- LAS CRUCES, New Mexico
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- It's really sad when you have to read newspapers and
web sites in the Middle East to find out what is happening in the United
States. For instance, al-Jazeera http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=7919
was about the only site outside of Israel to report that General Yoav
Gallan, war criminal Ariel Sharon's "military advisor" (that
is, he tells Arik the Butcher the best way to kill Palestinians and other
Arabs), "has reportedly handed Bush documents and aerial photos of
Iranian nuclear installations during the Israeli prime minister's Monday
meeting with the U.S. President George W. Bush, Israeli public radio reported
on Tuesday."
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- In short, the Israelis have devised a few fake photos
to lay on Bush since Iran does not actually have "nuclear installations,"
as the International Atomic Energy Agency http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/01/iran.nuclear/
reported late last year. Israel wants the United States to bomb the daylights
out of Iran, a possibility that will grow more and more remote as time
passes, a fact that really freaks out Sharon and his Jabotinskyite partners
in international crime who want every Arab or Muslim nation in the Middle
East bombed or at least cowed by the same sort of shock and awe Bush used
against Iraq.
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- Gallan, who accompanied Sharon in his summit with Bush
at his Texas ranch, presented the photos together with information the
Israeli intelligence services gathered on the Islamic Republic's nuclear
programme, the Israeli radio added, without mentioning how the photos were
taken. It just said that the images showed that the Iranian nuclear programme
was at a "very advanced" stage.
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- It is amazing what you can do with computers these days
-- entire alternate universes can be ray traced into existence. No doubt
Iranian nuclear programs can be likewise devised with a relatively inexpensive
computer and a little bit of software. Scott McClellan, who usually does
Bush's talking for him, more or less admitted the above, although he did
not give any details and the slavish corporate media did not ask for any.
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- Israeli defense officials asked Sharon to raise the option
of military attack against Iran's nuclear facilities during talks with
President Bush. On the other hand, U.S. defense officials had so far refused
Israeli entreaties to discuss the military option against Iran as a last
resort if diplomatic pressure fail.
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- Here's a novel idea... if the flipping Israelis are so
hot to invade (or at minimum bomb) Iran, let them do it themselves. Of
course they will not do this since there are around 66 million Iranians
and about 6 million Israelis, including a couple hundred thousand rabid
settlers in the West Bank, Gaza, and the land Israel filched from Syria.
Better to get the stupid Americans to do it, although it appears the Pentagon
is not exactly chomping at the bit to invade Iran considering the mess
in Iraq. So here we have Sharon and his mass murder advisor presenting
Bush the Dumber with photos, obviously contrived since nobody can find
nukes in Iran except the Israelis and their Neocon buddies, who are, just
like the Likudites, demonstrated and practiced liars and deceivers, well
tutored in making up fake "intelligence," as the Neocon lie factory,
the Office of Special Plans, did in the lead up to mass murdering around
100,000 innocent Iraqis.
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- Israel has previously made clear it considers all options
legitimate for preventing Tehran from acquiring a nuclear bomb. Analysts
say that the Jewish state wouldn't resort to force unless being supported
by its chief ally the United States. Of course not -- the Iranians would
wipe them off the map. "We are not managing to get the Americans to
talk about what will happen if the diplomatic efforts fail and Iran resumes
enriching uranium, putting it on track to an atomic bomb."
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- Seriously, this is a no-brainer -- stop messing around
with folks and maybe they will live and let live. Of course, Israel and
the United States are unable to stop messing around with people, and such
behavior is apparently pathologically ingrained -- Iran remembers well
the CIA overthrowing its democratically elected government and installing
a brutal shah and his personal Gestapo, Savak -- and this sort of nasty
behavior is more than often not the reason small countries in the third
world have a hankering to go nuclear, to ward off the neocon and neolib
wolves, as the example of North Korea illustrates (notice how Bush and
the Neocons are not saber-rattling much in North Korea's general direction
as of late).
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- Naturally, according to the Likudites and their Neocon
buddies, Muslims and Arabs have a genetic predisposition to kill Jews and
if they are allowed to have even one measly Hiroshima-grade atom bomb they
will immediately nuke Tel Aviv.
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- It is a bullshit story, entirely racist and irrational,
the sort of nonsense the Zionists have pedaled for decades in an effort
to get their way, that is to say de-Palestinianize Palestine and demonstrate
their mercilessness to the Arabs and Iranians. Moreover, when history is
examined, the indisputable fact emerges that it is Israel, under the leadership
of a number of rabid Zionist serial offenders such as Sharon and Begin,
that is responsible for much of the trouble in the region, from starting
a couple major wars to killing scads of otherwise peace-loving people and
blaming it on the Arabs (viz., the Lavon affair and Mossad's planting of
a radio device in Libya, resulting in the U.S. bombing Libya, to name but
two of a number of murderously deceptive events engineered by rabid and
remarkably sociopathic Zionists). Hell, if I was Iranian with a neighbor
like Israel I'd want a couple nukes of my own too, especially considering
the Israelis have about 200 of them.
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- Although Israel has never publicly acknowledged that
it maintains a nuclear arsenal, foreign experts assert it has between 100
and 200 nuclear warheads.
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- Big time double standards -- but then most Israelis are
white people and white people wouldn't think about nuking other people...
that is unless they are non-white, for instance, Japanese civilians. Obviously,
Sharon visited Bush at his fake cowboy ranch in Texas for one reason and
one reason only -- to convince him to bomb the heck out of Iran, something
Bush now seems reluctant to do considering the intractable situation in
Iraq. Sharon is likely to have a tizzy and no doubt his options are slim
to none in regard to Iran, a nation admittedly run by a clique of medieval
mullahs not particularly liked by most Iranians.
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- Of course, the average Iranian distrusts Israel and the
United States even more and will support the mullahs if push comes to shove
and the United States invades or does a number on their country with cruise
missiles and other mass murder hardware, about the only industrial product
America still manufactures. Is it possible somebody, somewhere, possibly
a bit saner and not connected at the hip to the Neocons and their Israeli
taskmasters, is whispering in Bush's ear? If sanity -- or a modicum of
sanity -- is to rule, we will find out by June, supposedly when the Iranian
window closes, according to the Israelis. If Bush does not attack Iran
by June, the odds the U.S. will attack at all will probably end up about
as promising as a Saturday night spent at a blackjack table in Las Vegas.
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- Kurt Nimmo is a photographer and multimedia developer
in Las Cruces, New
- Mexico. Visit his excellent no holds barred blog at www.kurtnimmo.com/
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- Nimmo is a contributor to Cockburn and St. Clair's, The
Politics of Anti-Semitism:
- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1902593774/counterpun
- chmaga/002-3481891-5122463
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- A collection of his essays for CounterPunch, Another
Day in the Empire, is
- now available from Dandelion Books:
- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/189330275X/counterpun
- chmaga/002-3481891-5122463
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- He can be reached at: nimmo@zianet.com
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