Representative Press Blog

Syriana isn't "disgusting leftist propaganda." U.S. policy makers have carried out many crimes against the people in the Middle East, it is not "liberal" to point out the truth. For example, the 1953 coup to oust Mossedeq has been admitted to by the U.S. officially so there is no point in denying it: "In 1953 the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular Prime Minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower Administration believed its actions were justified for strategic reasons; but the coup was clearly a setback for Iran's political development. And it is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in their internal affairs.”" - Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright March 17, 2000 Note that while acknowledging it, the U.S. never apologized for it. Do you have any idea how many Iranians suffered under the Shah? Israel's Mossad and the America's CIA worked with the Shah's secret police, SAVAK, which was ruthless, it tortured and killed many Iranians.

Notice when we hear about the Iran hostage crisis we almost never hear why the hostages were taken in the first place? (the reason was they wanted to hold the Shah accountable for his crimes. They wanted the Shah handed over to them because they were worried the U.S. would once again reinstall the Shah like they did in 1953. The building they took over is the very same building the CIA used to launch the coup that reinstalled the Shah in 1953. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/25/1534210 We are a country that fought to free itself from a king and we have people in our government that undermine a democratic government and force a king upon them! ) http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2005/07/why-were-hostages-taken-us-media.html ) These are not minor crimes and the media overwhelmingly downplays or suppresses these things. Mainstream media keeps the general public in the dark about the many of the actions of U.S. foreign policy. It was not even reported how the Ba'ath party was put into power in the first place! (the U.S orchestrated the coups that put the Ba'ath party into power in Iraq.) Think for a minute how outrageous it is that U.S. media has refused to inform the public about this) The media is incredibly subservient to powerful interests. (Obviously U.S. media wants to play along with the idea "aren't we wonderful, we got rid of Saddam." Telling the public that the U.S. was behind putting the Ba'ath party into power in the first place ruins the story.)

Would you have wanted to be one of the Iraqis on the lists that the CIA handed over to the Ba'ath part to be shot? The CIA actively supported the 1963 coup that brought the Ba'ath party to power and the CIA made lists of people it labeled as communists and gave these lists to "the submachine gun-toting Iraqi National Guardsmen". The people on these CIA lists were "jailed, interrogated, and summarily gunned down, according to former U.S. intelligence officials with intimate knowledge of the executions." ... the mass killings, presided over by Saddam, took place at Qasr al-Nehayat, literally, the Palace of the End.

A former senior U.S. State Department official told UPI: "We were frankly glad to be rid of them. You ask that they get a fair trial? You have to get kidding. This was serious business." US diplomat James Akins served in the Baghdad Embassy at the time. Mr. Akins said, "I knew all the Ba'ath Party leaders and I liked them ... Sure, some people were rounded up and shot but these were mostly communists so that didn't bother us".

What if they were Jews that were rounded up and shot? What if it was Jews whose names we handed over to be killed? You can't see that the actions of these U.S. officials is the same as the Nazis or Nazi collaborators? If someone was talking about people that handed over the names of Jews to be rounded up and shot by the Nazis would you say it is just "liberal propaganda"?