“Now we face the next big test of the west: after Iraq, Iran.”
Garton Ash thus blithely ignored the fact that every last scrap of evidence coming out of Iraq has pointed to only one conclusion -- that Iraq’s “big test” was in fact the West’s big lie. Iraq was offering a threat to precisely no one outside its own borders.
Nevertheless, Garton Ash warned: “we in Europe and the United States have to respond. But how?” (Timothy Garton Ash, “Let's make sure we do better with Iran than we did with Iraq,” The Guardian, January 12, 2006)
The Guardian’s Polly Toynbee joined the propaganda chorus demonizing Iran:
“Now the mad mullahs of Iran will soon have nuclear bombs, are we all doomed?... Do something, someone! But what and who?” (Toynbee, “No more fantasy diplomacy: cut a deal with the mullahs,” The Guardian, February 7, 2006)
Gerard Baker provided the answer in The Times of London:
“The unimaginable but ultimately inescapable truth is that we are going to have to get ready for war with Iran”. (Baker, “Prepare yourself for the unthinkable: war against Iran may be a necessity,” The Times, January 27, 2006)
Why might this be?
“If Iran gets safely and unmolested to nuclear status, it will be a threshold moment in the history of the world, up there with the Bolshevik Revolution and the coming of Hitler.”
Readers will recall near-identical propaganda ahead of the assault on Iraq.
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