Read this and make your blood run cold with horror. Then think what is the real purpose of the torture policies of the Bush regime? It certainly isn't to extract accurate information from the victims. Various reports show that torture does not produce useable and reliable information.
I think the purpose of these widespread U.S. torture techniques is to create fear among the general world population and send a message and warning  to other governments. We know that Bush & Co cheated and tampered with the electronic voting machines to get elected in 2,000 and 2004.

Devastating Council of Europe report on CIA involvement with kidnapping and torture

Laura S. Washington, In These Times
An unnerving new book takes a close look at America's long, dark history of imperialism.

The Bush administration's jihad against newspapers that reported on a secret program to monitor the personal banking records of unsuspecting citizens is more important than the original story. For what the president and his spokesmen are once again asserting is that the prosecution of this ill-defined, open-ended "war on terror" inevitably trumps basic democratic rights in general and the constitutionally enshrined freedom of the press in particular.
The stakes are very high here. We've already been told that we must put up with official lies about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the unprecedented torture of prisoners of war and a massive electronic-eavesdropping program and other invasions of privacy. Now the target is more basic -- the freedom of the press to report on such nefarious government activities. The argument in defense of this assault on freedom is the familiar refrain of dictators, wannabe and real, who grasp for power at the expense of democracy: We are in a war with an enemy so powerful and devious that we cannot afford the safeguard of transparent and accountable governance.    The reporting of the truth is now to be made illegal !!!

Paul Craig Roberts has excellent credentials for warning us about the evil intentions of the Bush Administration. A Google search showed 14,200,000 entries under "Paul Craig Roberts". He is a prolific and well-known U.S. journalist whose warnings cannot be dismissed as "IMPROBABLE", "UNLIKELY" "CRAZY" "THEY WOULD NEVER DO THAT" etc.
.... Education is vital on these issues as the mass media has so far suppressed the most important facts. Often I think the media is trying to keep New Zealanders in a cocoon of ignorance about what is really happening, and why, in the wider world.

...Bolton told the Financial Times (June 9) that the Bush Regime has no intention of reaching an agreement with Iran. Time is running out for diplomacy,...
There is no evidence that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. Every physicist knows that the enrichment requirement for weapons is many times greater than for nuclear energy and that Iran can barely achieve the latter. Despite the facts, Bolton told the Financial Times: "They've [Iran] got both feet on the accelerator, which is why we have a sense of urgency. Each day that goes by gives Iran more time to continue to perfect its efforts for mass production."

U.S. Smokescreen Is To Prepare Justifications To Attack Iran

As analysed by Mathew Rothschild, the U.S. has mobilized European allies to create a diplomatic smokescreen and rationale for justification to attack Iran, just as the U.S. did to justify attacking Iraq in 2003.

We've seen this play before, haven't we?
You know, the one where the Bush Administration pretends to be interested in a diplomatic solution but is really trying to get its ducks in a row for going to war?
This is the very same ruse that the Administration wheeled out in the months leading up to the Iraq War, and some of the language is identical.
Bush said many times that Saddam Hussein faced a clear choice: to back down or face the consequences.
Condoleezza Rice, in appearing to offer an opening for negotiations with Iran, said the same thing at her May 31 press conference. “The Iranian government's choices are clear,” she said. And if it makes the wrong choice, “it will incur only great costs.” Thus does the Bush Administration put the onus on those it intends to attack.

... 'What is the price that a society pays when it runs a military occupation?'
'It's an unbearable price. The list begins with moral corruption. When we don't let pregnant women through checkpoints, and their babies die, we have reduced ourselves to animals and we are no different from the suicide bombers.'

There is a growing library of well-researched books which explore the details of the 9/11 attack and U.S. government involvement. Also, the accelerating pace of converting U.S. Democracy into a police state using the "war on terror" as a cover and justification. Here are a few short reviews of some of these books.

Ahmed's first book on 9/11, The War on Freedom, was acclaimed around the world for its meticulous compilation of facts about the event. Published just a little over a half year after the attacks, it was the first book to document the inconsistencies and contradictions in the government's official version of what happened. This new book, The War on Truth, was originally intended to be an update of that text, but the amount of new material available warranted an entirely new volume. Though this book retains the analysis and information of the earlier book, it doubles the data and adds extensive new material, including an analysis of the 9/11 Commission Report and wider discussion of US policies toward al-Qaeda. For anyone who remains uneasy about the alignment of reported facts and official narrative, Ahmed's new book is an invaluable resource.
The War On Truth: 9/11, Disinformation And The Anatomy Of Terrorism by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
also:
The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11 by David Ray Griffin
Behind the War on Terror : Western Secret Strategy and the Struggle for Iraq by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
Inside Job: Unmasking the 9/11 Conspiracies by Jim Marrs
9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA by Webster Griffin Tarpley

... It is a very big pill...too big a pill... to swallow...that a criminal conspiracy controls the world's most powerful nation and could initiate a nuclear war anytime. In fact that may happen in any case, if the plans of the Bush Administration are implemented. Holland even makes a desperate attempt to end investigation and debate of the issue by writing "..there will be no further serious investigation into the events of 9/11" Really? Has the almighty spoken?

