- On Christmas eve when Christians were celebrating the
Prince of Peace, the New York Times delivered forth a call for war. "There's
only one way to stop Iran," declared Alan J. Kuperman, and that is
"military air strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities."
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- Kuperman is described as the "director of the Nuclear
Proliferation Prevention Program at the University of Texas at Austin,"
but his Christmas eve call to war relies on disinformation and contradiction,
not on objective scholarly analysis.
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- For example, Kuperman contradicts the unanimous report
of America's 16 intelligence agencies, the reports of the International
Atomic Energy Agency, and Russian intelligence with his claim that Iran
has a nuclear weapon program. Astonishingly, it does not occur to Kuperman
that readers might wonder how an academic bureaucrat in Austin, Texas,
has better information than these authorities.
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- Kuperman is so determined to damn President Obama's plan
to have other countries enrich Iran's uranium for Iran's nuclear energy
program and medical isotopes that Kuperman commits astounding blunders.
After claiming that Iran has a "bomb program," Kuperman claims
that "Iran's uranium contains impurities" and that Ahmadinejad's
threat "to enrich uranium domestically to the 20 percent level . .
. is a bluff, because even if Iran could further enrich its impure uranium,
it lacks the capacity to fabricate the uranium into fuel elements."
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- What was the New York Times op ed editor thinking when
he approved Kuperman's article? Iran, Kuperman writes, needs "90
percent enriched uranium" to have weapons-grade material, but cannot
reach 20 percent or even make fuel elements for its nuclear energy. So,
how is Iran going to produce a bomb? Yet, Kuperman writes that "we
have reached the point where air strikes are the only plausible option
with any prospect of preventing Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons.
The sooner the United States takes action, the better."
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- It could not be made any clearer that, as with the US
invasion of Iraq, a military attack on Iran has nothing to do with weapons
of mass destruction. An "Iranian nuke" is just another canard
behind which hides an undeclared agenda.
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- One wonders about Kuperman's non-proliferation credentials.
How does a wanton military attack on a country encourage non-proliferation?
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- Aren't America's bullying, threats and acts of war more
likely to encourage countries to seek nuclear weapons?
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- At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the
United States has wars ongoing in Iraq where the ancient Chaldean Christian
community was destroyednot by Saddam Hussein but by the neoconservatives'
illegal invasion of Iraqin Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yeman, and Sudan.
The US initiated a war, which it lost, between its puppet ruler in the
former Soviet province of Georgia and Russia.
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- The US, the world's greatest supporter of terrorism,
is the main financier of terrorist groups that stage attacks within Iran,
and US money succeeded in financing protests against President Ahmadinejad's
re-election and in dividing the ruling Islamic clerics. It was American
money, weapons, and diplomatic cover that enabled the Israeli war crimes
against the Lebanese people during 2006 and against Palestinian civilians
in Gaza during 2008-2009, crimes documented in the Goldstone Report.
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- Iran has never interfered in US internal affairs, but
the US has a long record of interfering in Iranian affairs. In 1953 the
US overthrew Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mosaddeq and installed
a puppet who tortured Iranians who desired political independence.
- Despite this and other American offenses against Iran,
Ahmadinejad has repeatedly expressed Iran's interest to be on friendly
terms with the United States, only to be repeatedly rebuffed. The US wants
war with Iran in order to expand US world hegemony.
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- One might expect a non-proliferation expert to take history
into account, but Kuperman fails to do so. Kuperman also has nothing to
say about Israel's, India's and Pakistan's nuclear weapons. Unlike Iran,
none of these countries are signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty. Israel, India, and Pakistan all developed their nuclear weapons
in secret, and many experts believe Israel had American help, an act of
treason. All three countries have been rewarded by Washington despite
their perfidy.
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- Why is Kuperman concerned about Iran, which submits to
the IAEA inspections, but is unconcerned with Israel, a country that has
never permitted a single inspection?
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- The answer is that the Israel Lobby, the US military-security
complex, and the "Christian" Zionists have succeeded in demonizing
Iran. Every real expert knows that an Iranian nuclear weapon would have
no function other than deterring an attack on Iran. Ever since the US
lost its monopoly on nuclear weapons, after using them offensively and
pointlessly against a defeated Japan, nuclear weapons have served no purpose
other than deterrence.
- The US has no conflicting economic interests with Iran.
Iran is simply a supplier of oil, an important one. A US attack on Iran,
such as the one advocated by Kuperman, would most likely shut down oil
flows to the West through the Strait of Hormuz. This might benefit refiners,
who sell gasoline to the West and could charge enormous prices, but no
one else would benefit.
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- Adding to the war cry are congregations of fake Christians.
A great number of them, organized by someone's money under the banner,
"Christian Leaders for a Nuclear-free Iran," has written to
Congress demanding sanctions against Iran that amount to an act of war.
The roll call includes the "Christian" Zionist John Hagee, who,
according to reports, denigrates Jesus Christ and preaches to his illiterate
congregation that it is God's will for Americans to fight and die for Israel,
the oppressor of the Palestinian people.
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- Among the signatories of the "Christians" demanding
an act of war against Iran, are Dr. Pat Robertson, president of Christian
Broadcasting Network, Nixon-era criminal Chuck Colson, and Richard Land,
president of Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Southern Baptist
Convention. Obviously, for southern baptists ethics means murdering Islamists,
and religious liberty excludes everyone but "Christian" Zionists.
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- It is a simple matter for an educated person to make
fools of these morons who profess to be Christians. However, these morons
have vast constituencies numbering in the tens of millions of Americans.
There are, in fact, more of them than there are intelligent, informed,
moral, and real Christian Americans.
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- The votes of the morons will prevail.
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- In the second decade of the 21st century, America's Zionist
wars against Islam will expand. America's wars in behalf of Israel's territorial
expansion will complete the bankruptcy of America. The Treasury's bonds
to finance the US government's enormous deficits will lack for buyers.
Therefore, the bonds will be monetized by the Federal Reserve.
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- The result will be rising rates of inflation. The inflation
will destroy the dollar as world reserve currency, and the US will no longer
be able to pay for its imports. Shortages will appear, including food
and gasoline, and "Superpower America" will find itself pressed
to the wall as a third world country unable to pay its debts.
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- America has been brought low, both morally and economically,
by its obeisance to the Israel Lobby. Even Jimmy Carter, a former President
of the United States and Governor of Georgia recently had to apologize
to the Israel Lobby for his honest criticisms of Israel's inhumane treatment
of the occupied Palestinians in order for his grandson to be able to run
for a seat in the Georgia state senate.
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- This should tell the macho super-power American tough
guys who really runs "their" country.
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