{"id":227094,"date":"2016-02-23T18:30:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T18:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=227094"},"modified":"2016-11-30T01:37:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T00:37:12","slug":"gallup-poll-shows-americans-prefer-terrorist-nations-over-iran-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/gallup-poll-shows-americans-prefer-terrorist-nations-over-iran-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallup Poll Shows Americans Prefer Terrorist Nations Over Iran. Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

A February 17th Gallup Poll<\/a><\/span>\u00a0showed that Americans prefer the chief nation that sponsors international terrorism, when given a choice between that terrorist-sponsoring nation and Iran. The disapproval shown of Iran is 79%; the approval is 14%. Back in 2014, the disapproval\/approval were 84%\/12%. At that time, Saudi Arabia had figures of 57%\/35%. Iran was seen by Americans as being even more hostile toward Americans than is Saudi Arabia.<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

Americans are profoundly misinformed about international relations \u2014 and there\u2019s a reason for this: the deep corruption within the American Establishment (the people who shape American political opinions).<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are the facts: 92% of Saudi Arabians approve of ISIS.<\/span><\/a> That country\u2019s leadership \u2014 both the Saud family who own the country, and their clerics \u2014 teach them this way<\/span><\/a>. In fact: on youtube you can see the \u201cFormer Imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Adel Kalbani: Daesh ISIS have the same beliefs as we do,\u201d<\/span><\/a> and he has high religious authority in Saudi Arabia. And, so, how can the Saudi public be blamed for believing what they hear in their churches \u2014 the mosques \u2014 such as that ISIS are devout believers, like they themselves are? Those clerics keep the ideology, and keep the royal family in power. That\u2019s why the Saud family fund their clergy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fifteen of the nineteen 9\/11 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, and the bookkeeper\/bagman who had collected, in cash, every one of the million-dollar-plus donations to Al Qaeda up till 9\/11, said under oath, in U.S. court-testimony which Western news-media have hidden from the public: virtually all of the Saudi Princes, and many of their close friends (each of which individuals he identified by name) were $1M+ donors to the Al Qaeda organization; and, without those funds, any attacks such as 9\/11 would have been simply impossible for them to do.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bag-man and bookkeeper for Osama bin Laden was captured by the United States and was sent to a maximum-security U.S. prison where he is unable to speak to anyone, but the 9\/11 families managed to get\u00a0his testimony in a court case that they were bringing against Al Qaeda<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u2014 against the people behind it, the people who fund it, the people who enabled Osama bin Laden to hire and train the 9\/11 hijackers \u2014\u00a0and this man who had personally picked up in cash each one of the million-dollar-plus donations to Al Qaeda<\/i>, named many of the leading Saudi Princes and their closest friends as having been the people who had provided the funds. And he said: \u201cWithout the money of the \u2014 of the Saudi, you will\u00a0have nothing\u201d of Al Qaeda.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s one exchange:<\/span><\/p>\n

Q: To clarify, you\u2019re saying that\u00a0the al-Qaeda members received\u00a0salaries?<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

A: They do, absolutely.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The royals\u2019 \u2018charity\u2019 that pays not only Al Qaeda but ISIS and other such organizations, is from the donors, to their warriors; the warriors are being paid by those \u2018charitable donations.\u2019 That\u2019s what pays their salaries. Jihadist organizations are religious charities \u2014 whose aim is to spread the Islamic faith (which is why the mullahs or ‘holy men,’ who are also being paid by that same Saud family, approve of the Sauds to be the rulers).<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another exchange:<\/span><\/p>\n

Q: What \u2014 what was bin Laden\u2019s attitude towards\u00a0the Saudi ulema <\/i>[the religious scholars, the clerics]?<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

A: It was of complete reverence and obedience. <\/i>[It\u00a0was like a Roman Catholic\u2019s attitude] toward the\u00a0Pope.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Among the mega-donors that he could remember off the top of his head were Prince Waleed bin Talal al-Saud<\/span><\/a>, Prince Turki al-Faisal al-Saud<\/span><\/a>, Prince Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud<\/span><\/a> (affectionately known in the U.S. as \u201cBandar Bush\u201d (he was Saudi Arabia\u2019s U.S. Ambassador at the time of 9\/11; he later became Chief of Saudi intelligence).<\/span><\/p>\n