According to a recent Zogby poll, less than half of all Americans agree that "the 9/11 attacks were thoroughly investigated and that any speculation about U.S. government involvement is nonsense."
You could almost hear a wail of frustration rising up from the gatekeepers of acceptable discourse.
Just after the Zogby poll was released, William Arkin, the Washington Post's normally circumspect military affairs columnist, had a fit of apoplexy over some e-mail from 9/11 skeptics. "National security is men's work," he wrote -- absurdly bringing gender politics into a debate that's already quite muddled -- and conspiracy theorists are, presumably, not real men, but "predatory and devious, seekers of polarization and not light, abusive of the political system [and] contemptuous of anything that even resembles the 'truth.'"

Famous independent journalists tell us how our mass media make wars possible.
John Pilger said: "journalists have played a critical role in sustaining wars. Starting them and sustaining them" and that "there's almost an obsession, on controlling what journalists have to say...what we're getting is a massive censorship by omission"...The war in Vietnam .."was an invasion...huge numbers of civilians were killed. And in effect it was a war against civilians and that was never told and that's exactly true of Iraq."

Normalizing the Unthinkable

John Pilger, Robert Fisk, Charlie Glass, and Seymour Hersh on the failure of the world's press
The late journalist Edward R. Murrow might well have been rolling in his grave on April 21. That's because Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave a lecture that day in Washington, DC to journalists at the Department of State's official Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists.

As well as the Haditha dead victims of U.S. 'Democracy' some 250,000 innocent men, women and children in Iraq have experienced the direct fruits of U.S. democracy from the barrels of U.S. guns, the U.S. bombs dropped on them, and the destruction of their homes.. This is the 'democracy-in-action' that Bush is determined to continue at any cost, as his West Point speech indicates.

As details of the atrocities in Haditha continue to surface in the media, it is clear that George Bush is either completely divorced from reality or simply incapable of grasping the catastrophe he has created. In fact, he is as culpable in the deaths of the “24 unarmed Iraqis” as if he had put the gun to their heads' and shot them one by one.

Dahr Jamail shows that the U.S. Marines slaughter in Haditha is part of the systematic U.S. direct and indirect slaughter of up to 250,000 civilian men, women and children all over Iraq. As with the tortures at Abu Ghraib, there will be a few low-ranking soldiers convicted and people will be conditioned to think the culprits have been punished.
But the architects of this war, and many similar but unreported Hadithas, and wars to follow, will escape scot-free. Bush & Co by their barbaric tortures and slaughter are creating a seed-bed and training ground for terrorism where none existed before.
All 'Coalition of the Willing' allies, including Tony Blair and John Howard, are tarred with this brush.
The effects and consequences of their foul deeds will seep into their own societies.

Countless My Lai Massacres in Iraq

"On Saturday, May 13th, 2006, at 10:00 p.m., US Forces accompanied by the Iraqi National Guard attacked the houses of Iraqi people in the Al-Latifya district south of Baghdad by an intensive helicopter shelling. This led the families to flee to the Al-Mazar and water canals to protect themselves from the fierce shelling. Then seven helicopters landed to pursue the families who fled … and killed them.   The number of victims amounted to more than 25 martyrs. US forces detained another six persons including two women named Israa Ahmed Hasan and Widad Ahmed Hasan, and a child named Huda Hitham Mohammed Hasan, whose father was killed during the shelling."

Will the American public see the looming abyss before it's too late

George Orwell, Novelist or Prophet?

GEORGE Orwell wrote his book, 1984, in the 1940's. The year, 1984, was a long way off then, but what he foresaw as a possibility seemed much closer. We approached it during the McCarthy years in the fifties, but sanity reasserted itself.
When Nixon came to power, it looked like Orwell's fears might come to pass, but Nixon and his cronies overreached themselves and we were saved again. Reagan and Bush I came fairly close also. They refined a lot of the techniques, but the time was not right. It is beginning to look like the Regime of Bush II might turn Orwell from a novelist into a prophet.

