Sen. Bernie Sanders: Fox Attacks: Iran

[marmar]

from HuffPost:


Sen. Bernie Sanders
Fox Attacks: Iran
Posted August 23, 2007 | 02:36 PM (EST)



"Fox Attacks: Iran" is a bold effort to provide Americans with a different view of our policy toward Iran than the one Fox News keeps pushing on us. While Fox beats the drums for war, Robert Greenwald has produced documentary evidence that unmasks the 'coverage' for what it is: propaganda to get Americans ready for a Bush administration attack on yet another Middle Eastern nation. Robert has done something remarkable. He has used his extraordinary media skills to make a short video - only three minutes - to educate the American people, using the Internet as a way to connect us.

The issue here is pretty simple. The war in Iraq, which Bush misled us into, has been a disaster. It caused us, and the Iraqi people, a great deal of suffering: more than 3,700 American casualties, more than 70,000 Iraqi casualties, 2 million Iraqis displaced within Iraq by violence fear, and another 2 million Iraqis living as refugees in Syria and Jordan. It has cost our nation a great deal of money, money which could have been better used in educating our children, providing health care to every American, rebuilding our bridges and infrastructure, and helping us move toward a new green economy.

And, ironically, it has made us less safe from the very serious problem of international terrorism.

Osama bin Laden is alive and well and, according to the National Intelligence Estimate, Al Quada is growing stronger throughout the world.

In Afghanistan, the Taliban is reemerging as a powerful adversary, using terrorist skills they learned in Iraq, and the situation there is becoming more difficult. One of the reasons for the reemergence of the Taliban is, in my view, that in order to fight the war in Iraq, the Bush administration has diverted military, intelligence and reconstruction resources away from Afghanistan.

In the midst of all this, the United States, because of Bush's actions, is held in lower regard by the international community than at any time in the modern history of our country. .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-bernie-sanders/fox-attacks-iran_b_61578.html

[Fridays Child]

1. I want Jenna and her fiancé in uniform and ready to lead the troops into Iran.

Not Jenna can go, too.

[sarcasmo]

2. Bernie is great. Thom Hartmann every Friday afternoon.

[reprobate]

3. Hey, Nancy! If you don't do something to stop this cabal you'll be just as guilty as they are.