Puppet Masters
Of course, this isn't the first time Netanyahu aggressively pitched the U.S. on war in the Middle East. He did the exact same thing, using the exact same playbook, in the run up to the Iraq war.
Fortunately, we have video evidence of his 2002 testimony to Congress, during which he hyperventilated and exaggerated about Iraq's grave threat to the world as a result of its non-existsent WMDs. The guy was so incredibly wrong on Iraq, to such a disastrous degree, it's amazing anyone listens to him at all anymore.
What follows are two must watch video clips from Netanyahu's 2002 testimony. One of the more memorable - and spectacularly wrong - claims he made back then was when he proclaimed:
AILSA CHANG, HOST:
When former CIA Director John Brennan stopped by our newsroom yesterday, he was wearing jeans, which was a visible nod to his role now as a private citizen. He is now free from decades of reporting for work in a suit. Brennan was here to speak with our co-host Mary Louise Kelly, who's here with us now. Hey there.
MARY LOUISE KELLY, BYLINE: Hey, Ailsa. Yeah, I have interviewed John Brennan a few times over the years both when he was running CIA and before, starting back during the George W. Bush administration. And he has always struck me as tough. This is a guy who has negotiated with the KGB and its successors.
CHANG: Yeah.
KELLY: Also struck me as serious - definitely a dark suit kind of guy. This is a man who considers his words before speaking. So I have watched with interest these last 15 months as he has gone out of his way to criticize and attack President Trump. That is unusual, even unprecedented, I would say...
CHANG: Yeah.
KELLY: ...For a former head of the CIA to do so. So I asked him about it.
Comment: Brennan is beyond livid at Trump. Every now and then he bellows something at him on Twitter.
Well, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em!
Debate over the accord, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), there has been a neglect - playing into Tehran's interests - of how the international community can bring the Iranian regime to its knees, benefiting the Iranian people significantly.
While pressuring Tehran over the JCPOA is necessary, the West can impose even further pressure on the oppressive regime by placing its crosshairs on the country's political situation, its ailing economy and how to support the protesting Iranian population.
Comment: "Oppressive regime", "protesting Iranian population". This sounds like propaganda. See:
Iran Protests Through the Prism of Geopolitics

Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., speaks to reporters at the Republican baseball team's first practice of the year at Eugene Simpson Stadium Park in Alexandria, Virginia, on Wednesday.
Pointed at the large number of GOP members on baseball team who are leaving Congress
Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks suggested in a radio interview that Republicans are retiring en masse because of assassination fears.
Brooks was speaking on "The Dale Jackson Show" about the first Republican practice the Congressional Baseball Game after last year's shooting that left Majority Whip Steve Scalise severely injured.
"We have multiple rings of security, plainclothes, uniform, Capitol Police, other police," he said. "There was a medical vehicle nearby just in case there was a copycat."

NRCC Chairman Steve Stivers says Speaker Paul D. Ryan will continue to be a fundraising juggernaut this cycle, but some GOP operatives aren’t so sure.
'You don't want the captain leaving the ship,' ex-NRCC chairman says
House Republicans' most prolific fundraiser is vowing to continue to do all he can to help them keep the majority in the midterms.
But Speaker Paul D. Ryan's announcement Wednesday that he doesn't want to be a part of that majority next year has only crystalized the perception that the House GOP is in for a drubbing in November.
"It's over," one GOP operative who's worked on House and Senate races said.
Comment: See also:
- House Speaker Paul Ryan will not seek re-election in 2018
- Matt Drudge predicted budget disaster - warned Paul Ryan blocked Trump's 'revolution' indefinitely
- Report: Koch family donated $500,000 to Paul Ryan in last quarter of 2017
- Paul Ryan accused of interfering in Mueller's investigation
- Part of property tax deduction restored in revised tax plan, Paul Ryan
- 'Not now, not in the future': Recording of Paul Ryan's anti-Trump pledge emerges
- Paul Ryan thinks Iran nuclear deal likely to stay

Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, April 22, 2018.
It publishes disinformation, Big Lies and fake news they want published - suppressing what's most important to report on major issues, notably geopolitical ones.
Natalia Veselnitskaya is a private Russian attorney, unconnected to the Kremlin.
Last summer, disinformation about her circulated for days, making much ado about nothing over her meeting with Donald Trump, Jr.
Haley is viewed positively by some 63 per cent of US voters, while only 39 per cent gave their approval of US President Donald Trump. Haley's popularity also stretched to both sides of the political spectrum, with 75 per cent of Republicans, 55 per cent of Democrats and 63 per cent of Independents supporting the former South Carolina governor. She was only exceeded by former president Barack Obama, who was still held in high regard by some 66 per cent of voters.
The UN envoy has taken strong stands in favour of Israel, particularly in the aftermath of the US' recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital in December. When the UN General Assembly voted to condemn the Trump administration's decision, Haley slammed the global forum as ungrateful for US contributions to the organisation.
"No vote in the UN will make any difference to that [the decision]. But this vote will make a difference to how the Americans see the UN. This vote will be remembered," she concluded, echoing her previous comments that the delegation would be taking names of those who voted against the recognition.
Comment: See full poll here. What this poll really tells us is that 63% of people who took part in the survey don't actually know who Nikki Haley is: a lying warmongering weasel who represents Israel.
The allegations about Iran's nuclear program made by the Israeli prime minister during his televised address from Tel Aviv might, in fact, be an argument in favor of the 2015 nuclear accord and not against it, officials from several countries said, reacting to Benjamin Netanyahu's presentation.
"It is clear that the international community had doubts that Iran was carrying out an exclusively peaceful nuclear program," Steffen Seibert, the spokesman of the German government, told journalists, commenting on the Israeli prime minister's speech. "It was for this reason the nuclear accord was signed in 2015, including the implementation of an unprecedented, thorough and robust surveillance system by the International Atomic Energy Agency."
Technical failures and "missed interval" disrupted two-thirds of еру French cruise missiles launches during the April 14 US-led coalition operation in Syria.
Following the April 14 missile strike on Syria, some French media outlets and military blogs claimed that two of three French Navy vessels deployed for the strike had failed to launch Missile de Croisière Naval (MdCN) cruise missiles.
On April 18, spokesman for the French Joint Chief of Staff, Army Colonel Patrick Steiger told Defense News on April 18 that "The first salvo did not fire."MdCN is a longer-range sea-launched variant of the Storm Shadow/SCALP EG air-launched cruise missile developed for the French Navy.












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