The terrible cost in murdered, tortured, raped, imprisoned and wounded children in Iraq adds to the  multiplying war crimes of Bush, Blair and Howard in their illegal and deceitful invasion, continuing slaughter and occupation of Iraq.  And the war criminals are so terribly proud of the murderous mayhem they have created for no legitimate reason. Endlessly they pat each other on the back for the great job they are doing in bringing 'democracy and freedom' to the poor oppressed Iraqis, while they joyfully slaughter the innocents.

Easily Dispensable: Iraq's Children

Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society. - Joan Ganz Cooney
If, as I would like to believe, the above quote suggests all children and not merely those born in Western democracies, I am no longer certain that we live in a civilized society.
That women and children suffer the most during times of war is not a new phenomenon. It is a reality as old as war itself. What Rumsfeld, Rice and other war criminals of the Cheney administration prefer to call "collateral damage" translates in English as the inexcusable murder of and other irreparable harm done to women, children and the elderly during any military offensive.

Professor Andrew Bacevich, graduate of WestPoint and the Vietnam war is Director of the Center for International Relations at Boston University. He shows how America has spread it's control around the world with "hundred and hundreds of military bases, large and small" and that today "...planning, preparing, and waging war has become the normal state and seemingly permanent condition of the United States" 
America needs enemies to feed its "military/industrial complex" which has become a threat to the continuation of the United States as Americans know and love it. President Dwight Eisenhower warned Americans about this as he left  office in 1960.

We are now in an America where it's a commonplace for our President, wearing a "jacket with ARMY printed over his heart and 'Commander in Chief' printed on his right front," to address vast assemblages of American troops on the virtues of bringing democracy to foreign lands at the point of a missile. As Jim VandeHei of the Washington Post puts it: "Increasingly, the president uses speeches to troops to praise American ideals and send a signal to other nations the administration is targeting for democratic change."

The so-called "war on terrorism" is actually a war on the Iraq people and the destruction of their country. From the beginning of the war in 2003. the U.S. reasons to justify this war were known to be lies. There were no WMD, no nuclear weapons programme, no links to al-Qaeda and Osama bin laden, and  no Iraq plans to attack the U.S. or U.K. From the beginning, the war was the most colossal fraud any American administration has every foisted on their own people. After destroying most of the Iraqi infrastructure, the Bush Administration made a big show about rebuilding Iraq and restoring all facilities including, electricity, sewage, bridges, hospitals, water etc. Many billions of dollars from the U.S. Treasury were made available for this work. In fact it was never effectively done. Most of the money was siphoned off by corruption, no-bid, cost-plus contracts, shoddy and incomplete work and so on.

After five months of confusion, bickering, dickering, dithering, and strong-arm tactics from Zalmay Khalilzad, our ambassador to Iraq and various high American officials arriving on the fly, Prime Minister-designate Nouri al-Maliki has reportedly chosen his cabinet and a government will evidently be established in Baghdad's Green Zone. At the moment, its reach seems unlikely to extend much beyond the American-protected berms and fortifications of that citadel-mini-state. In the meantime, what governmental authority still existed in Iraq seems to be rapidly on the wane -- and not just in largely Sunni areas of the country either. (In parts of Sunni al-Anbar province, however, according to Mathieu Guidère and Peter Harling of Le Monde Diplomatique, control seems to be passing into other "governing" hands: "A formal procedure is in place for lorry drivers to pay an insurance fee [to insurgent groups] that allows them to cross the governorate, as long as they are not supplying the enemy.")

Paul Craig Roberts has excellent credentials to warn about "the Bush regime's illegal and unconstitutional exercise of power". It is so true that "The neo conservative Bush regime has adroitly used 9/11 to create fear of terrorism among Americans that blinds Americans to the Bush regime's assault on our constitutional system" It is a "must read" article and Paul Craig Roberts is one of the best most accurate writers on this and related subjects.

The neoconservative Bush regime has adroitly used 9/11 to create fear of terrorism among Americans that blinds Americans to the Bush regime's assault on our constitutional system. Americans have meekly acquiesced to the Bush regime's brutal assaults on civil liberties, human rights, the separation of powers, and statutory law, because Americans have been brainwashed to believe that the "war on terror" takes precedence and cannot be waged under the rules established by the Founding Fathers.
By elevating its "war on terror" above the US Constitution, the neoconservative Bush regime has made itself a far greater threat to Americans than are foreign terrorists. Two constitutional scholars, Timothy Lynch and Gene Healy, document the Bush regime's forceful assault on the US Constitution in "Power Surge: The Constitutional Record of George W. Bush" released May 3 by the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C.

