Lies Used To Justify War on Iraq Get Reused To Wage War on Iran
Former CIA officer Larry Johnson opines:
I believe that Israel’s attack was part of a planned international intelligence and military operation, which included the participation and support of the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. We got the first clue on May 31, when a UN watchdog issued two reports designed to create a narrative that Iran is a rogue nuclear state:
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This tactic was employed in 2002/2003 to gin up a justification to attack Iraq, who the US insisted had weapons of mass destruction. We now know it was a lie, but the propaganda was effective in producing support in the US and Europe to invade Iraq. We’re seeing a similar effort today, only this time Iran is being falsely accused of enriching uranium to build a bomb. The Iraq WMD lie, like the current calumny against Iran, only has one purpose… justify military action in order to achieve regime change.
I have previously detailed the current IAEA operation to blame Iran over some alleged nuclear contamination which were found more than two decades ago.
During the build-up to the 2003 war on Iraq there was another lie that famously used to ‘justify’ the attack.
It was alleged that Iraq’s leader Saddam Hussein was in cahoots with al-Qaeda, a terrorist group that had been created by the U.S. in Pakistan to fight against the Soviet supported government of Afgh
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