- Almost every other nation on the planet is made up of
its own people; the United States, by contrast, is a conglomerate. This
place is composed of people from all over the world. The one thing that
was designed to hold us all together was a Constitution that attempted
to lend meaning and purpose to an otherwise mongrel nation among the community
of nations. Our beginnings held promise, but we failed to participate,
and in so doing we lost our collective memory about who we were and consequently
who we are- which pretty much destroyed any 'future' that we might think
we had envisioned, as a nation or as a Republic.
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- Nations without a past are diminished when they try to
live in the moment-without a collective past: Israel is just beginning
to learn the truth of that statement. No nation can exist for long, when
it forgets what it has been or what it has done to get where there are
today. The US has willfully tried to obscure those things we did as a
Colonial power, and later as an Empire-in- Waiting. And the visit to New
York by Iran's Ahmadinejad, points up what happens when the people of
this nation know virtually nothing about their own past-much less the
history of those "other" nations that we have crushed so causally.
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- In 1953 with British and American help the Iranian Prime
Minister Dr. Mohammad Mossadeq was overthrown and the Shah of Iran was
installed as the new Western puppet in Iran. A great deal of 'change'
was introduced under the Shah, and the people of Iran grew angry. Out
of that anger the US Embassy was illegally attacked and 52 American Diplomats
were held hostage for 444 days-until George HW Bush was able to broker
the deal that would free the hostages, buy only upon the election of his
running mate Ronald Reagan.
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- Afterward there was the Armsfor-Hostages nightmare,
also illegal, but this time it was the radical right wing of the American
government that was breaking the law so this was not pursued. In
1957 the Shah installed his very-secret police, the Savak. The Iranian
people, under the Shah began to become acquainted with the shadow of terror,
as an extension of American policies. The thugs were Iranians, but their
masters were American. These chapters in the history of Iran left bloody
footprints upon that state, and it was in direct reaction to those Western
intelligence agency ties to Iran's Shah that the people of that country
rebelled. From that day to this the US has not maintained diplomatic ties
with Iran- remembering as we do only the 444 days that the hostages were
held, and forgetting the decades that we held their country as a hostage
state in service to the West. (1)
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- Had the United States even the ghost of a diplomatic
corp. then Iran could have begun talks with the State Department: however
we have no such function under current Cheney-Bush directives. Condi
is a joke that the entire Middle East uses and abuses at will especially
Israel. If she had any pride whatever she would have resigned long ago.
But that won't happen, because she still has her uses, even as a complete
failure.
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- However, when it comes to Iran, this impasse only enflamed
the problem. Iran wanted talks on many things, but the US is afraid to
hold diplomatic discussions because we're afraid we'd lose something
in the negotiations. In the void thus created, Iran chose to send Ahmadinejad
to New York specifically to invite a dialogue.
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- A lot of Americans behaved exactly as Cheney-Bush expected
that they would: and too many behaved like barbaric fools with no real
awareness of the history of the countries involved-all they focused on
were just the bumper-stickers and the one-liners, nothing more! One might
think that the possibility of yet another "pre-emptive attack"
upon yet another nation that has done nothing to America might be
well worth talking about, but that is apparently not the case. A more
thorough accounting is here: (2)
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- A friend put this "visit" very succinctly when
she said in part:
- "starting with Scott Pelle on 60 minutes! ~ He was
tacky, stupid and idiotic - how can anybody take all the accusations this
Bush/ Cheney mafia once again levels against another country serious?
They did the same thing with Iraq - and it was all lies, PROVEN LIES!
What is wrong with Americans that they swallow it whole once again? They
are brain-dead, brutish primitive idiots. Ahmadinejad and Iran have not
attacked another country in 200 years, while America has attacked other
countries over 200 times in the same time period. Are they completely
insane? The IAEA has put their reputation on line and averred that THERE
ARE NO SIGNS OF NUKES being built in Iran.......this while Americans are
killing hundreds of Iraqis daily - Iran's neighbor, and at the same time
spewing propaganda about Iran's government arming the freedom-fighters
in Iraq (if) they (the US) should have tried to do the same to,
say Norway! The Danes, the Swedes and the Finns would be arming, sabotaging,
sinking US ships to protect their fellow Scandinavians - they did it to
Germany. You know, this is so beyond my grasp, how America can bray these
accusations and lies, while engaging in an illegal war in Iraq! A GODLY
NUMBER OF AMERICANS ARE NOT NORMAL!
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- Did you see how big (the) coverage there was of the demonstrations?
All or most of the demonstrators - screeching ~ I am so enraged. AND
by the way, Ahmadinejad is right....the "Holocaust" never killed
6 million Jews! I worked for weeks with official German government documents
online 3 years ago - taking the number of gas chambers, their size and
capacity, the date they were operational and the date they were shut down
- they could not physically have killed more than 2.7 million PEOPLE (not
just Jews) in the number of gas chambers they had built IF THEY WENT FULL
TILT 24/7 and never were down for cleaning and repair. Then 6 months ago
A CONSERVATIVE Think Tank in Washington came out with a study on the
same subject, they came up with 2.3 million people being killed in the
gas chambers.
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- America is a disgrace to the world - it is about time
it gets its just desert, in whatever form that might take!"
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- When the Russians wanted to talk near the end of the
Cold War we not only listened, but we entered into dialogue, and
we regularly hosted Russian Premiers, just as we today host Chinese heads
of state, despite Korea, Taiwan, and for awhile our differences over
Vietnam . . . how quickly we forget the 'very many' things we've done
as a nation, and how few of those things have been about anything except
invasion, war or regime-change.
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- This continues because our people seemingly have no memory
and very little concern whenever the topic turns to politics. It is almost
criminal, that so many know so little about the people into whose hands
they have placed their dreams, their fortunes and their very lives: That
is what we have done: and in so doing both Israel and the USA have actually
become 'nations' without a Past"
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- The wildest part is that it's still happening right now-now
when we are STILL buried alive inside Iraq. We've been in that war since
1991, almost continuously that's a year longer than Vietnam, and
the end of this leaderless nightmare will end just as Vietnam did and
for the same reasons: if we don't demand withdrawal now. In Vietnam we
had over 500,000 troops, in Iraq we're running at about 400,000 (counting
the Mercenaries). In Vietnam we could not get the US government to act,
and eventually the Vietnamese chased us out. In Iraq, if we do not act
soon, the same result will remove those choices this congress still refuses
to make. This is about controlling the price of oil and the profits generated
by those price hikes, not-to-mention the vast sums that disappear into
the Secret-contracts and the lack of so much of everything else that makes
life bearable anywhere! Yet despite all this we refuse to engage
in simple conversations that might avert another massive blunder by the
same people that brought us ALL-THOSE-LIES and all that death & destruction
how many years ago? The specifics matter greatly take ten
minutes and make your own decision. (3)
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- kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net
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- 1) Iran's Century of Upheaval
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/618649.stm
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- 2) Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 1
- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18453.htm
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- 3) The Killing Fields of the War on Terror for Oil -
video
- http://worldwide-sawdust.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1431 ?
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