The editors at the Washington Post let this go forward. They've published a Washington Post Syndicate column titled "Iran’s fingerprints in Fallujah."
The claim goes that Iran has inserted Al Qaeda agents into Fallujah, Iraq, where they are making various mischief and have enabled an Al Qaeda invasion of Ramadi and Fallujah.
This is crazy stuff.
We do know that the RWNJs have gone overboard for the "Straight Line" persuasion system. SLIPS is all about point-of-sale propaganda. Verifiable facts don't matter. Getting caught in lies doesn't matter. What does matter is that they project imagery that appeals to their target audience.
In fact, back here in the real world: the Al Qaeda people are fanatical Salafi Sunnis. Every one of us who paid attention to Usama bin Laden knows that.
On the other hand: Iran as well as Maliki and his people are Shia. There is no way the Shia are backing Salafi fanatics.
There's no two religious groups on earth who are less on the same page than Salafis and the Shia. In Iraq these extremist Salafis finance suicide bombings that murder hundreds of Shia every year. They are mortal enemies.
But going off crazy with "Iran’s Fingerprints in Fallujah" kicks an image of White House weakness. It tries, desperately, to tie Iran to Al Qaeda. So this trash goes on the WaPo editorial page. It drops names of Iraqis and Iranians. It lies the WaPo xss off. This is as bad on the facts as Birther Madness.
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