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 Exaggeration of Iranian Threat Could Have Dire ConsequencesPosted on Apr 20, 2010It is a dismaying reflection that the facilitators of major violence thus far in the 21st century have been lies told by democratic governments. The lies are continuing to be told, about the supposed “existential” menace posed by Iran to Israel, America and (if you believe some European leaders) Western Europe. One can say there is nothing new about lies. I would argue that the influence of mendacious official propaganda in the Western democracies is probably greater today than in the last century. There was a certain utopian innocence in the first half of the last century. The secular utopian promises were truly believed. People were made happy by believing in the romantic futures they were told would follow the seizures of power by Bolsheviks or the Italian Fascists. In Germany, Hitler offered vengeance and vindication to his people, and a future of supremacy. Those were serious matters, but romantic notions, too, used to justify the fulfillment of criminal fantasies. At the end of the century, Slobodan Milosevic promised Serbs fulfillment of the dream of a greater Serbia ruling its lesser neighbors. One might have thought there had been a lesson in the brutal and senseless murder of millions in the world wars to deter such ambitions. But again the wars of Yugoslav succession were inspired by lies—deliberately perpetuated, reawakened lies about the past, fictions about the malevolent ambitions of intimately related fellow-peoples of the former Yugoslavia, to produce the murder of still more of them. One might also have thought, at the end of that century, that Mikhail (and Raisa) Gorbachev’s inspired visitation by reason and wisdom would provide a decisive lesson about ending the lies. Gorbachev’s first liberating proposal was glasnost —telling the truth. One might have believed that we would, in the 21st century, still be breathing the oxygen of glasnost. Advertisement Next was the fiction that Hussein’s government, during the period of U.N. sanctions before 2003, was able to secretly construct nuclear weapons, despite the efforts of Western intelligence to detect them or deter him, and the presence of U.N. inspectors. There were no such weapons. Another fiction was that if Saddam’s Iraq did somehow obtain weapons of mass destruction, he could and would use them to attack Israel or the United States, despite the massive retaliatory power possessed by both of those countries, and their evident willingness to use it to avenge any attack. When people insist that this danger from Iraq was not the product of Western propaganda but a reality, or at least a plausibility, it became necessary to ask, as one does in the strategic studies business: How? Give me the scenario. Tell me how this attack could come about. Without an answer, it was necessary to conclude that Iraq was attacked for reasons having nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction. According to the post-invasion testimony of Saddam’s associates, prior to the Gulf War he was interested in weapons of mass destruction—in order to deter an attack by Iran! He feared revenge for his own invasion of Iran in 1980, and the eight-year war that followed, in which Iraq did use poison gas, and also enjoyed support from the United States. The Iraqi dictator, following the Gulf War, decided that obtaining mass-destruction weapons was no longer feasible, but he deliberately cultivated an air of mystery about his intentions as a factor of deterrence of Iran. The American invasion of Iraq in 2003 was motivated by the neoconservative illusion that the Iraqi people would welcome invasion and become a force for democracy, and friends to Israel. Instead, the death of Saddam Hussein and destruction of his government, the wrecking of Iraqi urban society and the country’s infrastructure and industry, which will take years to reconstruct, ignited anarchic insurrection and sectarian conflict, delivering the country into the power and influence of a much larger and more important enemy of both the United States and Israel—Iran. Another lesson about lies, one might have thought. U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates reportedly sent a secret letter to President Barack Obama in January reviewing the military options available if diplomacy and the new American attempt to intensify international sanctions on Iran fail to produce the desired halt in Iran’s effort, if that is what it is, to build a nuclear deterrent. If Iran does pursue a nuclear capability, once again it is to deter attack. Precisely the same objection exists to theories of Iranian aggression as to those lies put forward in 2002-03 about Iraq posing a nuclear menace to the world. Once more, the threat is a polemical invention, intended to frighten American and Israeli (and European) voters and to prompt a preemptive attack on Iran. The reason Gates expressed his uncertainties to the president is that he, too, recognizes that the conflict with Iran is constructed from fictions—which, as with the lies about Iraq, may turn into another war, whose consequences are sure to be worse for all concerned than the fiasco and tragedy of America’s invasion of Iraq. Visit William Pfaff’s website at www.williampfaff.com. © 2010 Tribune Media Services, Inc.  TAGS:
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By Mihail, April 24, 2010 at 8:11 am Link to this comment
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Question from the gathering: Rabbi Rabinovich, what about the various religions after the Third World War?
