Iraq’s colonial occupier, the US, denounces “foreign meddling�
Center for Research on Globalization, Canada
by David Walsh Global Research, January 31, 2007 Woreld Socialist web Site - 2007-01-30
In recent weeks US government and military officials, aided and abetted by the American media, have stepped up the war of words against Iran. As they did precisely four years ago, in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, the political and media establishment is attempting to build up a case for military action against a country that has no designs on American territory and represents no threat to the US population.
The campaign of misinformation is proceeding as though the claims about weapons of mass destruction and Iraq’s links to Al Qaeda had never been exposed as lies. The Bush administration has no credibility whatsoever in its new propaganda campaign against Iran. Indeed, it is viewed by broad layers of the world’s population as a criminal outfit, bound and determined to impose its will against all opposition. This does not prevent the US mass media from transmitting the administration’s latest claims as the gospel truth.
One of the most outrageous aspects of the current offensive is the contention, repeated innumerable times by various US officials, that Iran has to be prevented from “meddling� in Iraqi affairs. The superpower responsible for the deaths of countless Iraqi citizens over the past decade and a half and the virtual disintegration of Iraqi society through war, sanctions and invasion, which currently has 150,000 troops stationed on Iraqi soil, has the gall to accuse others of “interference.� In fact, nothing has been more catastrophic for the Iraqi people in history than its encounter with American “meddling.�
The Ahmadinejad regime in Tehran is of course pursuing its interests in Iraq. One might point out that its hand has been immeasurably strengthened by the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the installation of a puppet government in Baghdad with a strong pro-Iranian, Shiite representation, but that is another matter.
The American propaganda effort is directed toward justifying an expansion of the war in the Middle East and furthering US plans to establish control over the region’s vast energy reserves. Everything else is mere dust in the public’s eyes. [more]