- Once again, America is threatening world peace in a myriad
of ways. First, the Bush team is going after Dr. Mohammad Al Baradi, the
respected head of the IAEA, trying to oust him as head of the UN Nuclear
Inspection Program. Everyone in the world respects Dr. Al Baradi, his integrity,
his forthright statements and his knowledge of the nuclear development
field; everyone, that is, except for the Bush team. Of course, the Bush
team disrespects anyone who questions them or disagrees with them. Dr.
Al Baradi is a man of integrity, and he will not give an inch to political
or financial pressure. This is something the Bush group dislikes, mightily.
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- This is the same strategy they used to bypass Dr. Hans
Blix when he worked for the UN as a weapons and WMD inspector. Blix said
they had worked very hard but found no WMDs in Iraq. Bush wanted a definitive
answer immediately, When Blix said they would need another month to wrap
up their search, Bush went to war, in order to obviate the truth that he
didn't want the world to know. As we know now, and many suspected before
Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq, that was not sanctioned by the UN, there
were no WMDs in Iraq until we invaded. There are now WMDs in Iraq, American
WMDs, which include some new Depleted Uranium weapons and some new microwave
killing devices that are most cruel and terrible in their killing ability.
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- Now, with Iran, though Dr. Al Baradi and the EU feel
progress is being made in showing that there is no bomb making nuclear
work in Iran, Bush wants to rid the UN of Al Baradi in order to put one
of his stooges into that seat, then to have a stooge who will justify one
his "pre-emptive attacks" on Iran.
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- While he is working at the UN to replace Al Baradi, at
the same time, his Mistress of State, Conde Rice, is "warning Iran"
to accede to American demands to quit its "nuclear bomb making".
Iran can't stop doing that, because Iran is not making bombs -this from
the IAEA and the EU inspectors! She is also trying to strong -arm European
leaders into joining the Bush intimidation game against Iran. Aside from
America, the only other countries in the world who believe this nonsense,
and are helping to perpetrate these lies are Britain (with Tony Blair,
the lapdog in Bush's hand) and Israel, which wants to dominate the Middle
East and wants Iran out of the way. The EU leadership has sent inspectors
along with Dr. Al Baradi and they have all come back with the same report,
"There is no work on nuclear weapons going on in Iran."
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- The French Foreign Minister, H. E. Michel Barnier, at
a joint news conference with Rice, said, in a clash with Rice's ideas of
pushing the UN into military action, that France and the other leaders
in the EU prefer to use the ongoing diplomacy and not the threat or the
act of military action to resolve any problems, In response to Rice and
Bush's threats,
- Iranian leaders, both among the conservative Ayatollahs
and the liberal leaning President Khatami, said they would unite for the
sake of Iran and its sovereignty, and would not tolerate an American or
Israeli attack on their country. This was echoed in street demonstrations
in parts of Iran (something not reported by the American major media).
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- This Bush/Rice scenario and the lack of verifiable evidence
has echoes of Iraq before the Bush invasion. He insisted there were WMDs
in Iraq, everyone else said, "No, the sanctions have worked, no one
has any proof." Then Bush sent in his liars to the UN and elsewhere,
with evidence they knew was made up of lies and exaggerations. Colin Powell
destroyed his integrity to support Bush, lied and pushed the world to war
with bogus statements of threats that didn't exist. Then, before the stories
could be checked out either by our Congress or the UN, Bush hurriedly went
to war before anyone could stop him. Of course, we are now reaping what
we have sown in Iraq.
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- All of us who know the Middle East know these things
to be true. What is interesting is that Mistress of State, Conde Rice thinks
that her smile and her show of friendship with Europe a few days ago, will
stand up now that she has started to "scold" European leaders
for not jumping on board the sinking Bush campaign in Iraq and in his newly
desired campaign against Iran. She hopes that no one will have time to
think about his failings in Iraq, Afghanistan or in saving the American
economy (while he tries to destroy, not change, Social Security and other
safety nets that Roosevelt and others helped set up for American citizens.
