At the time of the Iraq war, I was aware that Americans did not even know the difference between Iran and Iraq, let alone know where these countries were located. Of course Iraq is a much smaller country than Iran, and USA like to pick on the litlle guys - so Iraq is a 'poor' cousin to Iran, after all the twenty years of demonizing Iran, which was the real 'target'.
But, during these confusing times of crying about 'babies being thrown from hospital incubators' there was the small issue of Kuwait, who was slant-drilling under the border, to access Iraqi oil-fields. This is otherwise known as stealing. What should have been a local spat between neighboring countries about the legality of slant-drilling into neighboring oil-fields, turned out to be a USA campaign of BOmb, Bomb, bOmB, Let's bomb Iraq. But keep in mind that the neo-cons really had wished it was IRan. Yay for de-escalationism.
That attempt to make a WMD narrative for Iran was quickly subverted into one for Iraq by the first Bush admin. Now the narrative is back on the table, because Iraq was SO successful, everybody.
At the time of the Iraq war, I was aware that Americans did not even know the difference between Iran and Iraq, let alone know where these countries were located.
Stopped reading here because this is so dumb. Americans knew exactly where Iran and Iraq were. We went through the hostage crises with Ted Koppel coming on at 1130 every night for over a year. Americans watched and this viewership led to 30 years of Nightline.
Then the Iran-Iraq war.
There were Tees all over stating Ayatollah Assahola.
At the time of the Iraq war, I was aware that Americans did not even know the difference between Iran and Iraq, let alone know where these countries were located. Of course Iraq is a much smaller country than Iran, and USA like to pick on the litlle guys - so Iraq is a 'poor' cousin to Iran, after all the twenty years of demonizing Iran, which was the real 'target'.
But, during these confusing times of crying about 'babies being thrown from hospital incubators' there was the small issue of Kuwait, who was slant-drilling under the border, to access Iraqi oil-fields. This is otherwise known as stealing. What should have been a local spat between neighboring countries about the legality of slant-drilling into neighboring oil-fields, turned out to be a USA campaign of BOmb, Bomb, bOmB, Let's bomb Iraq. But keep in mind that the neo-cons really had wished it was IRan. Yay for de-escalationism.
That attempt to make a WMD narrative for Iran was quickly subverted into one for Iraq by the first Bush admin. Now the narrative is back on the table, because Iraq was SO successful, everybody.
Stopped reading here because this is so dumb. Americans knew exactly where Iran and Iraq were. We went through the hostage crises with Ted Koppel coming on at 1130 every night for over a year. Americans watched and this viewership led to 30 years of Nightline.
Then the Iran-Iraq war.
There were Tees all over stating Ayatollah Assahola.
Americans knew exactly where Iran and Iraq were.
Yes, but you see, I was there. Most people did not pay attention. There was a narrative shift from Iran to Iraq.