US Government is Faking Evidence so it Can Bomb Iran

It's pretty clear that the United States government is manufacturing evidence and arguments to give it political cover to do what it has wanted to do for a decade: invade Iran and topple the Iranian government.

Oh, cool. We need ANOTHER war in the Middle East — a region that does not need and does not want our influence, our presence, or our meddling. The most recent attempt to portray the bumbling government of Iran as a menacing, direct threat to the United States involves a scene so bizarre that it has to be fake. According to U.S. officials, Iran sent an assassin to blow up the Saudi Arabian Embassy in the United States, located in Washington, DC. The alleged goal was to kill the Saudi ambassador to the US. Oh, did I say "Iranian Assassin"? I meant failed used-car salesman. Seriously. The American government would have you believe that the Iranian government entrusted a super-important, 007-style spy and assassin mission to an insane (yes, insane) former car salesman — who then hired a Mexican drug cartel to pull off the mission. If you believe that load of crap, you probably think Saddam Hussein was behind the 9/11 plot. What would Iran possibly hope to gain from pulling off such an attack? Saudi Arabia is precisely the sort of ally that Iran needs in the region to keep the United States from attacking. Iran might get one shot at a good terror attack before we go to war with them. Are we really to believe that, instead of attacking the United States directly, they're going to go on and kill a fellow Muslim? A diplomat? That's just...stupid. Apparently, so is our government, as they trotted out Attorney General Eric Holder to kick off the "Bomb Iran" campaign. "In addition to holding these individual conspirators accountable for their alleged role in this plot, the United States is committed to holding Iran accountable for its actions," Holder said. Oh, good. I was getting sick of turning on the news and NOT hearing about more dead soldiers, dead airmen, dead sailors and dead marines. I was growing tired of thoughts of pulling our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan and perhaps having a moment or two of peace in the world. As expected, the right-wing steroid chorus is screaming at the top of its lungs that this (obviously faked) incident is a reason why we need to go and kill a bunch of innocent Iranian citizens. Weekly Standard Chief Editor William Kristol, who never met a Muslim nation he didn't want to bomb, saidf the fake plot is "an engraved invitation" from Tehran to the United States military. "We can strike at the Iranian Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), and weaken them. And we can hit the regime's nuclear weapons program, and set it back," he wrote. That would be the air-quotes, "nuclear weapons program", as in "it doesn't exist, you right-wing warmongering psychopath." Kristol also wants Congress to authorize the use of military strikes against Iran for attack on U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan (which cannot be proven), acts of terrorism (which haven't happened) and the regime's "nuclear weapons program" (which does not exist). Kristol, like all the other warmongerers, will not be on the line in this war he proposes. Of course not. He can armchair quarterback this assault on another Muslim nation while he sips a beverage and watches the brown body count roll in. Meanwhile, back in reality-land, those who actually know what the hell they're talking about took two seconds to see this alleged plot for what it is: a scam, a lie, and a ruse. It is the United States government lying to you. "Fishy, fishy, fishy," said Bruce Riedel, a Central Intelligence Agency (

) veteran. Riedel was in charge of the Near East and South Asia on the National Security Council. Another expert, Robert Baer, who was a CIA field officer in the Middle East, sees the plot as similar to a "truly awful Hollywood script". "None of it measures up to Iran's unsurpassed skill in conducting assassinations," he wrote on Time magazine's website. I don't know how better to put this, so I suppose we'll just put it in bold:

Yes, conditioned. Story after story, drip after drip. It's the same trend we saw after 9/11, when the government used the media to prepare the country for a war against Afghanistan and again two years later, when the government lied its way into a war in Iraq. Don't believe me? Watch the news. Read the papers. Watch over the next 6 months as story after story details plots from Iran, the growing menace in Iran, Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program, and so on. Listen to the drumbeats of war, as one right-wing nut after another jumps in front of a microphone to beg president Obama to send your kids off to die in another desert. Whatever you do, don't trust a thing this government says. Whether you're a Republican or a Democrat or something else, stories like this should serve to remind you: the government will go to any lengths and tell any lie, including framing innocents, in order to kill the people it wants to kill.