I bring this up, because it is the same slight of hand Orwell talked about,
"always create an external enemy so that you may take away rights
from within, to take more control of your nation.")
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- But chickenhawk, AWOL, GW Bush, is anxious to keep up
his rhetoric of being a "war president"; he feels he will be
able to get whatever he wants in "time of war." I think it is
time the Congress stood up before Bush goes any further. Of course, the
American Congress has shown itself to be cowardly and weak in the knees.
If the Congress doesn't stand up now, they will be complicit in this new
war that Bush wants to wage. Because of their stupidity the last time around
with the Iraq situation, they are already complicit and guity of war crimes
from that misadvernture.
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- Unfortunately, I don't look for the Democrats to do much
except squeal their assent with the Republocrat Joe Lieberman leading the
charge, being assisted with Israel firster Tom Lantos, supported by King,
Schumer and the rest of the pro-Israeli gang which supercedes being a Democrat
or Republican. Their battle cry, like that of Wolfowitz, Feith, Cheney,
Perle, Kristol and Rumsfeld is, "Israel first," and "down
the tubes with Iran."
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- Thus, Bush gets a triple out of the possible Iran attack.
It allows him to take people's minds off the ongoing defeats in Iraq, it
allows him to push through vast sums of money for the Pentagon and for
his friends in the military-industrial complex for "war", and
it allows him to destroy American safety nets like Social Security while
people are looking the other way at "war." I almost forgot, it
also helps his friend, Ariel Sharon, in Israel-a man that GW Bush followed
more than his own wise father. From what I have been told by Washington,
DC insiders, President George Bush the 1st, warned his son against invading
Iraq, has warned him against attacking Iran and has told him not to trust
Sharon. Unfortunately, because of GW's admiration of Sharon, and the false
religious doctrines that GW has learned from such ignorant evangelicals
like Falwell, Robertson and Graham Jr., GW Bush thinks that he has been
talking with God, and that he is doing the work of God on the earth. This
blasphemy is born of his ignorance of the Bible and his general lack of
critical intelligence and reason. Of course, having a deceiver like Cheney
as one of your chief advisors, and a second rate "intellectual,"
like Conde Rice as your other advisor doesn't help either.
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- Returning to Sharon, I cite Sharon and Israel because
Israel is in no real danger from any Arab or Muslim country because it
has over 250 nuclear bombs and is fourth only in the world behind the U.S.,
Russia and China in its nuclear arsenal. But Sharon keeps saying, "We
are only a little country and are afraid of these big Arab countries."
Bush, who knows little of reality, buys it like a baby taking in sugar.
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- So why the big fuss about Iran just working in nuclear
energy? Because Israel says it is afraid that Iran may become a nuclear
power. In addition, by taking over Iran, GW Bush and Israel can seat themselves
in the center of the Muslim world and control all the major supplies of
oil in the world. It's as simple as that. But, George Bush Sr. has knows
the vagaries of the Middle East, both Arabs and Zionists, and has tried
to educate his son, but to no avail.
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- Thus, whether Iran is really working on a nuclear bomb
or not, and most experts say they are not, just as they said the same thing
about Iraq-the GW Bush minions, along with Israel and Blair will continue
their lies until they foment an attack on Iran. Bush is hoping to bring
France and Germany along on this new war, but they are too shrewd to follow
this ignoramus and his new folly. They see his clout lessening, and they
have all measured Conde Rice, just as has Putin of Russia, and they know
she is not honest, not shrewd, and that she is more blow than show (no
pun intended, though you may use it if you wish).
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- In the meantime, China is making deals for Venezuelan
oil, Iran is cozying up to Russia and China, Syria is getting closer to
Russia, Iraqi oil is not getting to the US because of blown up pipelines.
We are getting less Venezuelan oil, our oil pipelines in Columbia are being
blown up every week, and our costs for oil have skyrocketed with the weakened
dollar. The world is watching the American economy go belly-up with the
huge deficits in the economy made worse by our billions wasted in Iraq,
by our falling dollar and by our astronomical trade imbalance. All major
investors in the world, including those in America, are sending their monies
into Euro denominated accounts, not dollar accounts or into U.S. Bonds
and securities. Thus, if GW Bush wants to undertake his new folly, he may
find there is no money to support it-and if he raises interest rates too
fast and too high, the rest of the American economy, based now on real
estate, could crumble and he could fall faster and be worse off than Humpty
Dumpty-and no one, no matter how smart, might be able to put the American
economy back together again in less than decades or longer.
