Would You Buy a Nuclear War from This Man?

I want to nuke 'em, I want to nuke 'em NOW!

No? Well, congratulations! You already have! He's convinced Sweet Oxy-Condi to tag along on the nuke bandwagon, and pretty soon you, O Taxpayer of Little Faith, will be the proud owner of your Very Own Nuclear War! With that country about which I'm sure you know a whole hell of a lot, and for whom you feel the utmost ire & enmity, Iran!

Here's a slightly edited and worth-perusing excerpt from the "DownsizeDC" group, normally a libertarian group that endorses Ron Paul, is not so hot about socialized medicine, but really has it on the money on a number of issues, including the Department of Homeland Security and Patriot Act, two "Essentially Cheney" creations that really express his line of thinking ... and the American taxpayers are the catwalk!

Here's an area where both left, right, and middle may agree: duh... going to Armageddon and killing civilians unnecessarily is NOT a good policy.

"URGENT ACTION REQUIRED!

Subject: The immediate mortal danger of attacking Iran

There is increasing evidence that President Bush intends to bomb Iran. This would . . .

• Reverse the progress we have made with Iranian public opinion

• Further entrench the "hardliners" in the Iranian regime

• Further radicalize the Muslim population across the Middle East

• Recruit countless numbers of new terrorists
• Place us in a state of irreversible war with Iran and its people
• Threaten oil shipments from the Persian gulf

(Why would a Big Oil Administration want to threaten oil shipments?? Must be something even Bigger than Big Oil!)

(Regarding "radicalizing" - unlike the writer, I believe this is really alienating Muslims from a sense of free participation in world events, the response to which is to take action to "participate" from the "outside" - which is where they have been pushed. It becomes a case of Us vs. Them - and guess who started this? Us, of course! it's not "blowback" - it's just participation by those who are denied participation - by force, on both sides...)

The combined impact would be to destabilize the entire region, fostering bin Laden's goal of creating radical Islamist regimes throughout the area. Most chilling is the potential impact on Pakistan. If Pakistan's population becomes further radicalized because of U.S. attacks against Muslims the result could be the creation of an Islamist regime. Pakistan already has nuclear weapons, and elements of Pakistan's security service has close ties to the Taliban and Al Qaeda, dating back to the war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.

If President Bush bombs Iran the result could be exactly what he thinks he's trying to prevent -- nuclear weapons in the hands of terrorists. In addition, bombing Iran could slow that country's nuclear program, but it would not stop it. The Iranians could just begin again, with more secure underground sites, just like the Nazis did in response to allied bombing during World War II.

What would we do then? Use nuclear weapons? Vice President Cheney is said to already favor this!


There is nothing to be gained by bombing Iran, and everything to be lost. And yet, there are more and more reports that President Bush plans to attack Iran before he leaves office.


Worse yet, he already has Congressional authorization to do so because of the loose wording of previous war authorizations resolutions.


The whole world is at the mercy of President Bush's notoriously bad judgment, unless ALL OF US take action to constrain him. There is something we can do, in the short term, to stop an attack, and many things we can do in the long term to stabilize the situation and bring lasting security.In the short term . . .

• We must demand that Congress pass a resolution prohibiting an attack


• We must demand this of the Democrats even if the Republicans would resist


• We must focus extreme pressure on Congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid


• We must work to turn key Republicans in the House, and especially the Senate


• We must recruit more people to apply more pressure
  

Even if all we got was a majority vote in the House, because the Republicans blocked action in the Senate, that might be enough to stay the President's hand.

For the long term . . .We must compel Congress to recognize the truth of what Congressman Ron Paul and official reports of the C.I.A. and the Pentagon assert. Blowback against U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East is the main problem, which means pullback is the answer.


We must eliminate our footprint in Islamic countries. When we do that the process of radicalization will recede. This is the best path to peace and security for the American people. Specifically . . .

• We should exit Iraq, leaving the surrounding Islamic countries to create a settlement there


• We should renounce pre-emptive war and regime change, and adopt a policy of retaliatory deterrence
  
• We should recognize the government of Iran and establish formal relations with it


• We should apologize directly to the Iranian people for the 1953 C.I.A. coup and our support of the Shah


• We should lift trade sanctions on Iran to foster civil society there as a balance against extremism
  

Many facts form the basis of our proposals . . .We have a history of regime change in the Middle East, and especially Iran. We overthrew a democratic and secular Iranian government in 1953, and established the tyrannical Shah. The Iranians remember this. We have also just changed the regime in Iraq and placed Iran on the same target list.

Given these facts . . .You would want a nuclear weapon too, if you were part of the Iranian government!

We must take every possible step to make the Iranian regime feel secure, no matter how much we may dislike their form of government. It is possible . . .

• The Iranian government has repeatedly said that the main thing it wants from the U.S. is respect


• The Iranians have offered to defund Hezbollah as part of a broader settlement with the U.S.


