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What got us into this nightmare was
a lengthy string of mega-lies that originated within the twisted plans of
Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, back in the 1970's. The U.S. presidents
that have come and gone since then, have each played their part, in
bringing us kicking and screaming to this decision point. There are
several major parallax-views that have led the public to misunderstand and
misinterpret the political events and military actions in the Middle-East:
Actions that have kept our invasions going, and that now threaten to
up-end the world-if these lies are allowed to serve, yet again; for
another cover-story that can only end in chaos!
The November elections set the
stage for this final confrontation between the desires of the public and
the needs of the Outlaws: when it comes to funding and perpetuating our
illegal and unilateral military responses to circumstances and to the
control of those powers and resources that have become the global stance
which has always underpinned the players in their intrigues in the
Middle-East. Many nations now are involved to the point of
self-extermination in the literal outcomes of how our continued presence
there is handled.
It has taken almost forty years
to get to the point where the United States government could be reduced
from a single government consisting of three branches-to a cabal that has
absolute power and that speaks for not only the other two branches, but
who is totally opposed to the preferences and the well-being of the people
of the United States as well!
One indication of this paradox is
the recent behavior of Nancy Pelosi, in her capacity as the Speaker of the
US House of Representatives. If George W. Bush launches a pre-emptive war
on Iran, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will bear full moral responsibility
for that war; and her hands will always have the bloodstains of millions
of lives upon them - so long as she lives!
"For it was Pelosi who
quietly agreed to strip out of the $100 billion funding bill for Iraq a
provision that would have required President Bush to seek congressional
approval before launching any new war on Iran. "'It would take away
perhaps the most important tool the U.S. has when it comes to Iran,' she
said of the now-abandoned provision.
"I don't think it was a very
wise idea to take things off the table if you're trying to get people to
modify their behavior and normalize in a civilized way," said Gary
Ackerman of New York. According to John Nichols of The Nation, Pelosi's
decision to strip the provision barring Bush from attacking Iran without
Congress' approval "sends the worst possible signal to the White
House."
"The speaker has erred
dangerously and dramatically," writes Nichols. Her "disastrous
misstep could haunt her and the Congress for years to come." Nichols
does not exaggerate.
If Bush now launches war on Iran,
he can credibly say Congress and the Democrats gave him a green light. For
Pelosi, by removing a provision saying Bush does not have the authority,
de facto concedes he does have the authority. Bush and Cheney need now not
worry about Congress. They have been flashed the go-sign for war on Iran.
Nothing in the provision would
have prevented Bush, as commander in chief, from responding to an Iranian
attack or engaging in hot pursuit of an enemy found in Iraq. Nor would the
provision have prevented Bush from threatening Iran. It would simply have
required him to come to Congress -- before launching all-out war. Now
Pelosi has, in effect, ceded Bush carte blanche to take out Iran's nuclear
facilities. It's all up to him and Cheney." (1)
The Second Indication that
something is dangerously amiss - are the numbers in the surge. The
original demand was for 21,000. That number has since been added to,
twice; and now it looks more like 40,000 total. There was never any
attempt to comply with the wishes of the electorate or the congress,
because the Decider acted immediately upon the announcement of his stated
decision - as though no approval was required, from either the people or
the congress: This, despite the fact that the public, the congress, and
the world had all registered strong disapproval for his plans from the
moment he announced them. If The Decider is determined to 'act as a
president and not a Dictator-he has a direct obligation to respond to
obvious opposition, with something besides contempt!
But that's only a sideshow: The
real point is how these 'surged' troops will now be used. The Decider says
they will be assigned to Baghdad. But it's far more likely that these are
the same troops that a Russian Satellite has just spotted, massing along
the Iran border with Iraq-troops that will now be used to pre-emptively
invade Iran. (2) Bush is lying to the world one more time, to
create yet another WAR-Without-Reason: except of course to keep him, his
friends, and his supporters out of jail and still in office-until he can
disappear into Paraguay, without a backward glance. He's lied to the world
so many times before, what's one-more-LIE, when the world has apparently
swallowed so many of his lies already?
