MORE WARNING VOICES RAISED CONCERNING COMING ATTACK ON IRAN: =91The
Iraq War Morphs Into The Iranian War=92 =96 'Israel Preparing To Bomb Iran
Nuclear Sites'
The Iraq War Morphs Into The Iranian War
By Paul Craig Roberts,
via Information Clearing House,
29 April, 2008.
It is 1939 all over again. The world waits helplessly for the next act
of ****d aggression by rogue states. Only this time the rogue states
are not the Third Reich and Fascist Italy. They are the United States
and Israel.
The targeted victims are not Poland and France, but Iran, Syria, the
remains of the Palestinian West Bank and southern Lebanon.
The American mass media is overjoyed. War coverage attracts viewers
and sells advertising.
The neoconservatives are ecstatic. Hegemony uber alles is back on
track.
The US Air Force can=92t wait =93to show what it can do.=94
Defense contractors see no end of the profits.
Under cover of the mayhem and propaganda, Israel can grab the remains
of the West Bank and have another go at grabbing the water resources
of southern Lebanon.
Unlike the US and Israel, Iran is neither occupying any other
country=92s territory nor threatening to invade another country.
Nevertheless, propaganda against Iran is spouting from US and Israeli
mouths at an increasing rate. Lie after lie rolls off the tongues of
leaders of the =93two great democracies.=94
On April 27 Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs of
staff, blamed Iran for =93increasingly lethal and malign influence=94 in
Iraq. Has Admiral Mullen forgot that it is the US, not Iran, that is
responsible for as many as one million dead Iraqis and four million
displaced Iraqis, the =93collateral damage=94 of a =93cakewalk war=94 now
in=
to
its sixth year?
On April 26 the Wa****ngton Post re****ted that =93the Pentagon is
planning for potential military courses of action=94 against Iran.
The Bush Regime=92s national security advisor says Iran is a threat in
Iraq, an accusation echoed endlessly by secretary of defense Robert
Gates, secretary of state Rice, vice president Cheney, and president
Bush. The US, which has 150,000 troops in Iraq, is not a threat. The
US troops are protecting Iraq from Iran, al Qaeda, and the Taliban.
Just ask Fox =93News.=94
Doing its part to egg on war with Iran, the US TV news program, =9360
MInutes,=94 gave air time to the commander of the Israeli Air Force,
General Eliezer Shkedi, who declared in a special interview that
Iranian president Ahmadinejad was the new Hitler and that we must not
again make the mistake of disbelieving a Hitler.
There are better candidates for the role than Ahmadinejad.
Gen. Shkedi himself sounds like Hitler blaming Poland for the outbreak
of the second world war. Ahmadinejad has attacked no country, whereas
Israel repeatedly invades its neighbors and continues 40-year
occupations of Syrian and Palestinian territory.
As Noam Chomsky has written, the US government thinks that it owns the
world (Chomsky could have added that Israel thinks it owns the Middle
East and America). Americans can wallow in indignation over China=92s
occupation of Tibet, but be perfectly content with America=92s
occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. Israel can wax eloquently about
=93Palestinian terrorism=94 while its military and Zionist settlers
terrorize Palestinians.
Americans see no hypocrisy in =93their=94 government=92s damning of Russia
for opposing the incor****ation of former Russian satellites and
constituent parts in a US military alliance.
Americans see manifest destiny, not US aggression, when =93their=94
government drops bombs on Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, and
Pakistan. Americans do not think it is aggression for them to develop
war plans to attack Iran or China or N. Korea or whomever, or to
maintain hundreds of military bases all over the globe. The same
Americans work themselves into hysterical frenzies over =93Iranian
influence in Iraq=94 and =93al Qaeda plans to bring the war to America.=94
As Chomsky says, we own the world. No one else counts.
Except Israel.
Israel counts so much that every presidential candidate has declared
his and her willingness to expend whatever American blood and treasure
are necessary =93to protect Israel.=94 There are no limits on the promise
=93to defend Israel,=94 no matter what Israel does, no matter if Israel
initiates (yet again) war with its neighbors, no matter if it
continues to force Palestinians out of their homes and villages in
order to =93create living room=94 for Israelis.
