article<\/a> <\/strong>today on the Iraqi government’s plan to shut down the camp of the Mujaheddin-e Khalq, or MEK.\u00a0 This is a violent Marxist organization that was designated by the State Department as terrorists in 1997 because of their long record of killing civilians (they also killed some Americans).\u00a0 But the Post characterizes MEK as merely an “Iranian opposition group.”<\/p>\nThe Bush administration -especially Dick Cheney – \u00a0loved and protected the MEK because the MEK ginned up information to justify threatening to attack Iran. The Post notes that “U.S. officials credit the MEK with providing information about Iran’s nuclear program.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Post neglects to mention that MEK’s allegations turned out to be crap and were debunked by a National Intelligence Estimate in late 2007.<\/p>\n
MEK sanctified U.S. aggression, and thus they were the good guys.\u00a0 The Washington Post’s<\/em> Middle East reporting continues its hallowed tradition of rising above the facts…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not all terrorists are equally damndable, apparently. The Washington Post has an article today on the Iraqi government’s plan to shut down the camp of the Mujaheddin-e Khalq, or MEK.\u00a0 This is a violent Marxist organization that was designated by the State Department as terrorists in 1997 because of their long record of killing civilians […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[22,659,10,26,661],"class_list":{"0":"post-797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"tag-attention-deficit-democracy","8":"tag-bush","9":"tag-terrorism"},"yoast_head":"\n
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