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yaz
09-24-2007, 04:28 PM
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/romney-calls-on-un-to-bar-iranian-president/
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/24/romneys-anti-ahmadinejad-ad/?hp

Make sure you read those two links. Mitt Romney adds to the mindless rage against Iran, the same kind of rage that ended up leading the US to invade Iraq and kill over a million civilians.

Mitt, did someone elevate you to president while America wasn’t looking? It’s not your job to call for action against a foreign leader. It might be Rice’s job but not yours. Last I heard, you didn’t have a job. You are just an average citizen like the rest of us.

Meanwhile, Israel continues to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian territories with our full support.

Meanwhile, over one million Iraqi’s have been murdered due to our illegal invasion.

Why is Iran Our “Enemy”?

Iran has the oil and is not under the thumb of Washington, making them a de facto “enemy” of the U.S. and the west in general. Israel, the United States militant ally in the region, has always longed to install their own puppet government in Lebanon to make the “refugee problem” much simpler to “solve”. Iran has ties to Hezbollah, which has successfully defied Israels imperialist ambitions in Lebanon. Therefore, Iran is only our enemy and Israel’s enemy in so much as they have proven to be a serious obstacle to imperial aggression; not because they pose any serious threat to the United States or Israeli homelands.

Let’s logically look at the Iranian “threat”. What would happen to Iran if they attacked either Israel or the United States, either directly or through a secondary agent? The answer is simple; they would be wiped from the face of the earth in a few hours. Israel has the capability to do this all by themselves. The United States clearly could do it as well. So, an attack by Iran would essentially be a call for mass suicide by the Iranian government. That makes little sense. What makes a lot of sense, in fact it’s as clear as day at a mere glance, is the concept that Iran is only our “enemy” because they refuse to cater to U.S. and Israeli hegemony in the region. It’s obvious.

Let’s look at the nuclear threat that has everyone up in arms. Iran has maintained the right to produce nuclear power, which is in fact their right under the existing Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaties. No independent monitor has found any proof that they have moved in the direction of nuclear weaponry, yet the U.N. still has been bullied into sanctioning them. Meanwhile, it is common knowledge that Israel has stockpiled an enormous nuclear arsenal at Iran’s doorstep, thanks to the good old U.S.A, in violation of those same NPT’s. When the U.N has repeatedly called for sanctions to be brought against Israel, the U.S. has vetoed those proposed sanctions in an egregious double standard that is never commented on in the United States corporate media.

By the way, the propaganda hit it’s peak with the corporate media firestorm over Iranian President Ahmadinejad allegedly saying, “Israel must be wiped off the map,” which, it turns out was conveniently mistranslated in the U.S. and Israel. What he actually said, which was barely reported after the fact, was “The regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the pages of history”. Much different. It was clearly a shot at the current Israeli leadership and its illegal and immoral OCCUPATION of Palestinian territory, not the civilian population.

In any case, one needs to just look at the facts to see that WE are the threat to Iran, and not the other way around. If Iran’s greatest resource were pistachios and coffee beans, would they be our enemy? Of course not.

But getting back to the nuclear issue for a moment, one has to ask, why would Iran want a nuclear arsenal, if indeed they do? What would be the reason? The answer is simple and can be found by taking a comparative look at how the U.S. government handled two of the three members of the “axis of evil”.

North Korea has a modest nuclear arsenal and therefore will not be attacked by the United States. Instead, we are forced to deal with North Korea through diplomatic means. Iraq had no such deterrent, and therefore was attacked as a first resort. What lesson did this teach Iran? What lesson did it teach the rest of the world? The United States, the leading Rogue State on the planet earth, perhaps in human history, will attack wherever and whenever they see a potential threat, real or imagined, unless there is a nuclear deterrent. Essentially, George Bush’s unilateral, illegal invasion has basically told the world to acquire nuclear weapons, or else face the consequences. Would you blame Iran for wanting a nuclear deterrent under this scenario? Should they be punished for a situation that WE created?

We are the leading Rogue Nation and State sponsor of terrorism on the planet. Not Iran.

yaz
09-24-2007, 08:29 PM
do yall agree with Romney or what?

constituent
09-24-2007, 09:13 PM
naah man, i think you're right on target...

all this non-sense about 'developing' nuclear weapons
is absolute garbage though... 'developing' is what they
did 60 yrs. ago, since then the name of the game has been
simplificiation... and it's gotten there.

this isn't a big secret, nor a carefully guarded one. in fact,
thanks to patent regulations, you or anyone else can do a
little looking and find all that you need.

long story short, Iran... w/ billions to spend... would have
nuclear weapons if they really wanted them, and so would
anyone else... all this centrifuge crap is just that, crap.

yaz
09-24-2007, 09:52 PM
It's common sense.