The Media Is Lying About The Attacks On The Embassy In Baghdad

[donnay]

The Media Is Lying About The Attacks On The Embassy In Baghdad

Media figures are lying about Tuesday's attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Why?

By Erielle Davidson
JANUARY 1, 2020


You can tell that the Obama administration’s legacy in the Middle East is in danger because the media, as the self-appointed janitors of that legacy, have gone into overdrive obfuscating the timing, context, and significance of this week’s attack on the United States embassy in Baghdad. Although President Donald Trump has gone a long way to dismantling Obama’s legacy in the region, much more remains to be done, including a halt to American taxpayer money that has been flowing into Iranian-controlled governments in Iraq and Lebanon.

Earlier this week Iran-backed militias stormed the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, chanting “Down, down USA!” and hurling water bottles and smashing security cameras. The attackers breached parts of the embassy and were only disbursed the next day, after Trump deployed Marines to ensure the safety of our embassy personnel and property.

The attacks have been building for months, including roughly a dozen attacks on U.S. assets by these militias and American retaliatory strikes against five locations in Iraq and Syria belonging to the Iranian-backed Kata’ib Hezbollah. The group represents an ongoing replication of the “Islamic revolutionary model” that Iran first “exported” to and “perfected” in Lebanon in the early 1980s.

The New York Times has labeled the attackers “mourners” responding to the U.S. strikes, while the front page of the first Washington Post edition of 2020 labeled them “protesters.” The latter is a particularly pernicious mislabeling. The media has done its best to conflate the attacks with anti-Iran protests that have been happening across Iraq for the last three months, but of course those actual protesters are pro-Iraqi sovereignty demonstrators fed up with the corruption and the broad perception that the Iraqi government is controlled by Iran.

Confirming exactly that accusation, the Iraqi government has repeatedly attacked the anti-Iran protesters, killing hundreds and wounding thousands, while giving a free pass and ready access to the Iran-backed fighters who stormed our embassy.

The media’s goal is to characterize the protests as a wholesale rejection of Trump’s policies in the region, hence the wall-to-wall disinformation about mourning and protesting. What’s actually at stake is Obama’s legacy. The Iran Deal was a bargain in which Iran would be handed control over the Middle East in exchange for some temporary limitations on nuclear activities.

As Obama said, the Saudis — by which he meant Sunnis across the region — would just have to learn to “share the neighborhood” with Iran. The attack on our embassy shows what sharing the region actually means, and the anti-Iran Iraqi protesters are saying they reject it.

Trump has partially withdrawn from the Iran deal, and Tehran is feeling the pressure. Behnam Ben Taleblu, a scholar from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington, recently said the “Death to America” chants are a “dead giveaway” that these protests are being orchestrated by Iran as an effort to shore up its position. “These are pro-Iran and pro-militia sympathizers that appear to be out of touch with the thousands of Iraqis who have been chanting ‘Iran, out!’”

Other parts of Obama’s legacy, however, persist. One of the most glaring in the aftermath of the attack on our embassy is that we continue to pour money into countries like Iraq and Lebanon that are outright dominated by the mullahs in Iran through proxies like the Hezbollah militias in those countries.

Inside the administration, Trump loyalists have sought to cut that aid the Deep State has rushed in to preserve those policies. In Congress, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) recently sent around a two-page bill titled the “Stop Sending American Taxpayer Money to Governments Controlled by Terrorists Act.” The bill smartly proposed halting assistance to any Lebanese administration that is improperly influenced by Hezbollah.

Cruz’s bill should be expanded to include any government that is under Iranian control, not just Lebanon, as Iran has made attempts to establish proxy regimes in Syria, Yemen, and Iraq. Given Iran is interested in expanding its hegemony in the region by reproducing the Islamic Revolution in neighboring countries, there is no realm in which American aid should facilitate such activities.

Cruz’s proposal, and likewise an expansion of it, would amount to a full condemnation of what Foundation for the Defense of Democracies’ Tony Badran has labeled the Obama Realignment Doctrine, or. Obama’s strategy to restore a power “balance” in the Middle East by empowering Iran and disfavoring our long-term allies. Such an approach achieved its heyday in the Iran Deal and its repudiation in Trump’s withdrawal.

