Bernie Sanders Says What The Media Won't: The American People Are Being Lied To About Iran

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said what many Americans are thinking that they are being lied to about Iran.

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When it comes to wars, the United States has a recent history of misleading its own people. Donald Trump has ignored the assessment from the US intelligence community and put the nation in the middle of a conflict in the Middle East.

The corporate media has shown its usual lust for war combined with its unwillingness to challenge the Trump administration.

Few people in elective office have been willing to publicly question what they are being told.

Sen. Bernie Sanders is one of those people.

In a statement, Sen. Sanders said about Trump’s bombing of Iran:

In the 1960s the United States government lied to the American people and took us into a terrible war in Vietnam. The result of that war was that over 58,000 young Americans died and many more came back wounded both in mind and in spirit. Millions of Vietnamese were also killed. Hundreds of billions of dollars of taxp…