• The Iranians have offered to help us against the Taliban in Afghanistan, which they also dislike


• The Afghanistan government favors Iranian aid against the Taliban, but we have blocked it.


• Our government has repeatedly snubbed Iranian overtures. We must stop doing this.

We recognized and negotiated with the Communists in China and the Soviet Union to good result, and we can do the same with the Iranians. We must remove the MOTIVATION for the Iranian government to develop nuclear weapons, and give them strong incentives for peaceful relations!

We must also bolster our relationship with the Iranian people. They have come to dislike their own government and are tending to have a neutral or even positive opinion of the U.S. After the 9-11 attack Iranians flooded the streets, demonstrating in support of America.

Bombing Iran would once again make us the enemy in the eyes of the Iranian people, when instead we could restore and foster their good opinion of us. It is important to repeat that we can do this by . . .

• Taking Iran off our enemies list
  
• Apologizing loudly and publicly for the 1953 coup and our support of the Shah


• Lifting trade sanctions!

Trade sanctions do not work. They cripple civil society and permit oppressive regimes to blame their own failings on foreign powers. They are counterproductive. We should end the sanctions unilaterally and bring Iran into the world community.
We have it in our power to enhance the peace and security of the whole world. All we have to do is stop provoking people. This does not mean that the radicals will stand down, but it does mean that the process of radicalization will slow, and perhaps even stop. But first . . .We must prevent an attack on Iran. Here's what we need to do . . .

• Send a message to Congress demanding a resolution prohibiting an attack


• Call the offices of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and demand a vote on this issue


• Call Nancy Pelosi at this number: 202-225-4965


• Call Harry Reid at this number: 202-224-3542
  
• If one or more of your Senators are Republicans, call them too

Pelosi and Reid are blocking a vote on this issue because they're afraid of appearing soft. We must give them the courage to do the right thing. Republicans in the Senate are the key to getting a vote in that chamber. We must make them fear public opinion. * Send your message to Congress*

Note: There are many movements against bombing Iran, notably also Gen. Wes Clark's. Why don't these all join together in one big anti-bombing bloc??????

Voodoo "Diplomacy"

Yes, it's official. There really is religion in politics. At least, in the Bush Administration, religion is King - with a crown. And I believe it's Caribbean. Yes, we're finally going to get back to tradition.

The tradition of voodoo. But not voodoo economics, no. That was Reaganomics. Bush &Co. are into effigies and pins. Will it work? We'll see - or so I fear. First, there was the Ahmadinejad doll, which was easy, because he kept helping himself to more pins. Then, there was the entire nation of Iran. Call it Mass Effigy Work. Iran as a nation, and the people in it, are all just one big doll, and the Bush administration the self-proclaimed Priestess. The pins? Big Media, of course. It's like one big urinal - the "contacts" take a "leak" and the urinal "flushes" it to the public. Are we not, to them, one great sewer? Don't you miss the days of the "melting pot"?

Here's some of the leaked "material" that accidentally got out of the "stream" - How? A thinking and mentally active reporter actually thought about and analyzed the "evidence" against Iran that has been gathered in the voodoo frenzied march to war on everyone on Some Special Someone's Dream List. As mentioned in this article:

"The Washington Post quoted one of the U.S. officials at the briefing as saying that there was no "widespread involvement" of the Iraqi government in supplying weaponry, thus implicitly conceding that some elements of the Iraqi government officials are indeed involved in the weapons traffic. By insisting that the Iranian government was involved, the Bush administration has conjured up the image of a smuggling operation so vast that it could not occur without official sanction. In fact, as Knights points out, the number of EFPs exploded monthly has remained at about 100, which clearly would not require high level connivance to maintain a flow of imports. The power point slides presented to the press in Baghdad ended with a slide that essentially confirms that the evidence points not to official sponsorship of cross-border weapons smuggling but to private arms trafficking networks. "

Regardless to whether or not we are convinced, it may be likely to happen. But that doesn't mean we can't pressure the government to avoid the potential disaster of such a stupendously, insanely destructive move.

War for Sale

How many Americans can see now that they are the number One consumers targeted by a hot-n-heavy ad campaign selling war with Iran?

Shouldn't it be a hard sell, after Iraq? Apparently not. An LA Times/Bloomberg poll recently shows that 57% of Americans favor military intervention in Iran. The late H.L. Mencken once said "Nobody ever lost money overestimating the stupidity of the American public." Apparently, the Administration applies this dim view to selling wars, too - and the ad campaign has succeeded. Which is not to say the war or military effort looming grimly over Iran - and to hell with justice, what the hell do we care about justice anyway? - will succeed. Not a chance in hell. No matter how it's sold, how much they tout their loot or power, it is doomed, absolutely doomed, to fail.