For those on the left, the current desire to salvage the remnants of Obama’s legacy has come at the expense of revealing the true nature of Iraqi unrest. It’s not only irresponsible but further reveals the level of perpetual dishonesty needed to sustain popular support (or at minimum, acceptance) of the Iran Deal. If your strategy requires lying to justify its existence, perhaps it’s not such a fantastic approach.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/0...ad/?utm_referrer=https://zen.yandex.com&dbr=1

 

[juleswin]

The Iran Deal was a bargain in which Iran would be handed control over the Middle East in exchange for some temporary limitations on nuclear activity

Does anyone with their wits about them really believe that Obama is in the business of handing the ME(Iraq) to Iran. Also the Iran nuclear deal just game them back their money we seized back to them.

Also the so called temporary limits on nuclear activity is the NPT that are also given to other country but with Iran they put in extra measures that other signatories to the treaty did not have to sign.

Trump is following and reinforcing Obama's and Bush's legacy, stop falling for their tricks.

 

[donnay]

No one has damaged Iran more than Obama. Sending a dream plane full of the American cash was a well thought out scheme to get everyone angry with Iran and coax America into the last war in the Middle East.

 

[Zippyjuan]

No one has damaged Iran more than Obama. Sending a dream plane full of the American cash was a well thought out scheme to get everyone angry with Iran and coax America into the last war in the Middle East.

The "boatloads of cash" Obama "gave" Iran was their own money the US had seized long ago. It wasn't any US taxpayer money. Or should the US be taking things which belong to other countries?

 

[Brian4Liberty]

https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/01/the-media-is-lying-about-the-attacks-on-the-embassy-in-baghdad/

FYI, everything in that URL past the “?” is a tracker. I removed it in my quote above.

The article is very anti-Iran, so much so that it sounds neoconservative.

The media has done its best to conflate the attacks with anti-Iran protests that have been happening across Iraq for the last three months, but of course those actual protesters are pro-Iraqi sovereignty demonstrators fed up with the corruption and the broad perception that the Iraqi government is controlled by Iran.

Confirming exactly that accusation, the Iraqi government has repeatedly attacked the anti-Iran protesters, killing hundreds and wounding thousands, while giving a free pass and ready access to the Iran-backed fighters who stormed our embassy.

Now that would be news. I have not heard anything about anti-Iran protests in Iraq. That would be interesting. And if the media is showing one type of protest and claiming it is another, that would be outrageous fraud.

 

[donnay]

The "boatloads of cash" Obama "gave" Iran was their own money the US had seized long ago. It wasn't any US taxpayer money. Or should the US be taking things which belong to other countries?

Washington Times national security correspondent Bill Gertz in February of this year reported that some of the $1.7 billion that the Obama administration officially handed over to the Iranians had ended up in the hands of terrorist groups. Those terrorist groups included Hezbollah, the Houthi rebels in Yemen, and Iran's own Quds Force, the dirty tricks and terror branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

No one knows how much of the $5.7 billion that Obama allowed Iran to access also went to terrorist activities. Or, for that matter, how much went to further research activity on Iran's nuclear bomb project. That awaits a later investigation.

But it's important to note that the Iran nuclear deal also removed some $100 billion in sanctions on Iran. This made Iran once again a big player in the Mideast. It's almost certain that a good piece of that went to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, which by some accounts control as much as 40% of Iran's economy.

It's clear from Obama administration actions, under both his Secretaries of State, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, that the Obama White House despised Israel and did all they could to undermine its security. How else can you explain the enabling of a terrorist-supporting regime?

The Obama administration failed to enforce its own "red line" in Syria on chemical weapons. By doing so, it in effect invited both Russia and Iran into that disintegrating country. Iranian troops today are within striking distance of our one true ally in the region, Israel.

Mideast Disintegration
The disintegration of Libya, the collapse of Egypt, and Turkey's embrace of radical Islam, all took place under Obama's watch. None of them were in the U.S.' interest.

The Mideast has been a mess for decades, but things got markedly worse under Obama. A big reason is the Iran nuclear deal didn't make anyone in the Mideast, Europe or U.S. safer. But it did empower the terrorist-supporting mullahs in Tehran.

The mullahs are now funding terrorism on Israel's border. They're biding their time until they can get another anti-Israel president in the White House. Mullahs with a nuclear weapon will be a nightmare. President Trump has a big job still ahead of him, but in his first year and a half in office he has undone much of Obama's damage.

All of this because the Obama administration signed a deal that not only didn't end Tehran's nuclear program, but merely postponed it for a decade, all while doing nothing about its terrorist activities. Now we find that Obama also helped finance that.

