Our Fawning Corporate Media that howls about the incompetence of the Trump administration jumps lock-step behind Pompeo when it involves Iran. Pompeo has effectively shut down any discussion on this matter, and our media outlets have naturally played ball on this one. Gawd forbid the Suadis and the Iranians should actually start working out a peace plan. The weapons manufacturers and Generals would lose so much money and power. Amazing how our news companies can whip the populace into agreement whenever there is a scary foreigner story to be sold. Want to see some people who killed thousands of Americans? Let's start with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. This whole episode stinks like the WMD crap all over again, and many of the same voices who were clamoring for war with Iraq were trotted out to promote this war with Iran.
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi has confirmed that Suleimani was in Baghdad at the time of the drone strike on a diplomatic mission. Despairing of their ability to push America into war with Iran for them, Saudi Arabia had recently been exploring a consolation plan B: more peaceful relations with Iran. Iraq was providing the role of intermediary, and Saudi Arabia had recently sent them a de-escalation message for Iran. According to the Iraqi prime minister, the reason Suleimani was in Iraq was to deliver Iran’s reply. Abdul-Mahadi says that he had a meeting scheduled with Suleimani for 8:30am, just a few short hours before Suleimani was assassinated. Importantly, it is clear that the U.S. knew about these events because, according to reporting by Max Blumenthal, Trump personally thanked Abdul-Mahadi for the role he was playing.
The Iranians and the Iraqis have been howling. Their remonstrations have been buried by our media. And notice how little coverage of the other 7 killed in the strike including al-Muhandis, a key Iraqi political and military figure. The reporting on this whole episode has been absolutely terrible.
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