can_o_worms wrote:

Book: Israel, Lobby Pushing Iran War

http://www.forward.com/articles/book-israel-lobby-pushing-iran-war/

Nathan Guttman Fri. Dec 29, 2006

A former United Nations weapons inspector and leading
Iraq War opponent has written a new book alleging that
Jerusalem is pushing the Bush administration into war
with Iran, and accusing the pro-Israel lobby of dual
loyalty and "outright espionage."

In the new book, called "Target Iran," Scott Ritter,
who served as a senior U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq
from 1991 to 1998 and later became one of the war's
staunchest critics, argues that the United States is
readying for military action against Iran, using its
nuclear program as a pretext for pursuing regime change
in Tehran.

I listend to Ritter and I don;t know why he love repressive regiems so
much. He could just be a Bush Hater. He failed to address to
sanctions that were being violated and all the votes the UN with
athorized the actions taken. Under Clinton in 1998 India and Pakistand
tested nuclear weapons. The Iranians foment so much hate and sponsor
kids to blow themselvs up as weapons. I don't see how you can trust a
group of people with so little reguard for life with such powerful
weapons. With all the unprovoked attack that have been made on Israel
it is very likely they would just try to wipe out Israel again. Still
terrorists in one hand and nukes in another it is tough to imagine the
influence they would have in the regoin. If they get nuclear weapons
neighaboring states have said they would get them too. The last thing
we need is more places to get nukes and more targets of opertunity for
radicals to take power over some of these nukes use them and leave the
residence of those countries as fodder for possible retaliation.

I always step back and look at what is behind terrorism. It is a
repressive backward culture that rejects the values of west and
individual. The governments who sponsor this culture preside over
repressive regiems in which freedom is a threat. It is Jihadist
propiganda which tells these people that you have two choices their
holy life or Bay Watch. That is a false choice there are several
prosperous non-oilprdusing islamic countries. These countries embrase
freedom while maintaing their Moslem culture, mush like Japan being
both modern and traditional. The Kurds in Iraq have embrased freedom
and stopped the terrorist and they are building a western modern
prosperous society. If the terrorists would go away and the forces of
tollerance could triumph that part of the world would be much better
off. While these repressive regiems stay in power and export terror to
their neighabors we will have conflict. To end the conflict you have
to go to the heart of the repression. We saw it with the Nazies and
Comunism. In fact the Bath Party is a modern incarnation of the Arabic
Nazi party.