The bagman explained:<\/span><\/p>\n

The Saudi government is \u2014 they have two heads of\u00a0the\u00a0snake, they have the Saudi, like Al Saud, and\u00a0the Wahhabi <\/i>[clerics]\u00a0were in charge of the Islamic\u00a0Code of the Islam <\/i>[the lawmakers and judges]\u00a0\u2014 or Islamic power in\u00a0Saudi\u00a0Arabia, okay, and that\u2019s why they have the name\u00a0\u2018Wahhabi,\u2019 okay,\u00a0okay. So the Saudi\u00a0<\/i>[the Saud royal family]\u00a0cannot keep<\/i>\u00a0[the Executive or ruling]\u00a0power in Saudi Arabia without having the\u00a0agreement, okay, of the Wahhab, the Wahhabi, the\u00a0scholar<\/i> [the clerics, who interpret the Quran, the nation\u2019s real Constitution<\/span><\/a>), okay.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

One might reasonably wonder, then: why do Americans hate and fear Iran, over and above even the nation \u2014 the royal family and their clerics \u2014 that were actually behind 9\/11? Might it be, perhaps, because the Shia clerics of Iran are as fundamentalist as the Sunni ones in Saudi Arabia? Not at all; but, yet, Americans seem to assume that that\u2019s the case.<\/span><\/p>\n

The American public are duped by lying \u2018news\u2019 media, which don\u2019t let them know the reality \u2014 the American people are kept in the dark.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Sauds, the one family who own Saudi Arabia, hate the Iranian public, just as much as they hate the American public<\/span><\/a>; and they do so because they (the Saud family) intend ultimately (their descendants) to conquer and rule over both, and over the entire world. But first, they need to kill all Shiites (and Iran is ruled by Shiites)<\/span><\/a>, because otherwise even the Islamic world itself won\u2019t be united. Without a united Islam, how could they have a chance ultimately to conquer the non<\/i>-Islamic world? It wouldn\u2019t even be possible \u2014 and they know this. In fact, their nation was created in 1744 by a mutual oath between Mohammed Ibn Saud and Mohammed Ibn Wahhab that embodied it<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The U.S. aristocracy have been allied with the Saudi royal family for decades. When the fascist John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles had Kim Roosevelt<\/span><\/a> \u2014 Teddy Roosevelt\u2019s fascist grandson \u2014 organize the 1953 CIA overthrow of the progressive democratic secular freely elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, and install there the barbaric Shah and his torture-chambers, it sparked the Iranian public to hate Americans, who had brought this hell to them. The Eisenhower Administration did this.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then, in 1979, came the Iranian revolution installing not a Mossadegh-type secular democracy such as America overthrew, but instead a Shiite clerical dictatorship, to replace the American fascist one, which had been entirely alien to Iran (though this alien regime used a local dictator, the Shah, as its figurehead \u2014 who answered to Washington). In succession now, Mossadegh\u2019s two enemies \u2014 first the U.S. aristocracy, and now the Shiite clergy \u2014 have replaced an alien, U.S., dictatorship by a native one. But that native one (after 1979, the Shia clergy) has no international-jihadist ideology. Though Shia clerics hate the apartheid Israeli regime and fund Hezbollah to fight it, there is otherwise nothing that\u2019s even remotely comparable to jihadism, in the Shia branch of Islam. Jihad (global conquest) is strictly a Sunni phenomenon, and it centers around the Saudi government, which is owned by the Saud family, and whose laws are made by the Wahhabist (the Sauds\u2019 extremely fundamentalist Islamic) clergy, which is financed by the Sauds and by the subjects that the royal family own \u2014 the \u2018citizens\u2019 of Saudi Arabia. This is why 92% of the Saudi public think that ISIS is good. (By contrast, in the multicultural nation of Syria, which is allied with Iran and Russia and is ruled by a decidedly non-sectarian and secular government that\u2019s composed mainly of Shia, and which has been invaded by Wahhabist-Salafist foreign fighters who are financed by America\u2019s jihadist allies, 78% of the population disapprove of ISIS, and 82% blame the U.S. as being the chief power behind ISIS<\/span><\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n

The original sin that has shaped America\u2019s role in the Mideast (other than our siding with the apartheid nation of Israel and so being widely despised around the world by Muslims) occurred when America\u2019s aristocracy took over Iran in 1953, for their oil companies. But Americans hate Iranians as a result<\/i>\u00a0 <\/span>of that original sin, which was done by the Dulleses to Iranians on behalf of U.S. oil-company friends, which include the Sauds. The American people are getting the blowback from the American aristocracy\u2019s international crimes abroad.<\/span><\/p>\n

