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Others demand it give up what doesn't exist and endorse war as the price for refusal. Former Bush administration official/now regular Fox News contributor, and member of America's lunatic fringe John Bolton calls sanctions "half measures doomed to fail" and favors war, saying:
The "way to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons is to attack its nuclear weapons program directly and break their control over the nuclear fuel cycle."
He's not alone. Viewers and readers get steady warmongering propaganda. It replicates the run-up to attacking Iraq in 2003 based on spurious WMD hype. It was repeated against Libya based on falsified reports and willful lies.
At all times, public sentiment's influenced. People are manipulated to support war. They do unwittingly not knowing they're lied to. It happens no matter how previous many times they later learned they were fooled.
In a recent column, the Washington Post's resident zealot (and regular Fox News contributor), Charles Krauthhammer outrageously called Iran "the world's greatest exporter of terror, the systematic killer of Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan, the self-declared enemy that invented 'Death to America Day,' " and soon to have "nuclear capability."
Claiming Israel's "threatened with annihilation," he favors war as the way to prevent it, despite no threat whatever existing.
The New York Times regularly features pro-war advocates like former Israeli intelligence head Amos Yadlin . He used it to claim Israel faces an existential threat of annihilation and must act preemptively against it.
Whether or not Obama agrees, "Israeli leaders may well choose to act while they still can."
In June 2009, pro-Israeli ideologues prepared a Brookings Institution policy paper titled, "Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American Strategy Toward Iran." It openly endorsed regime change, including by air strikes, invasion, and/or encouraging Israel to attack.
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