like it did in Iraq.

Meanwhile, United States Secretary of State and former Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo just delivered a speech to an audience of Iranian-Americans in California that appears to be softening the ground for a war against Iran.

Comparing the Iranian government to the Mafia, Pompeo labeled Irans leading clerics as "hypocritical holy men" who were running a regime that is not "normal."

Of course, never mind that a regime that engages in formal policies of assassination, torture, indefinite detention, coups, and wars of aggression is not exactly "normal" either.

In his speech Pompeo emphasized that the United States government was on the side of the Iranian people. As one audience member pointed out, however, that sentiment is difficult to reconcile with the United States governments brutal system of sanctions, which have brought tremendous misery, impoverishment, and even death to the Iranian people.

For more than 10 years, the United States deep state also enforced a brutal system of sanctions against Iraq, which contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children. The purpose of the sanctions was regime change, one by which the Iraqi regime would agree to comply with orders of the United States deep state or abdicate in favor of a regime that would follow such orders.

After more than ten years of sanctions, misery, and death among the Iraqi people, it was clear that they were not going to achieve the goal of regime change any time soon. That is when United States officials decided to use the fear generated by the 9-11-01 attacks, along with the fear generated by the bogus Weapons of Mass Destruction, to garner support for a regime-change invasion of Iraq.

The United States sanctions against Iran are obviously encountering the same difficulty. Despite the suffering, impoverishment, and death the sanctions have produced - and continue to produce - among the Iranian people, there is no indication that they are going to produce regime change any time soon.

Trump and the deep state are obviously getting frustrated and impatient with the failure of their sanctions to achieve regime change in Iran, just as George W. Bush and the deep state became frustrated with the failure of their sanctions to achieve regime change in Iraq.

Thus, no one should be surprised if Iran soon becomes another Iraq.

Printed here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!