The Iran Fixation: How the American Media Enables Bush

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The Iran Fixation

How the American Media Enables Bush

By Ayesha Ijaz KhanY

16/01/08 "Counterpunch" -- President George Bush has a few months left in office. Many analysts have believed for some time now that before he retires from that position, he will have orchestrated an attack either against Syria or Iran. Increasingly, it seems that his fixation is with Iran. After much was made by the Bush administration about Iran's covert nuclear program, recently there was acknowledgment that many of those fears may have been over-exaggerated or even misplaced. Yet no one from the administration was taken to task for spreading such sinister misinformation. More disturbingly, there was no substantive criticism from the American media either.

To the contrary, US media has increasingly become a mouthpiece of the Bush administration, perpetuating and ventilating the fears which prevent a population from thinking rationally about important issues. I happened to be in New York a few months ago when President Ahmedinijad arrived to address the United Nations General Assembly. The day he landed, local press ran shocking headlines in the newspapers. "Tehran Thug Comes To Town," read one; "Terror Has Landed," said another. It was the kind of diction one expects from a grade school bully, not intellectually honest analysis of issues with global ramifications...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19088.htm

Note: I do take issue with the line about the U.S. media "increasingly become a mouthpiece of the Bush administration" since it has given them a pass since the 2000 debacle.

[ladjf]

1. NO ONE is fixated on Iran except Bush, Israel and Bush's

cronies.

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3. I'd love to see an accurate poll showing how many Americans know about PNAC

[ixion]

2. yeah, rather than "increasingly become" I believe the correct verb clause there is:

have consistently been.