Rabinovich: There will be no more religions. Not only would the existence of a priest class remain a constant danger to our rule, but belief in an after-life would give spiritual strength to irreconcilable elements in many countries, and enable them to resist us. We will, however, retain the rituals and customs of Judaism as the mark of our hereditary ruling caste, strengthening our racial laws so that no Jew will be allowed to marry outside our race, nor will any stranger be accepted by us. (Note: Protocol of Zion No. 17 para. 2, states: ‘Now that freedom of conscience has been declared everywhere (as a result of their efforts they have previously stated) only years divide us from the moment of the complete wrecking of that [Hated] Christian Religion. As to other religions, we shall have still less difficulty with them.’)
We may have to repeat the grim days of World War II, when we were forced to let the Hitlerite bandits sacrifice some of our people, in order that we may have adequate documentation and witnesses to legally justify our trial and execution of the leaders of America and Russia as war criminals, after we have dictated the peace. I am sure you will need little preparation for such a duty, for sacrifice has always been the watchword of our people, and the death of a few thousand lesser Jews in exchange for world leadership is indeed a small price to pay. To convince you of the certainty of that leadership, let me point out to you how we have turned all of the inventions of the White Man into weapons against him. His printing presses and Radios are the mouthpieces of our desires, and his heavy industry manufactures the instruments which he sends out to arm Asia and Africa against him.
Our interests in Washington are greatly extending the Point Four Program (viz. Colombo Plan) for developing industry in backward areas of the world, so that after the industrial plants and cities of Europe and America are destroyed by atomic warfare, the Whites can offer no resistance against the large masses of the dark races, who will maintain an unchallenged technological superiority. And so, with the vision of world victory before you, go back to your countries and intensify your good work, until that approaching day when Israeli will reveal herself in all her glorious destiny as the Light of the World.” (Note: Every statement made by Rabinovich is based on agenda contained in the “Protocols of Zion.”)
THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN(REV 2:9,3:9)IS YOUR ENEMY.
Report thisBy bogi666, April 24, 2010 at 2:27 am Link to this comment
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Dave, for all your puffed up bravdo about your misguided libertarianism it is the CORPORATE WELFARE KINGS which is addicted to the USG welfare. As for you, I’m sure youhave disassociated yourself from you local socialist fire department and don’t used the socialist roads, taking it upon yourself to clean the streets and perform maintenance. Your feeble minded mindlessness just doesn’t make sense. The air is free of socialist entanglements and I’m sure your cap with its helicopter blades just gets you wherever you want to go and that if you crashed you would refuse EMT and its socialist services.
Report thisBy Wendell, April 23, 2010 at 6:01 pm Link to this comment
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By most accounts Israel has 400 nuclear bombs or one nuclear bomb for each 100,000 Israeli Jews.
To achieve parity Itan needs 6,800 nuclear bombs and the rest of the world needs 650,000 nuclear bombs
There is also the matter of parity in missiles, fighter jets, submarines, white phosphorous bombs, etc, etc.
Report thisBy Rehmat, April 23, 2010 at 5:41 pm Link to this comment
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Obama administration knows for fact that Iran under Islamic regime poses no threat to US security even if Tehran acquire a couple of hundreds of crude nuclear bombs nor the rest of G5+1 stupid enough to fear Iran. It’s the Zionist-regime which is exploiting this issue to keep Washington developing a friendly relations with Tehran.
