System Update with Glenn Greenwald Fox Presents Condi Rice to Sell the Iran War: Same Scripts, Same Sociopathic Cast as Iraq
Mar 5, 2026
A critique of recycled war narratives and media complicity. A spotlight on Condoleezza Rice's role in promoting past and potential future conflicts. Analysis of repeated talking points, historical revisionism, and contradictions in how threats are portrayed. A rebuke of warmongering rhetoric that recycles the same justifications.
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War Promotion Repeats Iraq Era Script
- U.S. war promotion recycles identical scripts and actors from the Iraq war era.
- Glenn Greenwald highlights Fox bringing Condoleezza Rice to sell an Iran war using the exact rhetoric and personnel from 2002–2003.
Iraq Architects Presented As Credible Again
- Architects of the Iraq war who lied then are now presented as credible advocates for attacking Iran.
- Greenwald singles out Condoleezza Rice's Fox appearance repeating claims about degrading Iran's nuclear capabilities and calling decisions "bold."
History Gets Rewritten To Justify New Strikes
- Messaging shifts from absolute claims to softer language when convenient, rewriting history to justify new attacks.
- Greenwald contrasts past Trump claims of "totally and completely obliterated" with later framing as merely "set back."