....A future historian, if there is one, will find it astonishing that a so-called intelligent and sophisticated culture, pandered to every whim of this moronic and mentally disturbed man.
They even go to war for him and are now preparing to turn the planet into a nuclear inferno for a person who liked to blow up frogs with fire crackers when he was a boy. It's a crazy situation.....

The book: BUSH ON THE COUCH

Is our president psychologically fit to run the country? The answer to that is no, says Dr. Justin Frank, a Washington-based psychoanalyst and professor of psychiatry. He says he wrote his book after becoming alarmed about various character traits he noticed in President Bush.    Listen to an interview with Justin Frank - very conservative but still VERY scary.

George W. Bush's Disorderly Conduct

"Frequent temper tantrums, Excessive arguing with adults, Active defiance and refusal to comply with adult requests and rules, Deliberate attempts to annoy or upset people, Blaming others for his or her mistakes or misbehavior, Often being touchy or easily annoyed by others, Frequent anger and resentment, Mean and hateful talking when upset and Seeking revenge."

Dahr Jamail's article is real news about the American genocide in Iraq. It may shock and horrify you. You may wonder what Bush and his neocons hope to achieve by their systematic, murder, torture, and imprisonments of  innocent Iraqis. This horrifying mass murder is sold by Bush's, Tony Blair's and John Howard's propaganda machines, including the mass media in the U.S., U.K. and Australia as "bringing democracy to the middle east" and that the only opponents are "terrorists etc" The media will never mention the horrific reality revealed by this fearless, on-the-spot reporter.
Would you like to help stop these outrages? There really is no end to what a seriously concerned person can do.

    "Dear Mr. Dahr, I am wondering why? Americans and coalition forces were supported by pro-Iranian Militias, like the Badr Organization! The support and help of Iraqi Shiites at first helped to somewhat stabilize and maintain the occupation. Death squads trained by the coalition forces are working day and night under cover of the Ministry of Interior, attacking innocent people: both Sunnis and Shiites!!!! In spite of knowing very well who is doing what, we still see no improvement in the security situation. On the contrary, the situation is getting worse.

Dahr Jamail's article is real news about the American genocide in Iraq. It may shock and horrify you. You may wonder what Bush and his neocons hope to achieve by their systematic, murder, torture, and imprisonments of  innocent Iraqis. This horrifying mass murder is sold by Bush's, Tony Blair's and John Howard's propaganda machines, including the mass media in the U.S., U.K. and Australia as "bringing democracy to the middle east" and that the only opponents are "terrorists etc" The media will never mention the horrific reality revealed by this fearless, on-the-spot reporter.
Would you like to help stop these outrages? There really is no end to what a seriously concerned person can do.

    "Dear Mr. Dahr, I am wondering why? Americans and coalition forces were supported by pro-Iranian Militias, like the Badr Organization! The support and help of Iraqi Shiites at first helped to somewhat stabilize and maintain the occupation. Death squads trained by the coalition forces are working day and night under cover of the Ministry of Interior, attacking innocent people: both Sunnis and Shiites!!!! In spite of knowing very well who is doing what, we still see no improvement in the security situation. On the contrary, the situation is getting worse.

The mental hospitals have many patients who believe they are in direct contact with God - that God is telling them things and instructing them to take certain actions. When they act out these heavenly delusions and take the action that they think God has instructed them to take, often it involves violence against others. The law then sees these people as a danger to themselves, family and community and has them placed in a hospital for treatment.
When a world leader like George Bush has such delusions, that involve attacking other states without any provocation or excuse, the world is seriously threatened. When the leaders' delusion is physically expressed as invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq and perhaps Iran to come, the delusions are widely believed to be based on facts, and therefore justified.

LONDON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush allegedly said God told him to invade Iraq and Afghanistan , a new BBC documentary will reveal, according to details released here.
Bush made the claim when he met Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas and then foreign minister Nabil Shaath in June 2003, the ministers told the documentary series to be broadcast in Britain later this month.
The US leader also told them he had been ordered by God to create a Palestinian state, the ministers said Friday.
Shaath, now the Palestinian information minister, said: " President Bush said to all of us: 'I'm driven with a mission from God.

