“ARE THEY TRYING TO DEVELOP A NUCLEAR
WEAPON? NO.”
This is not very professional to say but, the best way to win a war? Strip Hillary naked and stand her in front of the advancing army. I guarantee they would turn tail and run!
I am getting quite tired of this
constant harping for a war with Iran and America’s wish to get into it. So few
mention the facts that are pertinent. First it is ISRAEL who wants this war.
They know they cannot do it themselves so they want America to go in, as it did
in Iraq, and do its dirty work for them, further damaging the American
reputation. This costs Israel nothing and if they suffer some collateral damage they can scream "victim".
It seems to me that Israel wants this
done because of their millenniums of absolute hatred for the Persian people and
they would like to complete the work of Esther but there is more to it. Another
war would drain America and weaken it even more and leave it even more in debt
to the International banking cartel, most of whom are Jewish. This would serve
to enslave the once great nation even further as the Jewish parasites continue
to drain America of everything it possibly can ~ wealth, youth, moral
fortitude.
And of course, the Jewish owned
politicians of America continue to sell out their nation because that is just what
they do best. Dear lord, these political runners for the Republican nomination
are all outdoing each other to see who can kiss Israeli buttocks the most
debasingly. Except for Ron Paul who they are seriously trying to derail.
The thing is, at Israel's insistence, America is beating these
drums and the world, including most normal Americans, do not want wars. They
want their lives back!
But that ain’t gonna happen for awhile
folks.
By Finian Cunningham
January 9, 2012
America is now bankrupt: financially, economically,
politically ~ and morally. Its criminal aggression towards Iran is just one of
many parts of a jigsaw that add up to a clear and grotesque picture of what the
United States of America now represents in the 21st Century world.
The numbers and pictures for these
constituent parts of this odious jigsaw puzzle are well known. But what has
become glaringly clear is just how integrated the official image of the US now
is.
Bankrupt.
Terminally in debt, mass poverty at
record levels, rampant militarism, draconian curbs on civil liberties,
government by the rich for the rich, and lately the reactionary, debased
cat-fight that passes for political debate among
Republican contenders for the
Presidency.
Cringing is the sight of super
wealthy career politicians throwing sand in each other’s eyes to scrabble up
the pole for yet further personal accumulation of capital; disturbing is the
easy way that psychopathic targeting of imagined enemies whether at home or
abroad is worn like a badge of honour.
It is a sign of how depraved the
American political mind has become when would-be presidents can so openly talk
of conducting foreign policy in terms of unquestioned international aggression.
Of course, this kind of political and
moral bankruptcy is not just confined to those seeking office. It is the coin
of those who are already in office.
In a report in the New York Times
Monday we have the startling admissions that, taken together, show that the US
government should be certified as criminal (if further proof were needed) [1].
First we have the top US military man
confirming that long-averred war plans against Iran are indeed going ahead.
The NYT: “When asked on [CBS’s] Face
the Nation about the how difficult it would be to take out Iran’s nuclear
ability in a military strike, Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, said: ‘Well, I would rather not discuss the degree of
difficulty and in any way encourage them to read anything into that. But I will
say that my responsibility is to encourage the right degree of planning, to
understand the risks associated with any kind of military option, in some cases
to position assets, to provide those options in a timely fashion. And all those
activities are going on.’”
In other words, the US is preparing
for war.
Ironically, in the above lengthy
article about the imminent opening of Iran’s second uranium enrichment plant at
Qom, located under a mountain and impregnable from attack, the New York Times
buries General Dempsey’s admission deep within the folds of its paragraphs
perhaps in a bid to make it impregnable from attack by sane readers.
Granted, the bellicose of talk from
US Commander-in-Chief Barack Obama and his administration of all options on the
table has become so routine that the editors at the NYT have probably become
inured to criminal admissions and so don’t think them worth any higher
prominence that a final paragraph.
But here is the second part of the
equation that adds up to definite criminality.
In the same story, the New York Times
quotes US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta making what should be a startling
admission: that Iran does not have nuclear weapons.
Panetta
says:
“Are they
[Iran] trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No.”
That Panetta finally admits what many
people around the world know to be true, including American intelligence
agencies in at least two US National Intelligence Estimates in 2007 and 2010 ~
that is, that Iran is not attempting to develop a nuclear weapon, should be a
front-page headline.
Especially when taken together with
the US General Dempsey’s disclosure that war plans are afoot. From its own
admission, therefore, the US government is pushing the world into possibly a
World War III scenario on the basis of a totally spurious claim that even its
own top brass do not believe.
Reflecting the bankruptcy that has
corroded the US political establishment is the way that the New York Times ~
America’s self-styled premier newspaper ~ glides over these nuggets of
self-indictment as if they were worthless banalities.
So if Iran is not even trying to
develop a nuclear weapon, as Panetta now admits, what then is the criminal US
warmongering predicated on?
Unofficially, the real reason is
imperialist rivalry with other powers (Russian and China in particular) in the
energy-rich Persian Gulf and Central Asia regions, and the attempt to engineer
“regime change” in Iran to one that is pliant with Washington’s geopolitical
designs.
Officially, for what it is worth, it
seems now that the US is not happy even with the mere suspicion that Iran
maybe, just maybe, one day capable of developing nuclear capability.
This is where facts can be helpful.
As a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran has the legal
right to develop nuclear capability for civilian purposes. This is what Iran
has consistently said it is doing and what countless UN inspections of
facilities over many years, including the new plant at Qom, have verified.
The enrichment of uranium constitutes
“nuclear capability” and is an essential part of harnessing nuclear energy for
civilian energy. Iran should be congratulated for this achievement given years
of gratuitous sanctions by the US its Western allies.
But the way the US government and its
Western allies put it, Iran’s legitimate nuclear capability is made to sound
like a diabolical threat.
Panetta again: “But we know that
they’re trying to develop a nuclear capability. And that’s what concerns us.”
There you have it. The United States
can drop nuclear weapons on civilians, possess up to 10,000 nuclear warheads,
supply its allies illegally with such weapons and continue to violate the
purpose of the NPT by not disarming its nuclear arsenal ~ yet if a country uses
the provisions of the NPT legitimately to pursue nuclear capability then it is
reviled and made a target for an illegal war of aggression, most probably with
nuclear weapons.
This is depravity-turned-foreign
policy ~ emanating from supposedly the most democratic government in the world.
In that way, the unseemly Republican
Party cat-fight between Romney et al is but a symptom of the chronically
bankrupt body politic that is American government in the 21st Century.
Finian Cunningham is Global
Research’s Middle East and East Africa correspondent
Notes
the best way to win a war? Strip Hillary naked and stand her in front of the advancing army.
ReplyDeleteI puked a little in my mouth as I read that.
Terrifying thought, isn't it?
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