Iran and the CIA Fig Leaf

Silence is not an option. I vigorously spoke out against the Neocon invasion of Iraq in 2003, and I vigorously oppose the Neocon invasion of Iran today. And I don’t care how many CIA-generated fig leaves my critics present as incontrovertible justifications for this madness.

These days, everyone knows the 2003 US invasion of Iraq did more harm to Christians in the Middle East than did the Islamic regime the Bush Boys set out to topple. I have met hundreds of displaced Iraqi Catholics since that happened. On the Chartres Pilgrimage in 2005, for example, a whole chapter of Iraqi Catholics joined us on pilgrimage. When they entered the Cathedral to attend Latin Mass with the very people who’d bombed their homeland to hell, I stood up and applauded them, tears in my eyes. It was the first and last time I applauded in church.

If the lessons of Covid were not enough to convince you not to trust the (political) science, then the lessons of the Iraq War debacle should be more than adequate.

So, no, we’re not doing this again. If the lessons of Covid were not enough to convince you not to trust the (political) science, then the lessons of the Iraq War debacle should be more than adequate. I mean, it’s kind of a no-brainer, given the hellish havoc our regime-changes have unleashed on our Christian brothers and sisters in Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, etc., so far.

Let’s just take Iraq, for example. The American Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation recently released a study on the horrors Washington has unleashed on Middle East Christians: “Christianity is under attack across the globe but especially in the Middle East…There are around only 150,000 Christians left in Iraq. Many Christians are seriously affected by intolerance and persecution. They face discrimination from government authorities. According to The World Watch List, (an annual ranking of the 50 countries where Christians face the most extreme persecution), Iraq is ranked 14th in the world. Being a Christian costs livelihood, safety, purity and, very often, lives. Iraq remains plagued by conflict and sectarian violence.”

In his July 2022 Cato Institute article, Doug Bandow writes “In recent years Christians…have suffered through a tsunami of persecution and violence [and] nowhere has the horror been worse than Iraq…Today, Iraq’s Christian population is down about 80 percent. More than a million Christians – estimates varied – called Iraq home a couple decades ago. They were able to live their faith and worship freely. Saddam Hussein was a terrible dictator, but he was a secular tyrant…who cared not at all about which god they worshipped. Tariz Aziz, Saddam Hussein’s deputy prime minister, was a member of the Chaldean Catholic Church…In no Arab state other than Syria, another secular dictatorship, did non-Muslims serve in such positions of political authority.”

Then along came the Christian Zionists and blew it all to hell.

I will use every means at my disposal to wake people up. It’s 2003 all over again.

So, yes, I will use every means at my disposal to wake people up. It’s 2003 all over again. And do you know what else is happening all over again? I first noticed this phenomenon back in 2003 when The Remnant was among the very few conservative voices in the world that protested the Iraq invasion out of the gate (check out our online archive if you have any doubt about that). What I noticed was that the folks on the Left tended to do their homework, whereas the conservatives were content to regurgitate CIA talking points ad nauseum: “Saddam gassed his own people!” Did he? Shame on him! “Saddam has weapons of mass destruction, he’s gonna kill us if we don’t kill him first.” Yeah? So, Jesus wants us to incinerate his country? And what happens to the Christians after we “take out” Saddam?

Even to the extent that Saddam was a nutjob who did indeed crack down hard on his political opposition, still his dictatorship hardly justified our bombing Iraq to smithereens. “Yeah, but he gassed his own people, dammit!”

Twenty years later, everyone knows that our war on Iraq was about oil, power, and Israel. It had nothing to do with Don Rumsfeld and Dick Chaney’s tele-prompted compassion for the people of Iraq. And neither did it have anything to do with democracy or any other cause célèbre the CIA had assigned a young Sean Hannity to trot out on Fox News every night.

Nothing happening right now comes as a surprise to this writer, not even frightened friends of mine taking their eyes off Fox News long enough to admonish me for failing to enlist in the new Crusade.

Since 2003, even many talking heads from Fox News had to finally admit the truth—Bill O’Reilly eventually apologized for “freedom fries” and other lies; Laura Ingraham admitted she’d missed the mark; Tucker Carlson is so mortified now that he’s doing backflips trying to make amends for having sold vats of Neocon cool aid in 2003.

And so today we’re all trying to make sure people are not deceived by CIA Fig Leaves that seem awfully familiar: “The Iranian mullah killed 30,000 of his own people!” Okay. That’s terrible! And what happens to the Christians after we “take out” Ali Khamenei?

“The Iranian people are celebrating liberation in the streets!” Yep, that’s what happens after every CIA-backed color revolution. In Baghdad, in fact, the “liberated” Iraqis even tore down a statue of Saddam Hussein, while the American superpatriots wept with pride over their amazing exceptionalism. This was right before an Islamic extremist regime took over and the Shiite hit the fan.

Long story short—nothing happening right now comes as a surprise to this writer, not even frightened friends of mine taking their eyes off Fox News long enough to admonish me for failing to enlist in the new Crusade: “It’s Lepanto all over again, man!” Is it? Because to me it looks an awful lot like LeNeocon all over again, man!

My hope is that maybe this time it won’t take twenty years for the good guys to figure out they’re being scammed by people who don’t give a literal FIG about the Iranian people.

Back in 2003, there were only a handful of us who tried to make our voices heard over the din of pounding war drums—Pat Buchanan, Lew Rockwell, Tom Woods, Ron Paul, The Remnant. That was about it. The superpatriots had no idea what we were talking about and didn’t care: “The terrorists hate our freedom, man, and our democracy. Crank the Lee Greenwood, and let’s roll!”

And, so, we ended up with some strange bedfellows—Anti-war dot com, Noam Chomsky, a handful of other liberals who, like us, were trying to tell the CIA to pound fig leaves. Nobody listened and, in the end, the Iraqi Christians were driven out or killed by the millions. America was saddled with the draconian Patriot Act, and like a bunch of trained monkeys, we’ve all been taking our shoes off in airports ever since. For what? Nobody remembers.

And so here we go again – repeating the history we were programmed to forget, with “superpatriots” tying CIA fig leaves to old oak trees, parroting the nightly justification memos a graying Sean Hannity got from the freshman class over at the CIA.

Is it moral? Of course it is! Senator Ted Cruisemissile says it’s exactly what Jesus would do! And so, it’s time for the Godly ones to shoot the messengers again. Why? Because we remember the history and refuse to repeat the lies.

Consider the possibility that this is all part of a Globalist cult, hellbent on destroying America by luring her “conservative” leaders into a prolonged series of Neocon death traps.

My hope is that maybe this time it won’t take twenty years for the good guys to figure out they’re being scammed by people who don’t give a literal FIG about the Iranian people. And what’s their end game? Exactly!

At some point, we’re going to have to consider the possibility that this is all part of a Globalist cult, hellbent on destroying America by luring her “conservative” leaders into a prolonged series of Neocon death traps that will eventually leave us licking our wounds and limping back home to the sound of Israeli school children practicing their Chinese. (I’ve long thought there must be a reason Chinese is such a popular second language in Zionist schools.)

So, I understand if you hate me for this. We lost over half of our Remnant newspaper subscribers the last time we told Uncle Sam to pound sand. So, if that means this is where we part company, well, we’ll see you in twenty years, and long live Christ the King. 

P.S. Before you go—this guy’s not a conservative but he offers a lot of food for thought. Even if he’s right or close to right on just half of what he says, we’re in trouble.