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/the-pot-calling-the-tea-cozy-black/
Report thisBy Shingo, April 22, 2010 at 9:39 pm Link to this comment
“They’ve been spinning their centrifuges all year and nobody has done anything about it.”
That’s because under teh NPT, they’re allowed to.
“My guess is that neither the US nor Israel will attempt to take out their facilities in the year ahead.”
That’s becasue they can’t. Tehy don’t have weapons or bunker busters that can penetrate 70 feet of granite and concrete.
“If Iran used a nuclear device against Israel, or anybody else, they would be asking to become, in turn, the world’s largest ashtray.”
Exactly.
Report thisBy prosefights, April 22, 2010 at 7:13 pm Link to this comment
Iran may have gotten the message?
“[S]o far I have only described what is already obviously going on. Add to this the likelihood that Iran is closer to achieving membership in the atomic weapon club. They’ve been spinning their centrifuges all year and nobody has done anything about it. My guess is that neither the US nor Israel will attempt to take out their facilities in the year ahead. If Iran used a nuclear device against Israel, or anybody else, they would be asking to become, in turn, the world’s largest ashtray. ...
James Howard Kunstler
We all have an electricity problem.
Report thisBy Billy Obvious, April 22, 2010 at 6:16 pm Link to this comment
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One vote for each adult? Then “israel” is not a democracy. And Gaza is. And
Lebanon is.
The same goes for threats. The US has uttered many threats and so has the
Report thisapartheid regime. Iran has not. It’s very easy to exaggerate the Iranian threat: they have started no wars and threatened nobody, unless attacked.
By Shingo, April 22, 2010 at 5:38 pm Link to this comment
“Here’s hoping that Tehran becomes a parking lot in the next year or so.”
Here’s hoping that you remember to take your medication and stop violating little children.
Report thisBy Sparrows345, April 22, 2010 at 3:28 pm Link to this comment
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Here’s hoping that Tehran becomes a parking lot in the next year or so.
Report thisBy bogi666, April 22, 2010 at 10:14 am Link to this comment
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The Pentagon has assured Americans that their defense shield, which can be fooled with tin foil[the hat they wear], can stop the nonexistent Iranian non existent nuclear eqipped missles. Wow THE PENTAGON CAN DETER NON EXISTENT IRANIAN WEAPONS. I guess I’m worried about the non existent uncessarily? Well it’s a relief to know that the MIC complex is spending for the non existent threats which brings to mind why is the spending so urgent? Graft, corruption perhaps.
Report thisBy Dave, April 22, 2010 at 9:24 am Link to this comment
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I too am a Libertarian,but I’m aware of the fact that we are outnumbered 100 to 1 by those that are both hooked on the narcotic of government welfare and too ignorant to see the destructiveness that its dependency brings.
I have resigned myself to the reality that we are on auto pilot heading straight to the ground at 500 knots while the crew argues about which type of drinks to serve the passengers.
Report thisThere will be no savior,there will be no awakening,this can only end in war,hyperinflation and dimished liberties(or much worse).
Keep your guns!
have a great day!
By prosefights, April 21, 2010 at 8:02 pm Link to this comment
Where do jouralists come from? They are manufactured in Amercan Universities in a liberal arts cirriculum.
Mark E Mathis
US: Iran strike ‘still an option’
US officials say they are confident they could defend against an Iranian missile strike [AFP]
US military action against Iran is still an option as a measure to halt the country’s nuclear programme, the Pentagon has said.
“We are not taking any options off the table as we pursue the pressure and engagement tracks,” Geoff Morrell, the US defence department’s press secretary told reporters on Wednesday.
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Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.
Mark Twain
Report thisBy Paul_GA, April 21, 2010 at 1:22 pm Link to this comment
If you believe THE STATE, Prosefights. Anything that comes from Mordor-on-the-Potomac, take it with a grain of salt; the mainstream media is just their mouthpiece.
