Here’s How the Government Will Sell Us the Iran War

Same story, different gulf

Timothy Kreider
GEN
Published in
9 min readJun 14, 2019

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TThe first time I heard anyone in the Bush administration mention Iraq, in 2002, I knew they were going to invade it. Lately, certain members of the Trump administration have been talking the same way about Iran, and just recently some fortuitous incidents have handed them a convenient casus belli. So this essay is for the benefit…

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Timothy Kreider
GEN
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Tim Kreider is the author of two essay collections, and a frequent contributor to Medium and The New York Times. He lives in NYC and the Chesapeake Bay area.