Both Washington and the news media are bending over backwards to drum up support for a war with Iran. In the proud tradition of incubator babies and yellowcake, they are both twisting the facts and outright lying. The further you go to the right-wing of the news media, the bigger and more belligerent the lies.

First of all, let's look at some examples.

The so-called mainstream media isn't much better.

Consider the WashPost.



Instead of might, the besieging of the embassy showed that the United States could be humiliated. The militants, posing as “protesters” despite many wearing military fatigues and carrying militia banners, smashed through the main gate, battered down doors and set fires inside the compound before setting up camp outside. Their actions are a slap to the face of America’s self-perception as a force to be reckoned with and whose deterrence capability is enough to allow it to act unchallenged. As made clear by senior U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Washington aimed Sunday’s retaliatory strikes at “deterring Iran and protecting American lives.” Clearly, however, Iran did not get the memo.

Through all of these articles you would never guess two simple, undeniable facts that would completely change the way Americans would look at the situation if they were properly informed.

#1) Both the militia members we killed in the air strike, and the protesters who tried to storm the U.S. embassy are Iraqis, not Iranians!

The media making it sound like Iranians are attacking us reminds me of 2002, when the news media decided that the best way to stop al-Qaeda was to attack a country where they weren't - Iraq.

#2) I'll let the Iraqi Prime Minister Mahdi explain this one.



"American forces acted on their political priorities, not those of the Iraqis," a statement said, adding that such strikes "violate the sovereignty of Iraq." The attacks "force Iraq to review its relations and its security, political and legal framework to protect its sovereignty," the government added. "The prime minister described the American attack on the Iraqi armed forces as an unacceptable vicious assault that will have dangerous consequences."

We attacked "the Iraqi armed forces", not Iranian armed forces.

Those militias have been part of Iraq's security forces since 2016.

In other words, it was an act of war against Iraq, not Iran.

Yes, the militias were originally formed by Iran and are still pro-Iranian, but that pales in comparison to the facts that we are killing Iraqis in Iraq's security forces.

That should be enough right there, but if you've read this far you deserve a bonus point. So let me present you with a bit of irony from just two years ago.

Yes, the same guys we bombed the other day can be seen here driving around in $1 million U.S. taxpayer supplied Abram tanks.