Many insiders believe the 9/11 attack was a U.S. covert action to rally public support for the Iraq war. Now they think a new 9/11 will be staged by the Bush Administration to boost Bush's flagging popularity, help win the November/06 elections for Bush supporters, suppress dissent, and gain public support for a war on Iran - probably using nuclear weapons. The following article shows how real American patriots are putting themselves on the line by exposing the treacheries and crimes of the Bush Administration. This shocking and overwhelming reality should become known by many more people if we are to help prevent  terrible catastrophes.

It Costs Nothing to be a Patriot

Amount of credible state terror whistleblowers reflects unbelievable enlightenment progress since 9/11
The past year has witnessed a groundswell of support for controversial truths from credible individuals across the political spectrum.
We tread on fertile ground and the climate has never been more welcoming of what would otherwise be considered difficult realities.
In the face of despair born of a world in constant swirling turmoil, we need to regularly remind ourselves of the fact that many hands make light work and slowly but surely we are gaining momentum and having an increasingly indelible effect.

Paul Craig Roberts is an insider with many contacts in government. He served as former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under the Reagan Administration and as associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He writes extensively on the Bush Administration. The writings of this man cannot be dismissed as the ravings of a  lunatic.

May stage terror attacks
Former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal and former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury Dr. Paul Craig Roberts expressed his dire warning that the US government has fallen into the hands of psychopaths and that the Neo-Cons in the Bush administration may be set to stage another terror attack in the US as part of a black operation to demolish growing dissent and coerce the public to rally behind the government once again.

Scott Ritter gives a detailed account of U.S. preparations and plans to strike at Iran before June/05. Obviously this has been postponed for unknown reasons. As Iran will retaliate against U.S. attack, the situation could very easily escalate and involve China and Russia. A sudden global nuclear exchange could result. It's so obvious, why is Europe so compliant and people so passive and silent in the face of global nuclear disaster which would kill and maim billions?

Late last year, in the aftermath of the 2004 Presidential election, I was contacted by someone close to the Bush administration about the situation in Iraq.
There was a growing concern inside the Bush administration, this source said, about the direction the occupation was going.

Google is a great resource to get the details on U.S. war plans, objectives and methods of making war on other nations. Also, it has many articles on U.S. excuses and justifications for each war. The fact that the Bush Administration engages in an almost continuous flow of lies and false justifications, does not stop the mass media from parroting each and every lie as if it is true. The mass media usually does not publish doubts and exposure of these lies or the real purposes of the Bush Administration. If anything it runs editorials justifying the lies as if the lies are really true. Then it does not print letters exposing these lies.
Search on Google - Results 1 - 10 of about 134,000,000 for Iran War . (0.08 seconds)

Israel Influences US but not in US Interests

Robert Fisk explores the potentially disastrous influence of Israel on US policies toward the middle east.
Israel wanted a hard line toward Palestine and Hamas, and a soft line toward expanding Israeli settlements on stolen Palestine territory, on Israeli military action, on Israel's ignoring of UN resolutions and building a huge wall that effectively stole Palestine land.

When two of America's most distinguished academics dared to suggest that US foreign policy was being driven by a powerful 'Israel Lobby' whose influence was incompatible with their nation's own interests, they knew they would face allegations of anti-Semitism. But the episode has prompted America's Jewish liberals to confront their own complacency. Might the tide be turning?

Chris Floyd has written a very powerful, well-documented 2 page article on the hell that Bush and his cohorts intend to unleash on Iran and the number of people he decides must die - 1,000,000. How many more will be wounded, maimed, blinded, burned, radiated, slowly dieing of their untreated wounds.
The madmen have been ruling America since 2,000. Iraq showed what they could do - they started a war based on lies. Not only did they get away with it, the Bushcons cheated their way into power again in 2004. Now they are ready, and with a few words and decisions, can inflict mass genocide in Iran. Bush has the power to destroy the world many times over. It's very possible this will happen if the nuclear slaughter in Iran triggers an expanding holocaust.

Twelve hours. One circuit of the sun from horizon to horizon, one course of the moon from dusk to dawn. What was once a natural measurement for the daily round of human life is now a doom-laden interval between the voicing of an autocrat's brutal whim and the infliction of mass annihilation halfway around the world.

" Obviously the FBI did not want to know. Why?

n an Alexandria, Virginia, courtroom, Zacarias Moussaoui and the federal government are acting out for the nation and the world a small drama about revenge.  It is hardly clear who will savor revenge more: the defendant who seems likely to be strapped to the executioner's gurney soon, or the state that injects the lethal combination of fluids.
What is beyond doubt, however, is that the most important issues raised by a prosecution like Moussaoui's are largely going unnoticed by the press and unheeded by the public—lessons about the risks of tomorrow rather than the sins of yesterday.  Has the government learned from its pre-9/11 mistakes?  Are its investigative and prosecutorial powers being well-deployed, or wasted in wild goose chases?  The half-formed answers evident from the Virginia proceeding are far from comforting.

