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Posted by Jesus on Dope (Guest) - Sunday, November 28 2004, 1:28:08 (CET)
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As things go to shit in Iraq-- that is to say the war, the "liberation" and the lives of countless Iraqis and scores of American soldiers -- what better way to distract the American public, now that Scott Peterson is toast, like making the same damn mistakes all over again in Iran?

It was Marx who said that history repeats itself, first as tragedy and a second time as farce, but what he failed to take into account was that given an American public with the attention span of a learning disabled coke whore gnat, the cycle can go on forever.

Let's beat the drum again: Liberation, Democracy, WMD. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Can't get fooled again? Sure we can. As many times as we want. It's not ass if the new, improved and purged CIA is going to generate intelligence to tell anyone different.

This past Friday there was a well-organized picket walking around Freedom Plaza, right in front of the National Press Building and a stone's throw from the White House at about the same time that Colin Powell decided that leaving office with even a tiny, timid, beaten to shit scrap of credibility intact would mean he wasn't being a team player. That's right, Powell is doing for Iran what he did for Iraq: Claiming they have bad weapons we need to take out, based on the reports of Iranian expatriates who, I guess, would grudgingly step in to take over once we do more of our patented regime change Iran. These folks would be The National Council of Resistance of Iran, also known as the People's Mujahedeen of Iran which are odd allies in the war on terror, being that they themselves are on the State Department's list of terrorist organizations.

Especially given the dynamic displayed by the flyer to the top right, the one they were making their kids run around and hand out to answer the all important question of spectators at a rally, which is "what the fuck are you people on about?" You see, the key isn't the words "terror" or "WMD. A hippie could be against weapons and violence. It's "mullah" that does the heavy liting, giving the slight wiff of a religious crusade that's all-important in these Godly times.

Now, I have no concrete idea who the group who did the rally in D.C. on Friday, The Council for Freedom and Democracy in Iran, is all about, but on their web site they allude to the NCRI and provide as "evidence" an article from the New York Times doing what the Times does best, which is administration stenography, without any critical evaluation. The site itself is a rather slapdash affair which was only registered in October of this year, according to Network Solutions, and a Google search shows that they haven't done anything newsworthy besides this rally itself as, covered by the Washington Post. Oh yes, and that "US! PMOI Off the List" (People's Mujahedeen of Iran off the terrorist list, you think?) sign pictured below more than suggests their affiliation.

Never trust any group with multiple aliases.

Astroturf, anyone?

Now, they seemed to be rather well-organized. After the protestors left Freedom Plaza after accomplishing their mission of putting on a show for the press, the protestors didn't dispose of or take home their their banners and flags. Sorry to sound cynical, but most protests I've ever been to at least some people tossed out their signs and personally owned whatever banners and flags they carried with them. Looks like everyone came to this event empty-handed: One thing you didn't see at this demonstration were any home-made signs. Not a magic marker to be found in this group: Their signs were all uniform and commercially produced.

After the rally the protest paraphernalia was left neatly piled on the marble work of Freedom Plaza, getting a little sodden in the rain until some guys came by in a pickup truck a couple hours later --which happily coincided with my walking to Starbucks for some coffee-- and loaded the whole kit and kaboodle up. I've also never seen a small protest of this sort with their own road crew, but maybe the protests I've been too were far too amateurish to be compared to this one.

Then there's this: A baggage ticket from British Airways mixed in with the signs and banners laying on the ground. Again, I've seen amateurish protests were people were bussed in, but apparently this one had some people flown in. Of course, this could mean absolutely nothing, but it's hard to shake the suspicion that I saw all this before, last year.

Do you think it would be too much to expect that when people evaluate the grave threat posed by Iran, and the brave expatriate Iranian leadership willing to step into an American made vacuum in that country, that they try to remember the job that Ahmed Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress did to help the Bush Administration create a rationale for the invasion of Iraq out of whole cloth stitched together with threads of greed, personal ambition and lies?

It's not a question of whether the Bush administration is justified in attacking Iran any more than they needed justification that would stick in Iraq. The only question is whether they want to do it, and then everything else follows. November 2nd put back in power a man and his loyalists who elevate fact-free and amoral personal whim to policy.

A healthy skepticism is too much to ask of the American faith-based leadership and, more importantly, taking a stand against them is more than can be expected of brain damaged and morally bankrupt community of all-American sheep.

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