Report thisBy prosefights, April 21, 2010 at 12:50 pm Link to this comment
Wednesday April 21, 2010
US official: Iran military strike ‘off the table’
By ALEX KENNEDY (AP) – 7 hours ago
SINGAPORE — The U.S. has ruled out a military strike against Iran’s nuclear program any time soon, hoping instead negotiations and United Nations sanctions will prevent the Middle East nation from developing nuclear weapons, a top U.S. defense department official said Wednesday.
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If you believe msm.
Report thisBy Paul_GA, April 21, 2010 at 11:58 am Link to this comment
Raimondo is a libertarian, Balkas, and like myself, believes the solution to this country’s problems is a new birth of real freedom—not the sham freedom handed down from on high such as the US government pretends to give its citizens, but freedom from the grassroots up.
I suppose you and I can agree to disagree on some things, but that the scourge of perpetual war must be brought to an end—hopefully we’re in agreement there. I can worry about what a post-militarist USA might be like after the whole bloody, poisonous system of perpetual war is dismantled.
Report thisBy felicity, April 21, 2010 at 11:41 am Link to this comment
Any nation, or her people, designated by the US to be in need of an invasion of American ‘freedom-fighters’ to ‘rescue’ her from (something/someone) should begin to prepare for years of hell-on-earth.
As George Carlin wondered, we have fire-fighters and we have crime-fighters and now we have freedom-fighters?
Report thisBy balkas, April 21, 2010 at 10:31 am Link to this comment
Paul_GA,
sorry, but justin does not posit even one known cause fro all of the ills that befall us. Nor does he postulate a cause or causes for our troubles.
So, may i do it? The initial cause for all ills that happen to us on interpersonal or int’l levels, was division of people into more-valued and less-valued.
From just this iniquity;still extant in much of the world all ills befel us: warfare, slavery, serfdom, poverty, rebellions against ‘our’ rulers, lying by clero-politico-educational ‘elite’, joblessness, etc.
Illusion of grandeur, lying, and thus lust for power are known causes for our maladies.
All these causes were caused by the initial iniquity of dividing people; which caused further divisions into socialists, asocialists, methodists, catholics, muslims, clergy, laics, pols, etc.
And being so divided or running in all directions, just a dozen very evil people [with lotsof money, tho], but strongly united, can rule mns.
Report thisIn US, the ruling class might comprise anywhere bwtn 0001-1% of the pop. Whatever the numbers and whoever these people are, a good 98% of americans are rendered semanticly blind or unsane; they are not evil; just evaluate an enormous number of lies as true.
It cld have happened to me. It din’t because i had wise/honest teachers. tnx
By lisa, April 21, 2010 at 10:20 am Link to this comment
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All true, so far as it goes. But the unsaid, the obvious implied grand strategy of Empire, is to control oil and gas - including Iranian gas, of which there’s a vast amount. Thus it’s obvious that Iran must fall. Let’s assume that they’re not stupid. They must know that attack is sure, by subornation of treason or by violence, or by both, Iran will be attacked,is being attacked. What’s left for them is to use this reality in much the same way that the Greeks used a similar reality against Persia at Salamis. The Iranian strategy, deep strategy, is to control and use the Imperial aggression to bootstrap Iran into becoming a regional atomic power. Read Heroditus…
Report thisBy Paul_GA, April 21, 2010 at 9:01 am Link to this comment
Why do the Elites lie us into wars this country can ill afford to fight, and don’t really need to fight, Balkas? I think Justin Raimondo answers that question in his column du jour; “It’s all about domestic politics”:
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/04/20/the-making-of-american-foreign-policy
Report thisBy balkas, April 21, 2010 at 6:55 am Link to this comment
True, ‘our’ warlords, soul lords, and feudal lords have been lying to us for at least 10kyrs.
Report thisBut pfaff omits to tell us the causes for lying.
Yes, folks lies are caused!
But no msm collumnist dare reveal them. Yes, lies are as powerful as the truth. That’s why priests, pols, ‘educators’ use them. But why?
So let us discuss why these people lie! tnx
By Paul_GA, April 21, 2010 at 4:17 am Link to this comment
I’ve said it before, and I’ll keep saying it—this country will RUE THE DAY it ever entered into an entangling alliance with Israel.