With this sort of promise, why should Israel ever settle for anything
less than =93greater Israel=94?
Just as the US government launched its illegal invasion of Iraq on the
back of lies about weapons of mass destruction and mushroom clouds,
the US government claims it must attack Iran or Iran will build a
nuclear weapon. The Bush Regime has learned never to discard a lie as
long as it works.
The lie works for the US Congress, the US media and much of the US
public, but it is breaking down abroad. On April 27 the British
newspaper, the Independent, responded to the recent US government
claim that the Syrian facility attacked last September by Israel in an
act of ****d aggression was a nuclear reactor built by N. Korea:
=93There is no independent way to verify any of this, especially since
the installation has now been destroyed. We must rely on the integrity
of the Israeli and US intelligence. That is where we hit a problem.
The former US Secretary of State Colin Powell presented similar
evidence to the United Nations Security Council in February 2003
showing what we were told was strong evidence of Iraqi storage of
weapons of mass destruction. As we all know, that intelligence turned
out to be bogus.=94
A needless war, a country destroyed, all for bogus intelligence. Why
must we repeat our crime in Iran?
Why do we persist in our crime in Iraq? On April 27 McClatchy
Newspapers re****ted that 50 Iraqi political leaders representing
numerous political groups including Sunnis went to Sadr City to
protest the siege by the US military. Why is al Sadr under seige? He
called for a halt to bloodshed between Iraqis, for a =93liberation of
ourselves and our lands from the occupier,=94 for =93a real government and
real sovereignty.=94 However, for the Bush Regime, rhetoric about
=93freedom and democracy=94 is but a mask behind which to impose a US
puppet government. Real Iraqi leaders like al Sadr are =93terrorists=94
who must be eliminated.
Why do the American people and =93their=94 representatives in Congress
continue to tolerate a criminal Bush Regime that uses lies and
propaganda to mask its acts of ****d aggression, war crimes under the
Nuremberg standard?
Why does the rest of the world continue to receive political
representatives from a war criminal government?
What if the rest of the world told the US to close its bases, its
embassies, its CIA operations and to go home?
Self-righteous Americans would regard such demands as effrontery! We
own the world.
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the
Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street
Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He
is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at:
PaulCraigRoberts @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
yahoo.com
Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19839.htm
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'Israel preparing to bomb Iran N-sites'
PressTV, Iran,
29 April, 2008.
The commander of the Israeli Air Force says the regime's decision
makers have been preparing plans to take out Iran's nuclear
facilities.
General Eliezer Shkedi, who also heads the Israeli task force on Iran,
made the remarks in an interview with "60 Minutes" on Sunday.
A large ****tion of Shkedi's service has been dedicated to the
preparation for a possible mission that was never discussed in public;
an Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, should international
economic sanctions fail, Israeli daily Ha'aretz re****ted on Monday.
Shkedi spoke of a mission in 1981, when Israeli war planes attacked a
nuclear reactor in Iraq.
He went on to say that today the Israeli decision makers are faced
with a similar choice about Iran's nuclear program.
Israeli and US officials accuse Iran of seeking nuclear bombs.
Iran, a member of the IAEA and a signatory to the Nuclear Non-
Proliferation Treaty (NPT), maintains that its nuclear activates are
solely aimed at peaceful purposes.
Tehran has warned Tel Aviv of a cru****ng response, in case the regime
launches an attack on the Islamic Republic.
Source: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=3D53558§ionid=3D351020104
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=91Is War With Iran Imminent?=92 - Justin Raimondo
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=3D12755
'Joint Chiefs Chairman Says U.S. Preparing Military Options Against
Iran'
http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/25/AR2008042501=
480_pf.html
See Also:
'Was April 20th The Original Date Of The Planned U.S. 'Air Strike' On
Iran?' http://www.mimico-by-the-lake.com/IRANPLAN.HTM
'Is A U.S./Israeli Air Strike On Iran Drawing Steadily Closer?' (News
Updates) http://www.mimico-by-the-lake.com/IRANWAR.HTM
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