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| The Media Is Lying About The Attacks On The Embassy In Baghdad |
| 2020-01-02 |
| [The Federalist] 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. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #11 Jihad's Dream PR Dhimmi Team. PMSMSNBC: By Bombing Hezbollah, Trump Is Bombing ‘War Heroes’… Muslim terrorist and Democrat terrorist sympathizers call them war heroes, us humans just call them terrorist. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2020-01-02 19:42 |
| #10 A truth is that the Shites were setting up a seige and then they suddenly left 'for some reason'. |
| Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 2020-01-02 19:35 |
| #9 Demedia Lied, No diplos died |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-01-02 18:12 |
| #8 What ruprecht said at #5. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2020-01-02 12:21 |
| #7 I love the term Trump's Benghazi because it reminds everyone of the Benghazi failure and contrasts it to what could have happened if some Marines were sent in support. The distinguishing feature of The Shitshow is the SS clowns' unfailing refusal to recognize how stupid and absurd their antics are. They truly believe their BS, and cannot imagine any other reality than the one enclosed by their absurd little SS tent. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-01-02 09:52 |
| #6 The Media Is Lying Fixed: Courtesy of The Redundancy Police |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2020-01-02 09:38 |
| #5 I love the term Trump's Benghazi because it reminds everyone of the Benghazi failure and contrasts it to what could have happened if some Marines were sent in support. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2020-01-02 08:35 |
| #4 They were quietly being detained by the Iraqi authorities for.... further questioning. One here, one there. Finally someone in authority noticed their absence. My guess, and only guess. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-01-02 08:14 |
| #3 The MSM is lying? That's what they do. Why pay for them to lie? The Iranian-rent-a-mob left the embassy early? They had intended to stay for longer. Who were their ultimate paymasters? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-01-02 08:04 |
| #2 When are they not lying? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-01-02 07:21 |
| #1 The media attempted to frame the event at "Trump's Benghazi." It did not work. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-01-02 04:12 |