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The Washington Post reports that at a
recent meeting, Vice President Cheney's national security adviser John
Hannah said 2007 is "the Year of Iran ."
Given the background of the US government's lying ways in all things to
do with WAR: The time has come for the United States to stop holding "SECRET" news conferences in which reporters are denied the use of their
cell phones and are not allowed to question anything they are shown. When
something is "revealed" at a press conference, part of the ability to
determine the veracity of what is being introduced requires an individual
to place his or her reputation on the line-in public-and to answer all
questions about whatever is shown or is purported to have taken place. If
this cannot be done - then no such "revelation" ought to be part
of any record anywhere.
The United States has cried "Wolf" way too many times since the coup of
2000 to ever be taken seriously again - by the world or the people of this
country. In this instance the government is treating Americans and the
wider-world as infant children that are being told to believe whatever
they hear without any of the necessary proofs for what is being shown or
suggested by dubious and cloaked "official information." (1)
To underscore the problems with secret accusations about the origin of
weapons systems, there's this from NEWSHOG http://cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com/2005:
"Eight British soldiers killed during ambushes in Iraq were the
victims of a highly sophisticated bomb first used by the IRA, The
Independent on Sunday can reveal.
The soldiers, who were targeted by insurgents as they traveled through
the country, died after being attacked with bombs triggered by infra-red
beams. The bombs were developed by the IRA using technology passed on by
the security services in a botched "sting" operation more than a
decade ago.
This contradicts the British government's claims that Iran's
Revolutionary Guard is helping Shia insurgents to make the devices. The
Independent on Sunday can also reveal that the bombs and the firing
devices used to kill the soldiers, as well as two private security guards,
were initially created by the UK security services as part of a
counter-terrorism strategy at the height of the troubles in the early
1990s. . . .look at the so-called evidence presented at a secret-squirrel
briefing in Iraq today, purporting to show that IED's and other weapons
come from Iran. It falls far short of a slam-dunk
case." (2)
Given that weapons can "travel" through a number of hands before being
used - There must be a public press conference, on the record and in the
open, especially now-as the US has just officially committed a third US
Carrier Strike Task Force to the Persian Gulf.
This dubious "press conference" came at a time when the world
is becoming more than weary of the sole-super-power status of the U.S. In
fact it is the almighty tyranny of the solitary nation-state that stands
atop all that is at the root of the insanity throughout the Middle-East
and beyond. The proof lies in the decades of relative calm that protected
most of the world, to some degree, during the Cold War. When the USSR
fell, so did the defense of smaller nations from the open tyranny of
aggression and greed, implemented by a unipolar military free-reign. And
it is this curse has now been forced upon the world. Putin had this to say
about the continuing battle with USrael and its excessive ambitions at the
moment.
"In a speech in Germany, which one U.S. senator said smacked of
Cold War rhetoric, Putin accused the United States of making the world a
more dangerous place by pursuing policies aimed at making it "one
single master".
Attacking the concept of a "unipolar" world in which the
United States was the sole superpower, he said: "What is a unipolar
world? No matter how we beautify this term it means one single center of
power, one single center of force and one single master."
"It has nothing in common with democracy because that is the
opinion of the majority taking into account the minority opinion," he
told the gathering of top security and defense officials." (3)
Without a balancing and very powerful military adversary, virtually any
nation with the kind of brute force that we possess might find itself more
than tempted to use that power to dominate all lesser powers on the
planet. While there is currently no one country to oppose us, there are
new alliances that more than equal the old Soviet Union. We should heed
the repeated warnings from both Russia and China and begin to talk now!
But that idea is as dead as the so-called non-binding resolution that
didn't happen. Some in Congress wanted the Decider to have to face some "consequences" and to have to confront the stated will of the public.
However Congress failed - AGAIN, and the media continues to talk about
dozens of potential candidates, as though all this can be solved by simply
"looking to the future..."
What few seem to see-is that what comes next in the Middle-East will
determine whether or not there will be an election in 2008. Oh, and in
four days, the House of Representatives is expected to have a vote on that
non-binding resolution (now that the policy has already been implemented),
so this vote too will just be another meaningless gesture! In the end -
What is this Congress really good for, because it certainly does not
represent anyone except Israel and the Bankers and the Corporations. What
happened to what it used to mean to be an American?
Jim Kirwan
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