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Iran Blasts France for Beating War DrumsPosted on Sep 17, 2007Not surprisingly, Iranian officials are none too pleased with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner after he warned on Sunday that Iran’s developing nuclear program constitutes cause for alarm—and potentially for war.
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By cann4ing, September 18, 2007 at 11:45 am Link to this comment
Ah, voice of truth, you seem to be another of those amnesiactic Americans who have forgotten all the past propaganda used in the run-up to the war in Iraq—false links between Saddam and al Qaeda & 9/11, a bogus claim about Saddam trying to acquire “yellow cake” uranium from Niger, coupled with a dire warning that Saddam could give the nuclear weapons he did not have to “terrorists” and that “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud”?
Does it bother you that Mohammed el-Baradai has admonished the democrats in Congress and the administration for falsely claiming that Iran’s enrichment program has produced weapons grade uranium when in fact, the level of enrichment in Iran has been merely sufficient for use in nuclear power plants? Is your memory so short, that you do not see past the hype as the Bush regime again beats the drums for another war?
There are indeed a group of religious fanatics threatening to use nuclear weapons. They are located inside the White House. Iran is no more a threat to the U.S. today than it was 15 years ago. All this hype is about regime change. It’s about oil. It’s about the neoconservative plan produced by the Project for a New American Century—a plan still in place-to extend U.S. hegemony over the whole of the oil rich Middle East. Iraq was intended to be but a first step in this collective exercise in imperial insanity.
Report thisBy voice of truth, September 18, 2007 at 9:30 am Link to this comment
Am I the only one nervous about an unstable, theocratic regime that states publicly and repeatedly that they want to kill us having nuclear weapons??
I hope not.
Report thisBy Verne Arnold, September 18, 2007 at 3:04 am Link to this comment
Ah, one by one the coalition is starting to line up for Armageddon. Bushs visions will self-fulfill and Revelations will be realized.
Report thisChina, Russia, al-Qaeda and god knows who else will have become inexorably interconnected with all of this and, little by little, drawn into the abyss created by our neo-cons.
There are things going on here that far exceed our ability to understand. Without information one cannot understand; and, that information must be accurate .and its available to any one who cares to look. But you dont really care do you?
Over and over I hear; we cant stop this. If we truly believe we cant, then we are doomed to a fate worse than death. Like the frog slowly boiled, we will succumb to the growing fascism that we do not even see.
The recent demonstrations in Washington are a paltry attempt and pale in comparison to 40 years ago. Our experiment in democracy has failed, as it must.
The drumbeat to war with Iran will be our undoing. Only you can stop it but, you will, I fear, not do anything. But then most civilizations fall to rot, not passion.
By Howard, September 17, 2007 at 5:29 pm Link to this comment
Good thing, too; that Israel is so potent with all these governments.
Report this4 cheers for Israel !
By QuyTran, September 17, 2007 at 5:16 pm Link to this comment
Israelis government pays a lot for this “barking dog”
Report thisBy cann4ing, September 17, 2007 at 2:01 pm Link to this comment
Well, groovesmoothly, they’d probably give you the option to serve in Iraq/Iran as an alternative to debtors prison.
Report thisBy Groovesmoothly, September 17, 2007 at 1:32 pm Link to this comment
The most frightening thing about this potential confrontation with Iran is that Bush WILL declare marshal law if it happens and most of us will be rounded up and sent to debtors prison when we can’t pay off the housing bubble.
Report thisBy cann4ing, September 17, 2007 at 1:31 pm Link to this comment
This is happening because the French elected a neocon rather than a Socialist. Where France led the resistance to the war in Iraq, it is now leading the charge for another disasterous resource war.
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