Report thisBy Shingo, April 21, 2010 at 3:20 am Link to this comment
rfidler,
Israe is an apartheid and criminal state. It stands in violation of nearly 100 UN Resolutions, has vilated he 4th Genva Convention with it’s settlement expasion and has violated the ruling of the ICJ on the illegal wall, not to mention carried out attrocities on civilians.
It’s no longer a democracy but an apartheid, militaristic state. By it’s repeated attacks on Gaza aftr Hamas were elected, it demonsatrted what it think about democracy.
“And, “the neocons always intended to attack Iran” Really! Show me some “neocon” documents supporting that moronic claim.”
Evindently you never heard of the names Michael Lebdeen and Norman Podhoretz.
Report thisBy Shingo, April 21, 2010 at 3:16 am Link to this comment
The reality is that fewer and fewer people are buying the Israeli BS and they know it. Just today, Barak warned Bibbi that the world is losing patience with Israel. A few months ago, Tzipi Livni warned that Israel had become a pariah state. New polls show that Israel’s standing in the world is diving and lurks in the same standing as North Korea.
Now that Mullen has dissed the idea of attacking Iran, the wingnuts are in an utter panick. They’re trying deperately to get the Iran hype back onto the front pages.
It’s the beginning of the end for them and they know it.
Report thisBy diamond, April 21, 2010 at 12:01 am Link to this comment
Rfidler, I would be perfectly happy to assume they have none, but this is the Israelis we’re talking about and they do have nuclear weapons, we know they do. Israel is a nuclear armed state and has been for a long time so what are you trying to say? That at Dimona they have beehives full of honey bees buzzing around? What absolute nonsense. You also still aren’t addressing the main point, which is that Israel is nuclear, has not signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and while Iran has not attacked anyone, Israel has attacked a number of someone’s including its 2006 invasion of Lebanon where the IDF used phosphorous bombs on civilian apartment buildings and bombed and shot car conveys of fleeing civilians to pieces: they also bombed hospitals and a United Nations building. They lost this so-called war but still managed to spread millions of cluster bomb submunitions all over Southern Lebanon in the last three days before they withdrew. An act of sheer bastardry, that had no military purpose except to blow up Lebanese civilians and Lebanese children.
Then in Gaza they carried out an attack of absolute barbarity on unarmed civilians and shot down entire families including grandmothers and their grandchildren and burned babies to death with phosphorous bombs. So horrific was this attack that a Jewish judge,Justice Goldstone,who headed an inquiry into what happened in Gaza found Israel had committed war crimes in Gaza. And yet, in spite of all this, you want me to believe that IRAN is a threat to the Middle East? Sorry, I don’t, because I have a built in bullshit detector.
Report thisBy rico, suave, April 20, 2010 at 7:57 pm Link to this comment
diamond:
“There is an Israeli nuclear facility at Dimona and NO ONE INCLUDING ME KNOWS WHAT NUMBER OR TYPE OF NUKES THE ISRAELI’S HAVE: that’s the point.”
Ok. Let’s assume they have none. It’s just as reasonable a guess as one, or five, don’t you agree? Unless you have a political or philosophical need for the answer to be “other than none.”
Report thisBy samosamo, April 20, 2010 at 7:46 pm Link to this comment
By omygodnotagain, April 20 at 10:16 pm
You’re correct about izraelis’ sordid tactics of a down right
horrific strategy, but hey, ever since jews came into being as a
‘religious’ group that is all they have ever been, SORDID, and to
the point of attacking and killing each of the separate tribes that
were spread out over the middle east.
Discounting the jews who are true, righteous and noble the rest
Report thisof the lot of them are the lowest of the criminal mind and they
put the notion that criminals as these ‘specials’ are proof that
intelligence in not bounded by doing good all the time, in fact it
should be taken as intelligence of humans is founded also in the
deviously criminal thinking that groups such as the old secret
sects that had no problems in fucking over their own at any
time.
