Reply #56: Yes [View All]

It's just that when I see these kind of stories circulating like they did about Iraq prior to the 2003 invasion, it just further fuels my suspicion that TPTB are intentionally circulating them to attempt to drum up support for attacking Iran or otherwise trying to keep the subject focused on Iran, which seems to have become the new focal point for our foreign policy now that our attention-challenged President and genocidal co-President are bored with Iraq and Afghanistan. Not only that but the fact that these stories are about gays is equally enraging because TPTB really don't care much about GLBT individuals or their concerns in THIS country and some individuals HERE in the US, albeit a small minority, already advocate dealing with GLBT individuals in a similar fashion. I'm certainly not defending the thugs running Iran and think that their human rights record is just about as abhorrent as some of our arab/muslim allies (i.e. Saudi Arabia) but I just can't shake the suspicion that stories like these are being used, albeit in a surreptitious manner, to try to drum up support for an eventual attack on Iran, particularly when viewed in the context of the current MSM focus on Iran, Bush making remarks about Iran and starting WWIII, and recent reports about interrogators in Iraq attempting to establish links between Iraqi insurgents and Iran.