The Third Indication is the
immediate reactions by those in the area, to what is obviously about to
be. There were supposed to be US war games taking place yesterday and
today in the Gulf: last night the media had "film at eleven" of
two US aircraft carriers conducting war-games just beyond the territorial
limits of Iran, in the Gulf. An Iranian Admiral has just denied that any
such actions ever happened. (3) The Brits are also making
warlike noises over the detention of 15 British Sailors and Marines,
captured by Iran, in what Iran claims were Iranian waters. Tony Blair says
otherwise and is demanding their release. So now there are two clay
pigeons sitting outside or inside Iran either or both of which can be used
as the next "Tonkin Gulf incident" for Iran.
The Fourth Paradox is perhaps the
most complex and dangerous element: yet in an ironic twist of potentials,
this one may just offer a possible way out, if it doesn't become the
actual reason to launch this operation-for in the twisted minds of the
rabid American and Israeli war-mongers they absolutely want these new wars
to happen!
"DUBAI, United Arab
Emirates: The president of the United Arab Emirates forbade the U.S.
military from using bases in his country to attack or spy on Iran as
mammoth U.S. Navy maneuvers in the Gulf entered their second day. Sheik
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who leads this key U.S. ally, said Tuesday
that the Emirates had assured Iran that it was not siding with Washington
in its dispute over Tehran's nuclear program.
Leaders of Arab nations around
the Gulf have grown increasingly uneasy with the tough U.S. stance toward
Iran, believing any outbreak of war would bring Iranian retaliation on
their own soil, which lies in easy reach of Iranian missiles. On
Wednesday, the U.S. Navy continued its largest show of force in the Gulf
since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, with 15 ships, 125 aircraft and 13,000
sailors taking part in an exercise that veered within a few dozen miles of
Iran's coast." (4) However it should be noted that Egypt,
Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey, along with a host of other states would also
be drawn, one way or another, into any new war on Iran.
"The Russians and the
Chinese for their part are also concerned, beyond their strictly
commercial interests in that nation. "Russia's Foreign Ministry has
sharply criticized the United States for what it called over-reliance on
force and warned Washington against military action against Iran, The
Associated Press reported. Russia criticized what it called "the
creeping American strategy of dragging the global community into a
large-scale crisis around Iran," saying that Tehran helps maintain
stability in Afghanistan and Central Asia." In an already scrubbed
report, Russian and China had also warned the US that Washington must sit
down at the table with Iran and solve this dilemma diplomatically.
Simultaneously they also told Iran that they needed to back down from
their hard line position on developing nuclear facilities. It would appear
that these two major nuclear powers want this stand-off defanged, so that
the world can return to that time before the USA began to behave like the
Hulk-of-all-Superpowers that has become overly enchanted with their own
purely-macho approach to international affairs. (5)
This is the totality of what's on
the table now, and thanks to Nancy Pelosi, there is no congressional way
to stop the Bushwhackers from shattering the Middle-East-like the
proverbial Piņata that floats above the banquet-table of the
war-mongers-drooling over the 'possibilities' that await their next and
perhaps final move to empower Israel, and to capture the entire
Middle-East, for the Corporatocracy and the Oil, in a bold and savage
move.
The only final Paradox that
remains, is that in all of this American Military planners have failed to
account for what they may actually face with this new attack-exactly as
they did when Rummy ran his dog & pony show into Baghdad in 2003. No
matter how many times the lies of this administration are repeated-it does
not make them true! As the intensity of the bloodlust in their greed does
not insure success; so too the half-hearted assessments of the defense of
Iran, will not change the outcomes of the trajectories of Iranian missiles
one iota. If this misguided and criminal attack gets underway-at any
time-the world will suffer for this crime: for decades to come if any of
us survive at all. Congress is now irrelevant-again-but the rest of the
planet is apparently awakening to the reality that now threatened people
everywhere. Why not add your voice to those of the other peoples that
oppose this Nightmare NOW! (6)
Jim Kirwan
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