BY GLENN GREENWALD
Many have compared the coordinated propaganda campaign now being disseminated about The Iranian Threat to that which preceded the Iraq War, but there is one notable difference. Whereas the American media in 2002 followed the lead of the U.S. government in beating the war drums against Saddam, they now seem even more eager for war against Iran than the U.S. government itself, which actually appears somewhat reluctant. Consider this highly illustrative, one-minute report yesterday?from the nightly broadcast of?NBC News with Brian Williams, by the network?s Chief Pentagon Correspondent Jim ?Mik? Miklaszewski,?which packs multiple misleading narratives into one short package:
We?re told that if the U.S. ends up in a war with Iran, then ?the U.S. Navy?s Fifth Fleet would be the world?s first line of defense?: because Iran is threatening the entire world, and the U.S. would be defending ?the world? from this grave Persian menace. Then there?s the ominous claim that ?Iranian leaders have threatened all-out war?: but that?s ?if Israel launches air strikes against Iran?s nuclear program,? which would already itself be ?all-out war.? The NBC?story ? which begins with video shots of Iranians in lab coats lurking around complex, James-Bond-villain-like nuclear-ish machines ? ends with twenty seconds of scary video footage of Iranian missiles being launched, accompanied with this narration: ?U.S. officials warn that Iran?s massive stockpile of ballistic missiles is the more serious threat?; after all, ?within just the past few days, Iranian leaders [cue video of a scary, ranting Ahmedinijad] have threatened that if attacked, they would launch those missiles at U.S. targets.?
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