Source: Global Research.caRobert Parry
The
U.S. press corps and “independent” American weapons experts got almost
everything wrong about Iraq’s purported WMD before the U.S. invasion in
2003. Now, much the same cast is returning to interpret dubious
intelligence about Iran’s nuclear program, reports Robert Parry.
The American public is about to be inundated with
another flood of “expert analysis” about a dangerous Middle Eastern
country presumably hiding a secret nuclear weapons program that may
require a military strike, although this time it is Iran, not Iraq.
In the near future, you will be seeing more satellite
photos of non-descript buildings that experts will say are housing
elements of a nuclear bomb factory. There will be more diagrams of
supposed nuclear devices. Some of the same talking heads will
reappear to interpret this new “evidence.”
You might even recognize some of those familiar faces
from the more innocent days of 2002-2003 when they explained, with
unnerving confidence, how Iraq’s Saddam Hussein surely had chemical and
biological weapons and likely a nuclear weapons program, too.
For instance, back then, former United Nations
weapons inspector David Albright was all over the news channels,
reinforcing the alarmist claims about Iraq’s WMD that were coming from
President George W. Bush and his neocon-dominated administration.
Today, Albright’s Institute for Science and
International Security (ISIS) is issuing a flurry of alarmist reports
about Iran’s nuclear bomb progress, often accompanied by the same kind
of satellite photos and diagrams that helped persuade many Americans
that Iraq must possess unconventional weapons that turned out to be
fictitious.
