[lbo-talk] dee-lux propaganda hook comin' your way

[Jim Devine]

There was a story on US National Public Radio awhile back that indicated 
that those who participated in the embassy take-over in 1979 were esteemed 
nowadays. So it's hardly surprising if someone in that group now became 
President. (After all, several people (e.g., Eisenhower, Kennedy) have 
become President of the US based partly on their participation in 
enterprises popularly seen as heroic.)

Of course, that doesn't seem a justification for a US war on Iran. 

Ex-Hostages Say Iran Leader-Elect a Captor
> 
> By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer 28 minutes
> ago
> 
> WASHINGTON - The White House said Thursday it is
> taking seriously the allegations of some former
> American hostages who say they believe that
> Iran's president-elect was one of their captors in the
> late 1970s.
> 
> "I think the news reports and statements from several
> former American hostages raise many questions about
> his past," White House press secretary Scott McClellan
> said of the Iranian president-elect Mahmoud
> Ahmadinejad. "We take them very seriously and we are
> looking into them to better understand the facts."
> 
-- 
Jim Devine
"Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people 
talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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