Iran Accusations ... Deja Vu

"Britain accuses Iran of running training camps for bombers",
The Independent, Wednesday 12 October, 2005

At this stage we will ignore the obvious falsity of the headline - 'Britain' does not accuse Iran, but unamed British government spokespersons have done so. They do not speak for me, and I am sure that there are millions of other British citizens who do not wish to lend their support to this accusation. Let's assume that this is merely journalistic short-hand, however misleading.

Britain has not made this accusation ... Mr. Bliar has done so on behalf of his master Bush, to further the phoney 'war on terror'. This is just the next stage in perpetuating the demonisation of Islamic (oil rich) states, to ramp up the argument for air-strikes.

You've previously seen it happen in Libya, Sudan, Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq - convincing talk of 'terror training camps', 'state sponsored terrorism', 'weapons of mass destruction' and all the scary catch-phrases. And all to justify the inevitable bombing and missile attacks (precision, of course - we are so accurate these days that no civilians are harmed - well actually they are but we don't count them so they don't count !).

'Terrorist training camps' will be 'identified' for targetting - coincidentally they will be close to nuclear processing facilities and other key infrastructure that our dear leader and his bosses would be not unhappy to see suffer colateral damage.

And so the beat (laid down by the arms manufactures, oil companies, etc.) goes on ..........