Why? Because the perpetrators of this idea failed to account to one slim bit of data that throws off their wildly illogical equations. Because "no man is an island." Because "Island America" doesn't really exist. Because we're fighting for fiction. We die for lies. We kill for a story line. We ignore the species thing. Oh, right, they're homo sapiens. So what if they're living on the same planet? So what if we're the same species? So what if we all need the same thing - duh, H2O? - and maybe some minerals, proteins, radiation-free vitamins, etc. ...? "For every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction." Did it dawn on anyone that there are consequences to what you do??? Look at Iraq, and wait. The worst is yet to come. And I don't have the slightest idea exactly where or how, but it's just a law of physics. You do this, you get slapped with that. Call it divine justice, call it Newton's or Murphy's law, it happens.

Look at the seed of all Mideast fruits - the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Now look at this excerpt from an article that started on the subject of Iran:

Israel has just “completed a process of sealing off the eastern sector of the West Bank from the remainder of the West Bank. Some 2,000,000 Palestinians, residents of the West Bank, are prohibited from entering the area, which constitutes around one-third of the West Bank, and includes the Jordan Rift, the area of the Dead Sea shoreline and the eastern slopes of the West Bank mountains”, reported the Israeli journalist Amira Hass of Israel’s daily, Ha’aretz. “The prohibition also applies to thousands of residents of towns and villages in the northern West Bank like Tubas and Tamun, most of whose lands are in the Jordan Valley, and some with residents who have been living there for many years’, added Hass.
In addition, Israel has encircled and isolated Jerusalem from the rest of the Occupied Territories, making the creation of a viable Palestinian “state” impossibility. More than 3.5 Palestinians are living in prison under unbearable apartheid system of control, checkpoints, road blocks and walls. And with the elections of Hamas, Israel is increasing the terror against the Palestinians from all sides. Thousands of Palestinian men, women and children are still imprisoned by Israeli occupation forces without charge. Of course, Western governments, the U.S. in particular, provided the financial “aid” and political support for Israel’s terror and violations of international law.

This may sound extreme to mainstream listeners, but it deserves to be looked at, because if it is true, we are missing something incredibly important. That the whole raison d'etre of U.S. foreign policy is based on something verging on the very thing I've always thought as the antithesis of Israel - and that is Nazism. Are the Israelis imitating their old enemy in some weird twist of fate or strange mirror imaging? Are Palestinians the new "Semites"? And Jews the new Aryan race? And is Israel the new Racially Pure State, ethnically cleansed from Arabs and Muslims, ethnically cleansed from goyim? Is that the ideal now in place? And what is America in this scenario? The Great Cash Cow, apparently. Ride 'em, cowboy.

We keep mouthing the word "Islamofascists". But who created them? Are they rather the mirror image of Judeofascists? Are they merely avenging the wrongs and injustices of the occupiers, of the powerful who live in luxury on the plunder and pillaging of others less powerful, others they themselves conspired to disenfranchise? And who gives a damn? We're numbed by videos, media, the frantic/manic Glenn Beck who is in this raging hurry to turn off his thoughts by cleverly posted prankish remarks that run his thinking off like a flushing toilet.

We're numbed by possibilities, by technology, by too much bombardment and too little time to assimilate anything, even food. And we want to "do the right thing" so we listen to whatever pops up on the screen and says "I am the way, the truth & the light", etc. The only ones with the (expletive) gall to say that are charlatans, and oh yes, how many charlatans there are, hustlers for oil and power and money and war. WWIII ho! "In the mighty name of 9-11."

All it needs is one great keyword. Terrorist. And bin Laden fell into the trap like a cement sack, or a very uncunning racoon. Sorry folks. Your great all-American Devil is just another fall guy. Yes, he's bad. Real bad. But if you're waiting for the next 9-11, look elsewhere. The Palestinians were the original "terrorists". It's a little bit harder sell now since their children can't even find a place to eat. No, they're pretty much internalized, you might say. But they're probably slightly better off than Iraqis. Is it a holocaust or not yet? Not yet, of course. Send in another bunch o' guys and make it one, by God! But does anyone have a slight bit of brainpower to deduce that Iraq is going to have fallout? ???? And God only knows what that would be?

If you really love America, you wouldn't buy this war sale, not wholesale or even piecemeal. Boycott war, and tell your elected representatives! Tell them they can't sell you a bill of goods. Tell them there's checks and balances. Tell them we still have a democracy. Tell them we are not yet a dictatorship. Tell them we don't believe in fascism. Tell them we can't afford to attack Iran, and neither can the planet, for God's sake. Tomorrow I hope to print another source about that - the horrible consequences of any military action against Iran. They are NOT the threat. WE ARE. That is, if we just sit back and buy this "superpower to the world" crap.

Tell them we believe in democracy, survival of the human race, and protection of a fragile planet and a little thing called "life" and "human intelligence" that's supposed to be a higher value than "Me First, F--- the Future." Is THAT freedom and democracy? Does anybody still believe in the value of diplomacy - or how about truth???