The Similiarties Between Iraq and Iran are too Obvious to Ignore

After the post-election riots in Iran many nations sternly criticized the actions of the Iranian security forces. But early this week it was revealed that the rioters emotional flames were stoked by outside terrorists.

I really am convinced that the UK and the US had a hand in stirring up the emotions of the Iranian people - not that the Iranians didn't have a reason to feel upset - and manipulated what was actually going on there, via the media. Our government wants us emotionally involved.

The US and its European allies accuse Iran of developing nuclear weapons - a charge continuously rejected by Iran. The UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), also says it has not found any evidence to support the US's claims.

Does this sound familiar yet? Think back to the months prior to the invasion of Iraq. Remember being told how Saddam Hussein was a terrible dictator (he was, but is it really the place of the US to oust him, we don't do it for other countries like Burma) followed by the claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) The claim that Iraq had WMDs was shot down repeatedly by the United Nations but was ignored by the US. It was only later that the American people were told that we had been mislead - after hundreds of American deaths and thousands of Iraqi deaths. Now, the same day that the US began its withdraw from Iraq, the first oil fields went up for auction. Coincidence?

If you can't see where this is heading by now, then you probably have the same IQ as Sarah Palin (South Africa is a country, not a continent? What countries are in North America?). Iran has huge oil reserves and the US has the nation surrounded on all sides. Just on Monday US forces attempted to hijack an Iranian oil field near the boarder with Iraq, which also coincidentally occurred the same day that the troop withdraw began.

There a lot of people out there that may call me a conspiracy theorist, hell sometimes it is from my own family. But I challenge you, turn off your TV for a week or two and get your news somewhere other than CNN, MSNBC, or FOX (I like presstv.com). You will find that suddenly, without all of the hypnotic advertisements and media correspondents that bombard your household more often than not, you will see that there are more questions that need to be asked. Questions that the media outlets love to quickly hurdle over, or ignore all together.

Don't ignore the similarities between what happened (and still is happening) in Iraq to what is beginning in Iran. To do so would be asinine.