This article shows how much the popularity of Bush and his Administration has dropped and how it has alienated the American population. Numerous factors cause this - Bush's very poor domestic performance, his spying on Americans, his arrogance, poor judgement, his dictatorial attitude, and more than anything else, his illegal war on Iraq. Obviously most Americans would disapprove of his war plans for Iran, especially if he nuclear bombs Iran. He and his advisors know this very, very well. Yet they are still  preparing to launch another illegal war on a much bigger and better prepared target - Iran, when their military resources are overstretched. Another crazy neocon mystery? I don't think so.

You can count on one thing. All over Washington, Republicans are at least as capable as I am of watching and interpreting the polling version of the smash-up of the Bush administration. With each new poll, the numbers creep lower yet. Presidential approval in the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll dropped another 3% in the last month and now sits at 38%, while disapproval of the President continues to strengthen -- 47% of Americans now "strongly disapprove" of the President's handling of the presidency, only 20% "strongly approve." (62%, by the way, disapprove of the President's handling of the war in Iraq.)

Chalmers Johnson is a WWII US Navy vet and a historian of American militarism, ran the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California. He had a long career as a Japan specialist. His two-part article for Tomdispatch is a very valuable insight into what has happened to America and the enormous magnitude of the problems facing it today.

In Part 1 of his interview, Chalmers Johnson suggested what that fall-of-the-Berlin-Wall, end-of-the-Cold-War moment meant to him; explored how deeply empire and militarism have entered the American bloodstream; and began to consider what it means to live in an unacknowledged state of military Keynesianism, garrisoning the planet, and with an imperial budget -- a real yearly Pentagon budget -- of perhaps three-quarters of a trillion dollars. Tom

Washington's political timetable may turn harsh rhetoric into military escalation, unless voices of restraint in both the United States and Iran can prevail.
Seymour Hersh's recent New Yorker article on the risk of war between the United States and Iran contained many insights into the current thinking of US political and military leaders. The one that has attracted most attention was the desire of figures on the political side to keep the "nuclear option" on the table, even in the face of reported opposition from some military planners (see "The Iran plans", New Yorker, 17 April 2006).     more from Paul Rogers

.... Nuclear weapons are believed by the public to be unthinkable except as a last resort, because the use of them would probably escalate out of control and become a global holocaust.

The world avoided nuclear catastrophe during the cold war, but the era's real history has an ominous lesson for the period of "war on terror".

Top U.S. physicists say " U.S. plans to reportedly use nuclear weapons against Iran were "gravely irresponsible" and warning that such action would have "disastrous consequence for the security of the United States and the world". Last fall 1,800 U.S. physicists repudiated new U.S. nuclear policies that include pre-emptive use of nuclear weapons against others. They said the Hiroshima bomb killed 100,000 people. Today the world's nuclear arsenals have 200,000 times the explosive force of the Hiroshima bomb - enough to kill the world's entire population many times over.

Call Nuclear Weapons Against Iran ‘Gravely Irresponsible’ Thirteen of the nation’s most prominent physicists have written a letter to President Bush, calling U.S. plans to reportedly use nuclear weapons against Iran “gravely irresponsible” and warning that such action would have “disastrous consequences for the security of the United States and the world.”

This article shows that people are being conditioned to accept the potential use of nuclear weapons and to trust President Bush to make the right decisions in this regard, and that there is nothing immoral or peculiar about this, or any use of nuclear weapons that the President decides is right, and that it is permissible and just, to use them. The possibility that huge numbers of Iran men, women and children might be killed and maimed and that the U.S. has no right or reason to commit such crimes, and that events could spiral into global nuclear war, are not questions that were considered by the article.

Bush won't rule out nuclear strike on Iran

President Bush refused on Tuesday to rule out nuclear strikes against Iran if diplomacy fails to curb the Islamic Republic's atomic ambitions.
Iran, which says its nuclear program is purely peaceful, told world powers it would pursue atomic technology, whatever they decide at a meeting in Moscow later in the day.

It's a never-ending mystery why so many Americans allowed themselves to be conned into supporting this barbarous war.
A deeper mystery is why they continued to support the war even after they learned that Bush and his associates had told a series of lies to get their support.
Having his lies and excuses exposed about the reasons for war, did not result in Bush withdrawing from this illegal war and paying reparations to the Iraqis. Indeed, as the situation worsens, Bush steps up his assault and prepares to make war on Iran.

