You may have noticed that the same media folks who were willingly spoonfed This Administration's lies about Iraq are now devouring and regurgitating the new lies about Iran. Don't these guys ever learn anything?
Gordon Prather has an article over at antiwar.com that documents how This Administration is spinning its latest hate campaign in the war against Eurasia. Dr. Prather is a physicist and noted policy wonk. CV in the article sidebar.
Details below the line . . .
Says Prather:
According to Reuters' Louis Charbonneau - a neo-crazy media sycophant if ever there was one - those despicable Iranians "broke UN seals at a uranium processing plant" last week.
Dr. Prather says that we are being mislead in several different directions at once:
About what the IAEA found in 2002
About why the IAEA put seals on Iranian equipment
About what the NPT is about and what it requires
and about what breaking the seals implies.
If, as Charbonneau charges, IAEA inspectors had found "hidden weapons-grade highly enriched uranium" in Iran, they would have been required to report that to the Board, and the Board would have been required to report that to the Security Council.
But they didn't. In fact, Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei has reported to the Board on numerous occasions that IAEA inspectors have found no "indication" that Iran now has, ever had, or intends to have a nuclear weapons program.
So what did the IAEA "find" back in 2002?
Well, it wasn't uranium. Go check it out.