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The lies that built a war Deconstructing Washingtons shifting justifications for attacking Iran

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The lies that built a war: Deconstructing Washington’s shifting justifications for attacking Iran

MADRID – One way to analyze the current U.S. aggression against Iran is through the political language that precedes and organizes it. In 2003, the invasion of Iraq was justified by a discursive apparatus centered on weapons of mass destruction that never appeared. The sequence is known: first, a set of propositions is presented as self-evident; then, reality is read through them. The decision for war does not emerge from the evidence. The evidence is adapted to the decision.

The lies that built a war: Deconstructing Washington’s shifting justifications for attacking Iran