Maybe I'm being naive, but, and I've talked about this before, I continue to be amazed that when the U.S.

government tries to sell this new war with Iran and all

of the drama that accompanies it, all the melodramatic claims, they don't even bother. Like,

there's no pretense at all, either on the part of the government or their media allies to even

change the script a little bit that they used to sell prior wars, including the most discredited

one of all, which was Iraq. And not only have they not changed the script, they're using exactly

the same script. They're not even changing the cast of actors that were used to sell the Iraq

war. It's the same people saying exactly the same things. I suppose they're counting on either

people not remembering what happened 25

years ago or enough time having passed for there to be enough people who didn't live through

it or who don't recall it or for them to just be swamped by patriotic fervor and war fever

and not care. Or maybe they are reasoning that, well, it worked in Iraq and even kind of worked in Syria and

Lebanon and Libya and Afghanistan and before that Vietnam.

Why wouldn't it work this time?

As it turns out, polls are showing overwhelmingly, and we maybe do a separate article or video

on this, that it's not working.

The American public is overwhelmingly opposed to this new war for any reasons that I think are so obvious.

And yet Fox News in particular that served as the chief cheerleader for the Iraq war,

accusing everybody who was opposed to it of being pro-terrorist, of not caring about the Iraqi people,

the whole litany of things that we're hearing now.

They cheerlead the war then, they're cheerleading it, they're cheerleading it now, 24 hours a day,

nonstop. They decided that the person they wanted to bring on to explain to the audience why

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