PHOTOSHOPPING SYRIAN NUKE PICS

From the Los Angeles Times courtesy of AlterNet:

SYRIA: More questions about alleged nuclear site

The note raises more questions about the evidence shown last week by U.S. intelligence officials to lawmakers in the House and Senate.

The author of the note pinpoints irregularities about the photographs. Beeman's source alleges that the CIA "enhanced" some of the images.

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The author points to more questions about the photographs of the Syrian site.

1. Satellite photos of the alleged reactor building show no air defenses or anti-aircraft batteries such as the ones found around the Natanz nuclear site in central Iran.
2. The satellite images do not show any military checkpoints on roads near the building.
3. Where are the power lines? The photos show neither electricity lines or substations.

More here, including the photos in question.

Okay, it's pretty safe to say at this point that we know for sure that the current administration, at least, has absolutely no problem with lying to the American public to get us into a war--Iraq's non-existent weapons of mass destruction serve as the smoking gun here, which was clearly not in the shape of a mushroom cloud, not in the shape of anything, really, because there weren't any WMD in Iraq when we invaded. We also know that the agencies under Bush's control are willing to keep on lying, or at least willing to covertly alter news coverage, in order to keep us at war.

And now we're seeing some saber-rattling about Syria's supposed nuclear weapons capability.

Why the fuck should we believe a damned thing these people have to say about anything at all? At this point, the American people are total suckers if they buy this business about Syria without any independent corroboration. But then, there's a big difference between the American people and the political/media establishment. They're already suckers, and if they get behind this dubious nuclear Syria story, and keep pounding away at it like Goebbels, there just might be enough gumption among the elite to open yet another front in the endless War on Terror.

For some reason, Nancy Pelosi continues to keep impeachment off the table, faux liberal that she is. She's just as bad as Bush.

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