Comments on: IAEA: Traces of Uranium Found in Syrian Reactor http://news.antiwar.com/2009/06/05/iaea-traces-of-uranium-found-in-syrian-reactor/ Original and up-to-date news Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:18:45 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Valerianus http://news.antiwar.com/2009/06/05/iaea-traces-of-uranium-found-in-syrian-reactor/comment-page-1/#comment-2155 Valerianus Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:01:47 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/?p=4193#comment-2155 As always seems to be this case in these insinuations of wrongdoing in Islamic nuclear programs, the details given out in U.S. media sources are so vague as to be laughable. When I read the headline that traces of uranium were found in a Syrian reactor, my immediate exclamation was, "Well, it's a reactor! Why wouldn't there be traces of uranium?" What it all boils down to is the U.S. government's cynical manipulation of the crass stupidity and ignorance of the U.S. populace to instill fear and thereby create "facts on the ground" to justify further U.S. military aggression. The media, which no longer has a role of critique, dutifully carries out its self-appointed task of being a megaphone for the government's propaganda. Thus does sloth and ignorance abet evil. As always seems to be this case in these insinuations of wrongdoing in Islamic nuclear programs, the details given out in U.S. media sources are so vague as to be laughable. When I read the headline that traces of uranium were found in a Syrian reactor, my immediate exclamation was, "Well, it's a reactor! Why wouldn't there be traces of uranium?"

What it all boils down to is the U.S. government's cynical manipulation of the crass stupidity and ignorance of the U.S. populace to instill fear and thereby create "facts on the ground" to justify further U.S. military aggression. The media, which no longer has a role of critique, dutifully carries out its self-appointed task of being a megaphone for the government's propaganda. Thus does sloth and ignorance abet evil.

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