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These Little Things Add Up
The "lefty" news aggregator RawStory currently has this snippet on its frontpage.
So Ahmadinejad bans women from soccer games? Didn´t I read the opposite just some days ago?
The link under "women" leads to an Associated Press snippet on the globeandmail.com website. The story says:
Iran bars women from soccer games
Tehran — Iran’s women will be barred from attending soccer games, a reversal by the President that comes a month before the national team plays in the World Cup.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had ruled in April that he would allow women to go to soccer games and sit in a separate section of the stands. But Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — who under the constitution has the final say — opposed the move.
Two issues:
- The first graph by AP is wrong in attributing this to a "reversal" by the President. Ahmadinejad did not change his opinion, but was overruled by the mullahs. (I guess they called him a "liberal" – it seams to be the current to fashion) these days.
- RawStory was sloppy and only read the first paragraph or it is an active part in the "Ahmadinejad is EVIL" propaganda campaign.
Don´t underestimate how these little things add up. People do not remember these later on, but they do form the public opinion.
In their eagerness to make the other fellow appear the mirror image of the numbskull failed businessmen and b grade actors who get elected POTUS, the US MSM characterises other nation’s leaders, particularly potential enemies, in the same one dimensional glare as US politicians have found to be the key to their success.
However when selling foreigners to the mugs fore-going health-care, their children’s education, and retirement income; to bankroll this scam, a bit of human interest back-story is required.
I thought it might be interesting to go back a bit and look at the US MSM reporting on the prospective Iraqi PM before the crooks running the Iraqi heist decided he wasn’t malleable enough.
The Washington Post article linked to above, describes the soon to be vilified Ibrahim Jafari as a “soft spoken doctor”. This was at the time the glass-eyed, slack-jawed droolers were being instructed that the farce otherwise known as a ‘democratic process’ was proof positive that the ‘murders which shall remain unspoken’ had produced a democratic result liberating the people of Iraq. It was therefore necessary to portray the ‘winner’ of this process ie Iraq’s prospective leader as a person that all Iraqi’s should be proud to follow.
Hence:
“Jafari, 59, an intellectual given to quoting poets and philosophers in his public speeches, appeared to be painfully aware of the burden of leading a country still in chaos nearly three years after a U.S.-led coalition toppled Hussein’s dictatorship. Iraq is torn by rivalries among Shiites, Sunni Arabs and Kurds. Its infrastructure is in tatters after decades of war and neglect. And the leader of the violent insurgent organization, al Qaeda in Iraq, has sworn to destroy the country’s nascent democracy.
“You should console me in this situation,” Jafari told Mahdi when the latter congratulated him. “This is a big burden and a position of difficulties.””
Even so since the invaders preferred choice, a modern day version of the coldly clinical cost accountant, Adel Abdul Mahdi, euphemistically described as a secular economist,(if he had been on the outer WaPo would have called him a ‘technocrat’) hadn’t been selected.
Therefore the article carefully prepared the ground in case there was a need for the next move:
“None of the problems, least of all the violence, has come close to being solved since Jafari was formally installed as prime minister last April. At least six Iraqis were killed and 20 wounded in a series of bombings and shootings in Baghdad and in the north Sunday, according to the Associated Press. Gunmen also kidnapped 14 Iranian pilgrims in the city of Samarra, about 65 miles north of Baghdad, the day before, a police spokesman said.”
But the WaPo’s bosses, the assholes manipulating this larceny, still weren’t certain that Jafari wouldn’t kowtow to “his superiors” ie the collection of failed businessmen, shysters and B grade actors that make up the bulk of the US legislature. So to cover the possibility that this obviously honourable and highly respected man may bend with the wind they provided an escape from the sting in the tail:
“Ordinary Iraqis complained of the continuing crisis in interviews Sunday, questioning whether Jafari was the right leader for the job.
“Everything went from bad to worse,” Samer Abllahad, a shopkeeper in Baghdad, said of Jafari’s brief term as interim prime minister. “I think the main reason was that he did not have time to make a difference. Maybe in the coming four years, he will be able to make some changes and bring safety to the country.”
Of course we all know what happened later when it was revealed that Jafari included Noam Chomksy amongst his preferred philosophers, that in fact he had been picked by the Shi’ites precisely because he was a respected human who wouldn’t betray his ideals.
He got blamed for something he had absolutely no control over, that is the orgy of mayhem and slaughter conducted by Negroponte’s death squads.
One of the most maddening things about the way in which the US govt, behaves is when it belittles the people standing between it and it’s prospective booty. amerikans lap it up. Since their own leaders are greedy and cynical opportunists they imagine that is the sort of person picked as leader of every other nation.
Everyone remembers the raids on the ‘torture chambers’ before the Iraqi election, but how many remember the Brit soldiers getting about Basra in traditional Iraqi ‘tribal wear’ armed to the teeth with all sorts of murderous devices, plastique, machine guns, hand grenades.
Nowadays death squads get about in ‘police uniforms’ but given that these uniforms are supplied by USuk authorities, no one asks how these alleged enemies got their hands on them.
Ahmadinejad the Iranian president is obviously a complex character, not easily able to be reduced to the one dimensional, hate, cardboard cut-out that these organised crime figures, masquerading as US politicians like to dehumanise hinderances into.
This is easy enough within the US but both Iraq (27 million) and Iran (69 million) have much smaller populations. Even worse they have ancient social structures with their own internal means of communication.
That of course makes it extremely difficult to sell them a Ahmed Chalabi or an Iyad Allawi. Typical is this story about Allawi. It includes eyewitness accounts of Allawi murdering ‘half a dozen’ handcuffed and blindfolded Iraqi youths after they had been tortured.
Christian Bailey and the Lincoln Group can plant as many optimistic or libellous falsehoods in the Iraqi media as they like but they will never compete with time honoured means of getting the truth out to a population which has been oppressed for centuries. Before the US, Saddam, before Saddam, the Hashemite ‘royalty’ still performing puppets for USuk in Jordan, before the Hashemites the Brits with their chemical warfare, before the Brits, the Ottoman Empire, rulers of Turkey and all points east.
If this doomed to failure attempt to grind Iran down to the point where they surrender their resources once more, was really about nuclear proliferation wouldn’t it make more sense to persuade the people of Iran of this than deceiving amerikans, brits, australians, israelis, germans in fact anyone anyone bar iranians?
As well as being far more likely to stop the race to purify and enrich radio-active substances, it would cost a heap less in money and human lives.
Posted by: Anonymous | May 9 2006 23:23 utc | 9
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