A Matter Of Perspective

We all know that the WaPo lies sometimes, but other times it's just a case of bending the truth. Consider this article stirring up anti-Iran sentiment:

The Iranian Government has intensified its efforts to illegally obtain weapons technology from the US, contracting with dealers across the country for spare parts to maintain its ageing US-made air force planes, its missile forces and its alleged nuclear weapons program, a senior US customs official has alleged.

Over the past two years, arms dealers have exported or tried to export to Iran experimental aircraft, assembly kits for F-14 Tomcat fighter jets, components used in missile systems and fighter-jet engines, and machines to measure the strength of steel - critical in the development of nuclear weapons.

Now take the story and give it a little journalistic twist...

US Arms Dealers Supplying Iran With Weapons

A senior US customs official claims private arms dealers across the country are illegally supplying spare parts to the Iranian Government. US dealers are supplying Iran with experimental aircraft, assembly kits for F-14 Tomcat fighter jets, components used in missile systems and fighter-jet engines, and machines to measure the strength of steel - critical in the development of nuclear weapons.

Suddenly it becomes a story about how the US military industrial complex needs to be regulated or shut down, rather than a story about how the Iranian regime needs to be bombed into oblivion.