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"Alpha Bravo Charlie" |
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06 Mar 2006 08:06:46 PM |
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Mad Neocons Howl For War With Iran |
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8663
Another War for Israel
The amen corner howls for war with Iran
by Justin Raimondo
A prominent public official finally said what we've been saying all
along in these pages:
"The U.S. presence in Iraq is hurting the worldwide war on terrorism
and benefits only Iran and al-Qaeda, U.S. Rep. John Murtha said on
Sunday. 'The only people who want us in Iraq are Iran and al-Qaeda,'
Murtha said on CBS's Face the Nation political talk show. 'And I talked
to a top-level commander the other day and he said China wants us there
also. Why? Because we're depleting our resources ... our troop
resources and our fiscal resources.'"
Not to worry: Iran, it seems, is next on our hit list, and this is
largely at the behest of the one beneficiary of the Iraq war Murtha
fails to mention: Israel. The Israelis have been loudly howling for
months about the prospect of a nuclear Iran: their amen corner in the
U.S. has gone into overdrive, pushing for sanctions and drawing a dire
picture of nuke-wielding "mad mullahs." The world was shocked when
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened to wipe Israel off the
map, yet it has to be said that even the maddest mullahs don't imagine
nuking Washington, D.C. Iran's nukes, if it ever acquires any - in 10
years' time, like the experts say - will more than likely target Tel
Aviv, not Toledo.
Yet in one important sense, at least, the former is just as American as
the latter - at least it is in the eyes of American decision-makers,
who conduct U.S. foreign policy as if Israel were the 51st state. An
outstanding example of this unique symbiosis is the news that the
Israelis have penetrated Iran via U.S.-occupied Iraq, with the full
complicity and assistance of the Americans:
"Israel's special forces are said to be operating inside Iran in an
urgent attempt to locate the country's secret uranium enrichment sites.
'We found several suspected sites last year but there must be more,' an
Israeli intelligence source said. They are operating from a base in
northern Iraq, guarded by Israeli soldiers with the approval of the
Americans, according to Israeli sources."
This sort of scuttlebutt has been knocking around ever since Seymour
Hersh first broke the story of Israel's penetration of Kurdistan. The
point is that the extension of American power in the Middle East has
allowed Tel Aviv's tentacles to slither all the way to the Euphrates
and beyond - to Tehran.
The Times of London also reveals that NATO is keen to get in on the
act: "multilateralism," i.e., gang-banging, is back in style. This
ought to delight the Democrats, who are in some ways ahead of the
Republicans (and certainly ahead of the Bush administration) on the
Iran issue. Hillary Clinton has done everything but call for declaring
war on the mullahs, and House Democratic mis-Leader Nancy Pelosi
supported the movement to impose draconian economic sanctions on Iran.
The supposedly "antiwar" Democrats are getting way out ahead of the
Bush administration when it comes to Part II of the Great Middle
Eastern War. With Hillary's finger on the trigger, the first shots of
World War IV are almost certain to be sounded.
The dramatic narrative of the Iranian nuke crisis is going according to
a familiar script, one we became well-acquainted with in the run-up to
war with Iraq. All the same ingredients of the Iraqi potboiler are
being thrown into the mix: a Middle Eastern country ruled by an
unattractive tyrant, Israel's partisans furiously beating the drums for
war, and "weapons of mass destruction" described by dubious exile
groups. Playing the part of Chalabi, we have the Marxoid-feminist cult
of Maryam Rajavi and her army of Amazonian fighters. Ostensibly
corralled within the walls of Camp Ashraf in Iraq, these Iranian
"freedom fighters" - half of them women - are on the State
Department's list of terrorist organizations. Yet I have it on good
authority that American visas are being handed out to these burly gals
at a fast clip: all they have to do is show up at a U.S. embassy
somewhere in the Middle East - say, Istanbul - and they are granted
"asylum" in the U.S. They constitute a reserve army ready to spring
into action when the time comes to put an Iranian face on an American
invasion.
The UN Security Council is slated to discuss the Iranian nuke issue
shortly, and the sequence of events - Western demands that Iran cease
and desist, followed by angry Iranian refusals - is perfectly suited
to war propaganda. As the pace of the narrative picks up and the
tension builds, the war drama unfolds according to a by-now-timeworn
pattern. It's not the kind of screenplay that usually wins an Academy
Award: this is strictly formulaic stuff, designed to give consumers of
war propaganda what they need in order to rationalize mass murder. It
may be crude - as in the case of Saddam Hussein's alleged ties to
al-Qaeda, or tales of WMD hidden beneath Saddam's Babylonian palaces
- but it does the job.
Remember how important the nuclear issue was for getting us into the
Iraqi quagmire: this time around, the same crew is pushing the same
button. A recent poll shows that a clear majority of Americans are
willing to risk war in order to stop the Iranians from going nuclear.
Invoking the specter of nuclear annihilation is the best way to scare
the living daylights out of otherwise thinking people. If the War Party
can convince the Americans that the "mad mullahs" are on the brink of
having the ability to nuke New York, they will have accomplished their
mission.
Some, like Gore Vidal, believe we live in "the United States of
Amnesia," and that Americans can't remember what happens from week to
week, never mind the lies they told last year and the year before. I
respectfully disagree: the people clearly realize they were lied into
war, and they aren't happy about it. As to whether they'll let the War
Party get away with pulling another fast one, that remains to be seen.
