BIG, BAD BOOGEY MAN

by Malik Isasis






















UPDATED: 9/25/07

MSNBC Debates President Ahmadinejad's visit.

United States' government and corporate media blames Iran for shipping weapons and arming terrorists, however, the United States has armed militias and terrorists and has lost: · 110,000 AK-47s · 80,000 pistols · 135,000 bits of armour. It is more than likely that US' supplied weapons are killing US soldiers and countless civilians.
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In an age where war is peace, fiction is fact, and diplomacy is determined ignorance, it is no wonder that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to New York City is causing protestation amongst those who’ve been spoon fed propaganda on Iran by Bush and Co. and the corporate media.

"He has American blood on his hands," said City Council member David Weprin, "as he has aided the insurgency in Iraq by sending weapons and manpower for the sole purpose to kill Americans."

Councilman Weprin is in a line of political lemmings making an incredible leap of logic off the cliff. If Mr. Weprin were to care about getting beyond the headlines, and take his misplaced outrage down a notch, or bothered getting off his ass and reading he would have discovered that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki asked for help from Iran.

The prime minister said his three-day visit aimed at enlisting Iranian help in calming Iraq's turmoil — though he has not said whether he was pressing Iran on the U.S. accusations.

Iranian leaders vowed their support for Iraq's security, but in their talks with Maliki they stuck by their stance that real peace would only come when U.S. forces pull out.

"Establishment of peace and tranquility in Iraq depends on withdrawal of occupiers and their avoidance of interfering in Iraq," Iranian Vice President Parviz Davoodi said after meeting Maliki.


Doesn’t the U.S. support its allies with munitions, planes and such? Isn't the blood of Palestinians on our hands? If Iran feels that the United States is an occupying force and Iraq is its ally, it makes sense that they would be sending weapons and giving tactical support. The United States can’t have it both ways; you can’t occupy a sovereign nation and not expect people and their allies to rise up against the subjugation.

There are many examples of this throughout history. China and Russia supported North Vietnam in the American War against Vietnam, and again in the Korean War, just as the United States supported the Bin Laden in the 1980s to defeat the occupying forces of Russia in Afghanistan.

New American Diplomacy

The corporate media and the Bush administration will again blow an opportunity to gain the world’s confidence in the United States’ to emerge from its puerile stupor. Instead, the corporate media will act like a child imitating her parents by calling the Head of a State, names. They’ll say stupid shit like, “Ahmadinejad has, in many ways, the same ideology as those that attacked us on Sept. 11. If he cared about the United States so much and wanted to pay his respects to ground zero, where was he after that horrible day?”, and " 'TEHRAN'TING LUNATIC … bloody handed villain … bearded blowhard" —New York Post. "Iranian thug … madman" — New York Daily News. "Maniac" — Republican Rep. Vito Fossella of Staten Island.

Hey now, I have a beard.

This childish mocking of a Head of State has replaced real diplomacy. Now, Bush can sit on his lazy ass and watch the corporate media excoriate Ahmadinejad, and Bush will get away with it again, of not having to personally meet with a world leader who disagrees with him. He’s a snake oil salesman who is selling flood protection coverage to people living in a desert and large portions of the public are buying the plan.

The United States has to speak in a way that others can hear, and stop calling people names and sticking its tongue out. The corporate media and politicians need to grow up, just like the tooth fairy, boogey men do not exist.

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