Day After Gordon's Latest 'NYT' Front-Pager -- Bush and Cheney Threaten Iran

Editor&Publisher: Day After Gordon's Latest 'NYT' Front-Pager -- Bush and Cheney Threaten Iran
By E&P Staff
Published: August 10, 2007

NEW YORK One day after The New York Times placed Michael R. Gordon's latest story about Iranian weapons allegedly blowing up large numbers of Americans in Iraq, President Bush warned that action might be taken against that country. McClatchy Newspapers meanwhile warned in a Web headline, "Cheney Urging Strikes on Iran."

It was reminiscent of the day in September 2002 when Cheney and other officials went on Sunday talk shows and touted the now-infamous Gordon-Judith Miller front-pager in the Times on the "aluminum tubes" in Iraq and the possible "mushroom cloud" on the horizon. The Times, and Gordon specifically, have been giving the unproven Iranian IED charges far more prominent play than any other major news outlet.

Meanwhile, a senior U.S. military officer told the Los Angeles Times that Saudi nationals compose 45 percent of foreign fighters in Iraq who actively target U.S. forces. Yet there has been relatively little media coverage, and few statements by U.S. military and officials, about this.

The McClatchy article by Warren P. Strobel, John Walcott and Nancy A. Youssef, reveals, "Cheney, who's long been skeptical of diplomacy with Iran, argued for military action if hard new evidence emerges of Iran's complicity in supporting anti-American forces in Iraq; for example, catching a truckload of fighters or weapons crossing into Iraq from Iran, one official said....

"Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice opposes this idea, the officials said. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has stated publicly that 'we think we can handle this inside the borders of Iraq.'"...

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He really shouldn't be working so hard, for his health you know, think we can convince him to step down? So he can watch his little grandchild grow up.

diplomacy- and her hub...so far agrees with her!

E & P does the job that the NYT and the Washington Post and other corporate media have abdicated. They just tell the truth, while the corporate media organs Catapult the republicon Homelander propaganda.

and, you're right -- they are like a feisty, determined little dog on the pantleg of both media and the Bushies. They are vigilant. I notice that they "work" on the weekends, for example. Most such sites have nothing new on the weekend, but it's possible to find something new at E&P most anytime. I think they're a little like Olbermann and his Special Comments, which he comes out with when moved to do so. When they see something that makes a story like this, they write, and post it.

the chosen target of PNAC and the barons. Look at geography, look below the surface, look at the surface and think secured pipelines (oil and water pipelines) all the way from the Himalyas to Israel and the Mediterranean bypassing Canals. Think vulnerability of targets. Iran. Iran - creates some of their own vulnerability? Or are they playing war games ON US WITH PNAC? Or are Pnacers-barons playing the Shiite-Sunni card for themselves. This is not to benefit the people of the U.S. or any other country, this is for a select group of people in the military-industrial-media-foundation world USING the people of the U.S.. Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Pakistan, Afghanistan and killing and torturing people EVERYWHERE. - on small islands or in the depths of woods and deserts - and with the help and assistance (and lucrative participation) of and by many European countries and Israel and certain of their citizens and corporations. PNAC and the barons and their world have needs. Cheney is their 'arranger'. The short history of the 21st Century and the last half of the 20th proves it all.

taking on the role of a "left" version of Osama bin Ladin, he will lead the Islamic revolution at the expense of his own people in Iran. Even King Abdullah is playing along with this, congratulating Iran on its wisdom and foresight. The common people of the Middle East are getting royally screwed.