By omygodnotagain, April 20, 2010 at 6:16 pm Link to this comment
rfidler
Report thisIsrael is not a democracy it is a criminal enterprise, founded by thugs and terrorists and now run by Russian mobsters. Its Prime Minister, its Police chief are both indicted for crimes, the UN has accepted the Goldstone reports of Crimes Against Humanity. Israel is the center of the world’s illegal organ smuggling, a center for sex traffic. The Oligarchs of Russia after their crime spree call Israel home. Israel has through its moles in the US government stolen secrets with help of the likes of Douglas Feith, the man General Franks called “the stupidest f—king man in Washington”. They are continually staling industrial secrets, then bray to the world about their genius. We are in a financial crisis because of the likes of, Robert Rubin, Alan Greenspan, Larry Summers all contenders for the title of “the stupidest f—king economists in Washington”.
By diamond, April 20, 2010 at 6:10 pm Link to this comment
As usual, Rfidler, you’ve missed the point. There is an Israeli nuclear facility at Dimona and NO ONE INCLUDING ME KNOWS WHAT NUMBER OR TYPE OF NUKES THE ISRAELI’S HAVE: that’s the point. What I do know is that Israel pulled out of Obama’s nuclear disarmament conference because word leaked out that Egypt and other Arab countries were going to raise the question of Dimona. I know as much about depleted uranium as you do, not much in other words, except that the US used it all over Iraq and especially in Fallujah where a lot of horribly deformed babies have been born as a consequence. I hope I don’t need to tell you about Hiroshima and Nagasaki and what that did to Japanese civilians and their unfortunate offspring.
Israel is not a democracy under any definition of democracy I’m aware of. It’s a military/intelligence/theocracy or to be more exact it’s a polyarchy- a state that is run and ruled by an elite. An elite of unscrupulous, nuclear armed fanatics who only allow the voters to vote for other fanatics and assassinate anyone, like Yitzak Rabin, who actually tries to make peace. “Israel’s air force is already larger and technologically more advanced than that of any NATO power, (the US excepted)according to IDF analysts. Washington is now providing the IDF air force with more than a hundred advanced jet bombers, F-16’s- for which there is no credible defense need” according to Noah Chomsky who is, I suppose, according to you, a self-hating Jew for telling the truth about Israel. He also writes, that “The Israeli press adds further that the US is providing the IDF air force with “special weaponry” (“himush myuhad”...there can be little doubt that Iranian and other intelligence services are watching closely and probably giving a worst case analysis: that these might be nuclear weapons”.
The fact is, if you apply the standard to America and Israel that they want to apply to Iran, a country that has attacked no one and has signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which neither the US or Israel has signed, then the UN inspectors should be sent to both countries immediately and sanctions on both countries should be put in place post haste.
Report thisBy samosamo, April 20, 2010 at 5:57 pm Link to this comment
Let me see, al qaida makes up over 90% of the Iranian
population, so right there is enough reasoning to attack, attack,
attack and with nukes as we sure don’t want to leave any stone
unturned that is hiding those nukes and those pesky ‘terrorists’.
And sanctions would not be enough, there needs to be a full
military blockade surrounding the whole country at 1/4 mile
intervals to keep all those strategic bombers from flying over
here and dropping nukes and by gosh and damnit, the u.s. navy
really has their work cut out for them by tracking the Iranian
nuclear submarines that most likely are speeding their way over
here under water at this very moment to launch all those under
water ballistic missiles.
And stop any nuclear warhead reduction plans, we’ll need them
to hopefully stop and eradicate these godless unnatural vermin
who, to borrow a phrase from somewhere, ’ are life unworthy of
life’.
Hope that covers it because I am scared shitless and I don’t have
anymore toilet paper, just some odd 3 leaf clustered covered
vine to wipe my empty ass with, sure hope it isn’t poison ivy, so
hurry o, we just can’t wait any longer, show your outstanding
and renowned mettle at solving problems to everyone’s
complete satisfaction.
