Check this out from Pastor John Wright, on the continued rolling of deception to build up support for the empire’s never-ending buildup toward war to achive their goals.
It is Holy Week, but I have to alert readers to continued distortion of news material in the US press — or at least inform you of contradictory reports. Given the distortions of material that led to selling the Iraq War, similar material is now being sown. I don’t know all the data, but poll today suggests that 64% of Americans support an air attack on Iran to prevent their “development of nuclear weapons.” Previous comments from the week before suggest that the Bush regime is strongly considering using nuclear weapons in the attack. God forgive us all.
But today a report is making it out to the news through the State Department. If one reads closely, one sees how the state department spins in an alarmist manner — and how the press mindlessly repeats the State Department line — by extracting in a distorting way what the Iranian press conference actually said.
from Juan Cole: (also via Pastor John in the same post)
Despite all the sloppy and inaccurate headlines about Iran “going nuclear,” the fact is that all President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday was that it had enriched uranium to a measely 3.5 percent, using a bank of 180 centrifuges hooked up so that they “cascade.”
The ability to slightly enrich uranium is not the same as the ability to build a bomb. For the latter, you need at least 80% enrichment, which in turn would require about 16,000 small centrifuges hooked up to cascade. Iran does not have 16,000 centrifuges. It seems to have 180. Iran is a good ten years away from having a bomb, and since its leaders, including Supreme Jurisprudent Ali Khamenei, say they do not want an atomic bomb because it is Islamically immoral, you have to wonder if they will ever have a bomb.
The evil in this administration, leading us ever closer to the prospect of nuclear confrontation, or further motivating those who would devise such in secret, has been allowed to grow relatively unchecked. The hubris of these guys is simply horrifying.