Of all the war crimes that have flowed from the originating crime of President George W. Bush's unprovoked invasion of Iraq, perhaps the most flagrant was the destruction of Fallujah in November 2004. Now, as ignominious defeat looms for Bush's Babylonian folly, some of the key players in fomenting the war are urging that the "Fallujah Option" be applied to an even bigger target: Baghdad.
What these influential warmongers openly call for is the "pacification" of Baghdad: a brutal firestorm by U.S. forces, ravaging both Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias in a "horrific" operation that will inevitably lead to "skyrocketing body counts," as warhawk Reuel Marc Gerecht cheerfully wrote last week in the ever-bloodthirsty editorial pages of The Wall Street Journal.

More nuclear weapons and more manufacturing facilities. Combine that with the new nuclear weapons doctrines of pre-emptive nuclear war and using these weapons as an optional part of conventional warfare. There is also the 2002, U.S. Nuclear Posture Review, in which 7 or 8 countries including China and Russia, were named as potential enemies requiring the use of U.S. nuclear weapons. Almost any nation can become a U.S. target, especially oil producing nations like Iraq and Iran.

The Bush administration Wednesday unveiled a blueprint for rebuilding the nation's decrepit nuclear weapons complex, including restoration of a large-scale bomb manufacturing capacity.
The plan calls for the most sweeping realignment and modernization of the nation's massive system of laboratories and factories for nuclear bombs since the end of the Cold War.

This article shows how widely the US as well as Al-Qaeda and other groups have used suicide bombings to further their goals. This has resulted in large numbers of 'terrorists' trained in the latest techniques by the CIA, who later turn their destructive skills against US and related institutions. This is called "blow back".
As the weapons and explosives become more lethal, and the number of terrorists increases due to US military actions,
the amount of violence will escalate. That in turn will have long term effects on nations, governments, military thinking and the arms race. As the US pursues it's strategy of military conquest and gratuitous violence and perhaps launches new wars against Iran and others, they will also be creating much new opposition, which they will call terrorists.

A History of the Car Bomb (Part 2)
....The CIA's own operatives, however, proved incapable of arrying out the bombing, so Casey subcontracted the operation to Lebanese agents led by a former British SAS officer and financed by Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar.

Top journalist, John Pilger, shows how Blair and his aides are taking Britain toward fascism and Orwell's "1984" using the umbrella threat of terrorism as their cover and rationale.
However Blair and Bush are creating far more terrorists by their very brutal, illegal. war on Iraq. Yet he gets away with draconian new laws based on his deceit and war crimes. It's amazing and disheartening that Britons so easily succumb to Blair's lies and fascist steps. The cost and the consequences of their ignorance and passivity may become very high indeed.

The bill marks the end of true parliamentary democracy; it is as significant as Congress abandoning the Bill of Rights
People ask: can this be happening in Britain? Surely not. A centuries-old democratic constitution cannot be swept away. Basic human rights cannot be made abstract. Those who once comforted themselves that a Labour government would never commit such an epic crime in Iraq might now abandon a last delusion, that their freedom is inviolable. If they knew.

This article reinforces John Pilger's article "Freedom Dies Quietly" on 13/4/05
Fascism is being introduced in England and slyly undermining Democracy. The people don't know or care.
This would help insure that the truth about Blair's illegal war on Iraq continues to be suppressed. It also lowers the likelihood of any criminal prosecution of the Blair Administration for war crimes.

From forcing through ID cards to the erosion of parliamentary scrutiny, a determined clique is hijacking our democracy
....Piece by piece, month by month, Tony Blair's administration is removing the safeguards that protect all of us from the whims of a government and the intrusions of a powerful state. It is engaged in a ferocious power-grab. Yet this story has not seized the imagination of the media or the public. In our failure to respond, the government must be reading a tacit acceptance that it can do what it chooses, because we either don't notice or don't care.