And, now, as Gallup is consistently finding, Americans hate the Iranians. That\u2019s because the Iranians have called America \u201cthe great Satan\u201d because that\u2019s what America (our aristocracy and its agents) had actually been\u00a0to them \u2014 to the Iranian people<\/i>. Iran\u2019s public are right, even though the clergy that rule over them are wrong \u2014 but Americans don\u2019t know that distinction, and so condemn the Iranian nation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Sauds, from whom the American public have suffered 9\/11 and lots else, are \u2018American allies\u2019 according to the duplicitous U.S. press. They are not allies actually of the American public, but\u00a0of the American aristocracy<\/i>, which the American press don\u2019t even expose to the public: this country, after all, is (not<\/span><\/a>) a \u2018democracy<\/span><\/a>.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

On February 22nd, Gallup headlined \u201cFour Nations Top U.S.’s Greatest Enemy List\u201d<\/span><\/a> and reported that they were: North Korea, Russia, Iran, and China. Those were the four nations whose names had been volunteered by respondents in answer to \u201cWhat one country anywhere in the world do you consider to be the United States\u2019 greatest enemy today? (open-ended).\u201d The complete list of nations identified by one or more of the 1,021 respondents included 25 nations. Saudi Arabia came near the bottom of that list. (On 22 April 2015, CNN issued a poll finding<\/span><\/a> that the same four nations came up as posing the biggest \u201cthreat\u201d to the U.S.; but also finding that ISIS was considered by Americans to be a far bigger threat than any nation.) <\/span><\/p>\n

And our government won\u2019t prosecute, nor attempt to prosecute, the people who actually fund terrorism \u2014 not even the terrorism that hits here, never mind in Europe etc. That refusal to prosecute the people who were behind the 9\/11 attacks is also what\u00a0the expurgated 28 pages<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in the U.S. Senate\u2019s 9\/11 report are all about. (And, since the American public don\u2019t know, there\u2019s no pressure from the public on that, either.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead, our lying politicians, who are empowered (in both Parties) by money from the same people, constantly call Iran the major backer of international terrorism, though they know that the allegation is rabidly false. Hillary Clinton says, \u201cWe have a lot of other business to get done with Iran. Yes, they have to stop being the main state sponsor of terrorism<\/span><\/a>.\u201d But, actually, she and the other agents of America\u2019s aristocracy are the ones who have to stop their constant lying, because plenty of American suckers believe their lies \u2014 and it ends up showing in the Gallup and other opinion-polls, and ultimately in the people that the thus-deluded American public vote for<\/i>\u00a0 <\/span>to serve in Congress and the Presidency. Americans are deluded by their aristocracy\u2019s constant lies.<\/span><\/p>\n

After all: it\u2019s not hard for any authentic news-reporter to prove that Hillary herself is aware that what she said there was false \u2014 that her remark was a lie, not merely a slip-up. When she was the U.S. Secretary of State, one of the first things she did (after assisting the fascist junta that had taken over in Honduras on 28 June 2009 to stay in power<\/span><\/a>) was to send a cable to the U.S. Ambassadors in all of the capitals where the donations to Al Qaeda, ISIS, and other terrorist groups, were coming from<\/span><\/a>, requiring those Ambassadors to the local aristocracy to tell them to stop doing that; these were the Ambassadors only in fundamentalist-Sunni-run countries: Saudi Arabia (the center of it all), Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, and Pakistan. It\u2019s because Sunni-run countries are where almost all of the jihadists and especially the funding for jihadism come from. In that private cable, she even said things like: \u201cDonors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide.\u201d \u201cQatar\u2019s overall level of CT [Counter Terrorist] cooperation with the U.S. is considered the worst in the region.\u201d \u201cKuwait \u2026 has been less inclined to take action against Kuwait-based financiers and facilitators plotting attacks outside of Kuwait. Al-Qa\u2019ida and other groups continue to exploit Kuwait both as a source of funds and as a key transit point.\u201d \u201cUAE-based donors have provided financial support to a variety of terrorist groups, including al-Qa\u2019ida, the Taliban, LeT and other terrorist groups, including Hamas.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Those are our \u2018allies\u2019? She knows that Al Qaeda and ISIS received no money from Shia. She knows that Al Qaeda and ISIS are Sunni-only groups, which hate all Shia<\/span><\/a> \u2014 they want to defeat Iran, they don\u2019t represent<\/i>\u00a0 <\/span>Iran. (But the American public seem to be unaware of that reality.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Garbage like what Hillary said there against Iran makes it into Presidential candidates\u2019 debates; and none of the \u2018press\u2019 says the person was either lying or else incredibly ignorant for saying such a thing. A statement like that poisons the well of U.S.-Iranian relations, even more than a half-century after it had already been poisoned big-time, back in 1953. Why is this poisoning so persistent?<\/span><\/p>\n