I wonder where or if the Bilderberg group meet in their usual
Report thismonth of June.
By Dave Thomas, April 20, 2010 at 4:56 pm Link to this comment
Exaggeration of the North Korean threat could have dire consequences.
Ooops. North Korea does have nukes. Sorry Japan and S. Korea.
Report thisBy Jason, April 20, 2010 at 4:23 pm Link to this comment
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I have heard much talk that if any nation is going to drop bombs on Iran, it would be Israel. I bet many USA citizens believe that it is ok if a nation drops bombs on Iran, so long as it will not be the USA.
You see, the USA society in general is more or less war weary - even those who were believed the propaganda about Saddam Hussein and thought the invasion of Iraq was justified. What I believe some in the international community does not understand is that IF Israel drops bombs on Iran, regardless of justification, Israel will be hated the world over moreso than it already is. Also, more than likely, dropping bombs on Iran would be the beginning of WW3; ironically, Israel would be blamed for that moreso than Iran you see.
Some people believe that Iran is justified in having nuclear power - especially being surounded by five nuclear armed nations. Plus it is legal for them to create and use nuclear energy for civilian purposes per the NNPT. By the way, how many nuclear armed nations surround the USA? Iran even says time and time again that they are not building nuclear weapons. Even if Iran does make a nuclear weapon, or buys one, it is not as if Iran will use it anyhow. I do not think Iran is that stupid. If it turns that Iran was making a nuclear weapon all along, it would be for deterrence purposes. I mean… Iraq and Afghanistan flanks Iran on each side and both are being invaded/occupied by the USA. It is not understandable why Iran would be concerned about this scenario?
Anothr reason why the USA is so reluctant to drop bombs on Iran and/or invade/occupy Iran is because the USA is unable to financially afford to. It would upset important nations. Gas prices in the USA would go sky high. Plus, the USA nuked another nation in the past. These are reasons why I believe that if any nation is willing to drop bombs on Iran, it would be Israel. I hope this does not happen, for everyone’s sake.
Report thisBy rico, suave, April 20, 2010 at 4:19 pm Link to this comment
I love the headline. It is the PERFECT example of “bury your head in the sand.” Ooooh, maybe if we just don’t make such a fuss, it will all go away!! Pfaff is a pussy.
diamond:
“not one person in the outside world knows what goes on there (Dimona) or what they actually have.” BUT YOU DO??? Why, then, say that? And do you even know what depleted uranium is?
And, “Israel, which is a theocracy and a military/fascist state and not a democracy…” Are you insane! It’s the only democracy within five hundred miles.
And, “the neocons always intended to attack Iran” Really! Show me some “neocon” documents supporting that moronic claim.
Report thisBy diamond, April 20, 2010 at 4:00 pm Link to this comment
America is the only country in the world that has actually dropped nuclear bombs on another country and has used depleted uranium weapons all over Iraq and Afghanistan. America has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and Iran has. Israel has nuclear weapons at Dimona, its secret nuclear site and not one person in the outside world knows what goes on there or what they actually have. Add to that the fact that Iran hasn’t attacked anyone in around 200 years and you can see what a lie this whole Iran hysteria is: it’s exactly the same as the madness that went on before the invasion of Iraq. The difference is that Iran is five times as big as Iraq and has the power to send the oil price into the stratosphere, destroying the entire economic recovery that we hope is taking root. Israel has probably told America that if they don’t bomb Iran, Israel will, and that is the dilemma Obama faces but the whole idea that Iran intends to attack Israel is a lie on a par with the “smoking gun in the shape of a mushroom cloud” and Iraq’s ability to launch a nuclear attack, with no nuclear weapons (really clever), in fifteen minutes.
It also has to be remembered that the neo cons always intended to attack Iran, it was on the list of Middle East countries that should be attacked to effect regime change to unleash a tsunami of democracy that would change all Middle East countries - except Israel, which is a theocracy and a military/fascist state and not a democracy and would continue to be so.
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