US lawmakers unite to demonize Iran

[laststeamtrain]

US lawmakers unite to demonize Iran
By Khody Akhavi

WASHINGTON - Last Thursday afternoon, in a tightly packed press room of the US Capitol building, Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi stood at the podium and smiled heartily as she pointed to two columns of mailboxes stacked behind her.

"Since Iran funds death," she told the crowd, her lobby group - The Israel Project (TIP) - was collecting petitions demanding that economic pressure and sanctions be brought against Iran for its refusal to halt its nuclear program and its alleged continued support for terrorism.

<snip>


TIP's press conference was striking for the strong written statements of support issued by more than 13 presidential candidates, including Democratic Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

<snip>

"Allowing Iran, a radical theocracy that supports terrorism and openly threatens its neighbors, to acquire nuclear weapons is a risk we cannot take," said Obama in a statement read aloud to reporters. "All nations need to understand that, while Iran's most explicit and intolerable threats are aimed at Israel, its conduct threatens all of us."

<snip>

Clinton said: "We cannot permit Iran to build or acquire nuclear weapons. We must also not let go unanswered its state sponsorship of terrorism. We must not stand silent in the face of brutal repression of women and minorities. And we must not tolerate threats to the existence of Israel."

<snip>

Most lawmakers in attendance preferred the deliberate ambiguity of leaving the military option "on the table" rather than direct military threats, yet they fiercely condemned Iran and questioned the mental stability of President Mahmud Ahmadinejad.

<more>

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IG25Ak01.html

*

Are they all 'War Pigs'? I guess not Kucinich. But 'he can't win'. Or so the media wise people say.

After the candidates 'secure their base' & start 'moving to the middle', what will that be like?

I think the middle is for military disengagement in the middle east (ie diplomacy).

It's hard constructing a narrative or figuring out who's telling the truth & when & to whom.

And this crap's going to go on for another year & a half?

If events like the one described here got bigger play in the MSM what would the middle think?

I think the country is running short on war mongers everywhere except in 'medialand'.