This lie that Hillary Clinton and so many other American politicians spout, is one of many lies that our \u2018news\u2019 media can\u2019t expose, because to do that would also expose themselves \u2014 that the media themselves have deceived the American public by not pointing out that the politicians are lying about these major, determinative, issues. In this regard, it\u2019s similar to the lie that Bush didn\u2019t lie but merely had been mistaken about \u201cSaddam\u2019s WMD\u201d<\/span><\/a>: how could the press now acknowledge that Bush had lied, when they refused to even examine his lies while they were being made, which is when it counts? And that\u2019s why politicians such as Clinton can get away with their lies against Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n

America is now piling up with lies, which the nation\u2019s \u2018news\u2019 media can\u2019t expose without exposing themselves as being part of the deception of the American public. (After they had stenographically reported George W. Bush\u2019s lies about \u2018Saddam\u2019s WMD,\u2019 they could never admit how rotten the U.S. press were<\/span><\/a> \u2014 and still are<\/span><\/a>. They have\u00a0 <\/span>to hide that, too.) This piling-on of lies is now becoming extremely dangerous, even to the very possibility<\/i>\u00a0 <\/span>of restoring democracy to America. Without an honest press, democracy is impossible. Without an honest press, democracy won\u2019t be able to be restored in America.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is nothing that the U.S. press is as<\/i>\u00a0 <\/span>dishonest about as Russia and its traditional allies, such as Ukraine<\/span><\/a>, Syria<\/span><\/a>, and Libya<\/span><\/a>. (And: Iran \u2014 because America since 1953 has joined with the jihadist Sunni royal families on that, and virtually forces Iran to ally with Russia for protection against us.) And this nest of subjects includes the entire topic of jihadism, which America\u2019s aristocracy secretly back (and use as a tactic against Russia and its allies) but which Russia\u2019s aristocracy and public both oppose, consistently \u2014 and not only by tokens such as killing Al Qaeda\u2019s leaders, but by getting done the entire ugly job that needs to be done<\/span><\/a> (which was described there with a remarkable lack of bias, in a recent issue of the New Yorker<\/i> magazine, by Joshua Yaffa, headlining \u201cPutin\u2019s Dragon\u201d). There is no way to defeat jihadism without destroying the jihadist culture, itself. Instead, the U.S. has been and is allied to it<\/i>. Not just in Saudi Arabia, but also in the other Arabic Sunni oil-kingdoms: Qatar, Kuwait, and UAE \u2014 and, more recently, also in the resurgently-Sunni NATO \u2018ally\u2019: Turkey. So: our \u2018press\u2019 must lie big-time, and with only very few exceptions of honesty, about these matters.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s what is merely being reflected in Gallup\u2019s latest, and prior, polls about the opinions that Americans have regarding Iran. This is a severe, worsening, and dangerous, sickness of the American \u2018press.\u2019 And nobody seems to have any solution for it. How can the people of a nation boycott its corrupt press? How can they even know that they should? How can they ever know that they are \u201cbeing had\u201d \u2014 that they are being governed by lies? That their government, politicians, and press, surround them with those lies?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org A February 17th Gallup Poll\u00a0showed that Americans prefer the chief nation that sponsors international terrorism, when given a choice between that terrorist-sponsoring nation and Iran. The disapproval shown of Iran is 79%; the approval is 14%. Back in 2014, the disapproval\/approval were 84%\/12%. At that time, Saudi Arabia had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":166303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[115,30,96,535,34,38,907,1023,804,981,754,92,49,76,40,1024],"class_list":{"0":"post-227094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-big-brother","10":"tag-cover-up","11":"tag-global-news","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-iraq","14":"tag-isis","15":"tag-nuclear","16":"tag-politics-2","17":"tag-saudi","18":"tag-syria","19":"tag-terrorism","20":"tag-usa-news","21":"tag-warfare","22":"tag-white-house","23":"tag-ww3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}