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 taxpayer money was wasted.

In 2002 we were told that we had to go to war against Iraq, that Iraq was building weapons of mass destruction, and that if we did not act quickly and decisively nuclear weapons would fall on America. Among those who told us that was none other than Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, who stated in testimony before Congress: “There is no question whatsoever that Saddam is seeking... nuclear weapons... If you take out Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations." The United States invaded Iraq and became embroiled in a long civil war there. No weapons of mass destruction were ever found. That war was based on a lie – a lie which cost us 4,492 young Americans, 32,000 wounded, over half a million Iraqis and trillions of dollars.

The American people were lied to about Vietnam, with tragic consequences.

The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences.

The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself. The U.S. faces enormous problems here at home, which we must address. We cannot allow ourselves to be dragged into another Middle East war based on lies.

Trump won’t say where he got the intelligence from that he based his decision to bomb Iran on, but all signs point to Netanyahu and Israel.

The mainstream media has shown for decades that it loves the profits that come from the US being at war, so I would expect the number of people who will seriously question what is coming out of the White House to be few.

Israel decided to fight a war of choice against Iran, and that is their business. The American people did not ask for or want this war, and more of us need to challenge what the White House until they deliver real proof to back up their claims.

Otherwise, the American people are being lied to again.

What do you think of Sen. Sanders’s statement? Let’s talk about it in the comments below.