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- In the meantime, the Chinese, certainly the world's next
world superpower, will laugh all the way as the American nation goes into
the sink. Our military has been shown to be vulnerable and inefficient,
our might has been measured by all major powers and have been found wanting
(Iraqi resistance fighters, without planes, helicopters and tanks have
stood off our best troops and weapons for years now-with little outside
support, this according to Janes of England and other military assessment
organizations, and from statements by outspoken American military experts).
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- With political appointees among our generals, like Tommy
Franks (whose only claim to fame and appointment was that he was from Texas
and went to school with Laura Bush), ignorant louts like General Mattis
that enjoys killing people, especially women and children as he did in
Fallujah, and Abizaid who has no idea what he is to do in Iraq-our military
has lost the respect of other military tacticians in the world. They see
our generals the way Lincoln saw his generals at the beginning of the Civil
War, as incompetent to lead a nation or men in battle. Most military experts
in the world realize our military leadership, as well as our governmental
leadership is full of weakening holes, rotten from the inside, like a swiss
cheese from corruption.
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- Not only that, but our forces are so spread out around
the world that the American mainland is now vulnerable to an outside attack
from a major power! The moral in our military is at an all time low, it
has not been this low since Viet Nam-this according to surveys taken at
our veterans hospitals, in Iraq and Afghanistan and from marines who are
returning to Camp Pendleton. Add to this that our treasury is depleted,
our costs for social, medical, educational and other matters are outrageous
and there is less and less of a safety net in America-our reservists and
national guard troops are exhausted and no one wants to volunteer any more-and
you have a total self-destructive and weakening mess in America.
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- One must also be aware that our Congress is most ineffectual,
being run by louts and liars like Tom DeLay, deceivers like Bill Frist
and weaklings like Kerry and Israeli firsters like Lieberman, Lantos and
Schumer. There are few in our Congress who are standing up for our citizenry.
It's is interesting that the most loyal to the citizenry are the women,
like Senators Boxer and Snow, a Democrat and a Republican and a senior
member, Robert Byrd-in the house, it is John Conyers, Tubbs, Waters and
a few others who have hoisted the flag of the citizenry. Forget the bogus
leadership of Dennis Hastert-a man my father would call an "old tub,"
"an old plug,"-"worthless", a man who should be "put
out to pasture."
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- Don't think the world leaders in China, Russia, France
and Germany have not seen these same things and have not measure our nation
and see it falling apart, sinking into the morass of ancient Egyptian style
bureaucracy-where nothing moves forward, but stays in place and rewards
itself unto its own death and destruction through corruption. They also
see us shouting about "democracy" and "honest elections,"
and laugh about the Bush election victories in 00 and 04. They see the
senile John Snow trying to convince the world of the nonsense that "outsourcing
jobs" is good for America and that a weaker dollar is good for the
American economy. It's true, it can be good for Boeing, GE, General Motors,
Ford, Monsanto, ADM and a few others-but for the nation and its citizens,
it is a disaster.
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- So, with all this downward spiral going on, it is natural
that Bush would want to divert our attention from his failures in all arenas
by a new attack, this time on Iran. Orwell all the way. I just hope he
is blocked at the UN and in our Congress, if not, he'll find that Iran
is much more formidable and united than was Iraq, and our casualties in
human life, in treasure and in our honor will be incalculable and totally
disasterous.
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- Sam Hamod, Ph.D., writes on world and domestic affairs
for various online sites, newspapers and appears on television to speak
against things that are harmful to America and its democracy. He is the
former editor of 3rd World News in Wash, DC; he edits,
- www.todaysalternativenews.com . Hamod may be reached
at shamod@cox.net
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- c. 2005 Sam Hamod
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