Paying to support terrorism, and not telling the American people about it. Still think the Obama administration was "scandal-free"?

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/obama-iran-terrorism/

 

[donnay]

FYI, everything in that URL past the “?” is a tracker. I removed it in my quote above.

The article is very anti-Iran, so much so that it sounds neoconservative.



Now that would be news. I have not heard anything about anti-Iran protests in Iraq. That would be interesting. And if the media is showing one type of protest and claiming it is another, that would be outrageous fraud.

Duly noted.

 

[Zippyjuan]

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ap-fact-check-trump-revisits-old-fictions-about-iran-money

The $1.8 (actually $1.7 billion) was a debt owed to Iran, which bought military equipment from the U.S. that it never received because relations ruptured when the shah was overthrown in 1979.

The debt was in international arbitration for years. As part of that, Iran paid settlements of more than $2.5 billion to U.S. citizens and businesses.

$400 million, representing the principal and held in a U.S. government trust fund, was paid in cash and flown to Tehran on a cargo plane, which gave rise to Trump’s dramatic accounts of money stuffed in barrels or boxes and delivered in the dead of night.

 

[donnay]

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ap-fact-check-trump-revisits-old-fictions-about-iran-money

From above article:

Washington Times national security correspondent Bill Gertz in February of this year reported that some of the $1.7 billion that the Obama administration officially handed over to the Iranians had ended up in the hands of terrorist groups. Those terrorist groups included Hezbollah, the Houthi rebels in Yemen, and Iran's own Quds Force, the dirty tricks and terror branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Now that would be news. I have not heard anything about anti-Iran protests in Iraq. That would be interesting. And if the media is showing one type of protest and claiming it is another, that would be outrageous fraud.

There have been anti-Iran protests, including attacks on Iranian consulates:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...e-in-southern-Iraq-protests-spread-nationwide

 

[Zippyjuan]

From above article:

Should we seize the assets of other countries because we don't like what they do? Should we tell them how to spend their own money? Should other countries be able to seize US assets if we do something they don't like?

 

[Influenza]

donnay is nothing more than a neocon parrot. "It's ok to steal money from other countries because they might use that money on groups that I consider to be terrorists!" Meanwhile backs a president who funds genocide in Yemen.

 

[donnay]

Obama gave White House welcome to Iran-backed leader of US Embassy attack in Baghdad
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...backed-leader-of-us-embassy-attack-in-baghdad

 

[Zippyjuan]

Obama gave White House welcome to Iran-backed leader of US Embassy attack in Baghdad
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...backed-leader-of-us-embassy-attack-in-baghdad

Trump's bombing and tariffs on Iran led to the attack.

 

[donnay]

Trump's bombing and tariffs on Iran led to the attack.

Yeah you keep telling yourself that. Who's delusional now?

 

[Swordsmyth]

Trump's bombing and tariffs on Iran led to the attack.

The deepstate led to the attack.

 

[Zippyjuan]

Nothing can be Trump's fault. Somebody else ordered the bombing.

 

[donnay]

Nothing can be Trump's fault. Somebody else ordered the bombing.

That's because you're NOT paying attention.

 

[juleswin]

Washington Times national security correspondent Bill Gertz in February of this year reported that some of the $1.7 billion that the Obama administration officially handed over to the Iranians had ended up in the hands of terrorist groups. Those terrorist groups included Hezbollah, the Houthi rebels in Yemen, and Iran's own Quds Force, the dirty tricks and terror branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

It's clear from Obama administration actions, under both his Secretaries of State, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, that the Obama White House despised Israel and did all they could to undermine its security.

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/obama-iran-terrorism/

What happened to you Donnay? why do you all of a sudden care that Obama wasn't sufficiently pro Israel? and you going with the neocons and highlighting Hezbollah and the Houtis as a terrorist group? Stop going down this path, you are so much better than this

 

[donnay]

What happened to you Donnay? why do you all of a sudden care that Obama wasn't sufficiently pro Israel? and you going with the neocons and highlighting Hezbollah and the Houtis as a terrorist group? Stop going down this path, you are so much better than this

I am not with the neocons, nor am I defending Israel. I know there are rogue CIA and other agencies within our government and past administrations that want nothing but war. Trump wanted to get us out of the Middle East, and the leftists and neocons are giving him grief about getting out.

President Trump is adamant about taking care of things swiftly so we are not going to be there like we have been.