Bush plans huge propaganda campaign in Iran
From The Guardian Today
The Bush administration made an emergency request to Congress yesterday for a seven-fold increase in funding to mount the biggest ever propaganda campaign against the Tehran government, in a further sign of the worsening crisis between Iran and the west.
... the extra funds, on top of $10m already allocated for later this year, would be used to broadcast US radio and television programmes into Iran, help pay for Iranians to study in America and support pro-democracy groups inside the country.
With phrases like "nuclear crisis" and "pro-democracy spending" being bandied about - how long before the US hawks decide that the only way to "save" Iran for "democracy" is to destroy it?
With a recent record of leaving "liberated" countries with smashed infrastructures and huge problems that amount to poliitcal anarchy - you'd think that the US would spend the money fixing up the countries already broken - not starting on a new one.
Are we in the "New Cold War" yet?
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