The Republicans, if they are smart, will bet on "no" and back away from
the abyss, while the Democrats blithely step off the ledge and invite
the rest of the country to come with them. The Bushies are already
under fire for going soft on those Ay-rabs with the Dubai
port-management brouhaha, and the Democrats show every sign of taking
up with alacrity Marshall Wittmann's advice and outflanking the GOP on
"national security" issues, i.e., out-warmongering the Republicans.
As the next presidential campaign season looms, the prospect of John
McCain and Hillary Clinton going at it mano a mano, in a contest to see
who can bluster with a more convincing bellicosity - well, all I can
say is that the presidential debates will redefine gender roles for the
next hundred years, and it isn't going to be pretty.
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| Title: Re: Mad Neocons Howl For War With Iran |
07 Mar 2006 07:22:51 PM |
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Alpha Bravo Charlie wrote:
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8663
Another War for Israel
The amen corner howls for war with Iran
by Justin Raimondo
A prominent public official finally said what we've been saying all
along in these pages:
"The U.S. presence in Iraq is hurting the worldwide war on terrorism
and benefits only Iran and al-Qaeda, U.S. Rep. John Murtha said on
Sunday. 'The only people who want us in Iraq are Iran and al-Qaeda,'
Murtha said on CBS's Face the Nation political talk show. 'And I talked
to a top-level commander the other day and he said China wants us there
also. Why? Because we're depleting our resources ... our troop
resources and our fiscal resources.'"
Not to worry: Iran, it seems, is next on our hit list, and this is
largely at the behest of the one beneficiary of the Iraq war Murtha
fails to mention: Israel. The Israelis have been loudly howling for
months about the prospect of a nuclear Iran: their amen corner in the
U.S. has gone into overdrive, pushing for sanctions and drawing a dire
picture of nuke-wielding "mad mullahs." The world was shocked when
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened to wipe Israel off the
map, yet it has to be said that even the maddest mullahs don't imagine
nuking Washington, D.C. Iran's nukes, if it ever acquires any - in 10
years' time, like the experts say - will more than likely target Tel
Aviv, not Toledo.
You'll not be surprised that the Vice President spoke sternly to Iran in
front of AIPAC, the America-Israel Political Action Committee, the
biggest group, next to the GOP, of traitors in the land.
WK
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: Mad Neocons Howl For War With Iran |
09 Mar 2006 06:36:32 PM |
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On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:22:51 GMT, Wunderkind <a@b.com> wrote in
alt.atheism
Alpha Bravo Charlie wrote:
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8663
Another War for Israel
The amen corner howls for war with Iran
by Justin Raimondo
A prominent public official finally said what we've been saying all
along in these pages:
"The U.S. presence in Iraq is hurting the worldwide war on terrorism
and benefits only Iran and al-Qaeda, U.S. Rep. John Murtha said on
Sunday. 'The only people who want us in Iraq are Iran and al-Qaeda,'
Murtha said on CBS's Face the Nation political talk show. 'And I talked
to a top-level commander the other day and he said China wants us there
also. Why? Because we're depleting our resources ... our troop
resources and our fiscal resources.'"
Not to worry: Iran, it seems, is next on our hit list, and this is
largely at the behest of the one beneficiary of the Iraq war Murtha
fails to mention: Israel. The Israelis have been loudly howling for
months about the prospect of a nuclear Iran: their amen corner in the
U.S. has gone into overdrive, pushing for sanctions and drawing a dire
picture of nuke-wielding "mad mullahs." The world was shocked when
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened to wipe Israel off the
map, yet it has to be said that even the maddest mullahs don't imagine
nuking Washington, D.C. Iran's nukes, if it ever acquires any - in 10
years' time, like the experts say - will more than likely target Tel
Aviv, not Toledo.
You'll not be surprised that the Vice President spoke sternly to Iran in
front of AIPAC, the America-Israel Political Action Committee, the
biggest group, next to the GOP, of traitors in the land.
Not at all.
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at a high rate of speed. I trust you'll
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| User: "John Baker" |
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| Title: Re: Mad Neocons Howl For War With Iran |
08 Mar 2006 04:03:46 AM |
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On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:22:51 GMT, Wunderkind <a@b.com> wrote:
Alpha Bravo Charlie wrote:
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8663
Another War for Israel
The amen corner howls for war with Iran
by Justin Raimondo
A prominent public official finally said what we've been saying all
along in these pages:
"The U.S. presence in Iraq is hurting the worldwide war on terrorism
and benefits only Iran and al-Qaeda, U.S. Rep. John Murtha said on
Sunday. 'The only people who want us in Iraq are Iran and al-Qaeda,'
Murtha said on CBS's Face the Nation political talk show. 'And I talked
to a top-level commander the other day and he said China wants us there
also. Why? Because we're depleting our resources ... our troop
resources and our fiscal resources.'"
Not to worry: Iran, it seems, is next on our hit list, and this is
largely at the behest of the one beneficiary of the Iraq war Murtha
fails to mention: Israel. The Israelis have been loudly howling for
months about the prospect of a nuclear Iran: their amen corner in the
U.S. has gone into overdrive, pushing for sanctions and drawing a dire
picture of nuke-wielding "mad mullahs." The world was shocked when
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened to wipe Israel off the
map, yet it has to be said that even the maddest mullahs don't imagine
nuking Washington, D.C. Iran's nukes, if it ever acquires any - in 10
years' time, like the experts say - will more than likely target Tel
Aviv, not Toledo.
You'll not be surprised that the Vice President spoke sternly to Iran in
front of AIPAC, the America-Israel Political Action Committee, the
biggest group, next to the GOP, of traitors in the land.
No, it doesn't really surprise me.
WK
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