War, Geopolitics and History - Conflict in the Middle East
In a brilliant and convincing lecture, Rev Ray Griffin exposes why the 9/11 and Twin Towers attacks must have been part of a Bush Administration plot.
The only conceivable purpose was to terrify, propagandise, and deceive the American people into supporting Bush's illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Dr. David Ray Griffin: Guns and Butter
In this definitive presentation given on March 30th, 2006 at the historic Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, California, Griffin deconstructs nine official myths, given that day.
Recorded 03/30/06 - Broadcast 04/05/06 - Guns And Butter      "9/11, The Myth & The Reality,"

I would say 30,000, more or less, have died as a result of the initial incursion and the ongoing violence against Iraqis.
- George W. Bush, December 12, 2005, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
How many Iraqis have died as the result of the Anglo-American invasion and occupation of their country remains an unresolved question in the anti-war movement. It is a question the pro-war camp avoids. Yet what more important question is there?
The above quote made by the "compassionate conservative" shows a disturbing trend in the corporate media and amongst the spokespersons of the current powers that be, to camouflage the true cost of the illegal occupation of Iraq - the cost in blood paid by Iraqis. It is a trend that ensures that the enormity of the atrocity goes unnoticed.

The Assault on Democracy
Noam Chomsky discusses U.S. policies in Latin America, subverting elections in Haiti, and why American elections are like toothpaste ads.

THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER AND ITS PERMANENT WAR ECONOMY
Beginning with the use of nuclear energy for military purposes, mankind has entered a seemingly endless race to harness the natural forces within the planet, in the atmosphere and in space for waging war. The earth is already gravely affected by many of those secret research and testing programmes leading to unpredictable environmental and epidemiological consequences .

He believes the U.S. is preparing for a war on Iran - that it would be sudden and without warning and could happen anytime. He reminded us that most commentators before the Iraq war, believed a peaceful diplomatic solution would be found. How wrong they were.

The timing and nature of a United States attack on Iran can be gauged by a close look at air traffic and base security in western England.

The Whitehouse memo shows Bush and Blair had lots of testimony based on UN inspection that there were no WMD or a nuclear weapons in Iraq. But they decided to make war based on the lie that there were WMD in Iraq, even though that would not be a valid excuse for war in any case. Some of the other lies invented to justify the war were that Saddam had links to al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, and that Saddam was connected to the attack on 9/11, and that Saddam was a threat to the US, UK. None of this was true and Bush and Blair had no evidence for their lies.
Nevertheless both lied to their publics and governments in order to get support for their war.
Now they are planning to do it again to justify a war with Iran.

It's extremely rare, to get this kind of an insight of an extremely private, we should say secret meeting between two leaders preparing for a coming war. Tell us what you think are the main insights to be gained from the so-called White House memo?

If Professor Jorge Hirsh is right, the U.S., claiming an Iranian biological warfare threat, will attack before April 30, 2006.
This ties in with other papers warning about a U.S. - generated war on Iran starting about this time.
The decision to develop the mythology of a biological warfare threat from Iran, is because a U.S.-alleged lie that Iran is a nuclear threat had lost all credibility. It was a cunning step and more difficult to expose that the phoney nuclear threat.
People must act now to prevent this nuclear genocide against a non-nuclear state, for invented reasons.

Biological Threat and Executive Order 13292
H istory repeats itself, but always with new twists. We are back to the good old days when a Declaration of War preceded the start of a war. Such declaration occurred on March 16th, 2006. Reversing the old order, we are now in the "Sitzkrieg", to be followed shortly by an aerial "Blitzkrieg" in the coming days.

The world has gotten itself into a real jam. I mean a humdinger of a jam! As in John Paul Sartre's existential drama, No Exit, which so nicely portrays the inescapability of self-chosen evil, the inevitability of a self-made Hell, there seems to be no way out for the world; no way for the inhabitants of planet Earth to escape what appears to be the inevitability of a hell of its own making... World War III!

How can this much evidence be ignored or dismissed

Nobel Laureates and other prominent figures petitioned the U.S. Congress not to nuclear bomb Iran "regardless of whether Iran is in any way involved in an attack on the U.S." This plan is very much like the Pentagon's "Operation Northwoods" to blame and then bomb and invade Cuba in 1962, after a faked attack on the U.S. using U.S. covert action.
Petitioners were appalled at the Bush-Pentagon plan, which was justified with their Nuclear Posture Review, Dec 2001, and Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations, March 15, 2005 to "use nuclear weapons as a tool in warfare like any other".

In an August 2005 issue of The American Conservative, former CIA officer Philip Girarldi raised the alarm over in-process Pentagon contingency plans drafted in preparation for another terrorist attack in the United States. The response includes a plan for a massive air assault on Iran with the use of both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons regardless of whether Iran is any way involved in such an attack against the U.S.
One month after the publication of Giraldli's warnings, physicists from around the world, including numerous Nobel laureates and prominent figures, signed a petition expressing their dismay at seeing the architects of Bush administration policy embrace the use of nuclear weapons as a tool in warfare like any other. The new US policy to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear countries has been officially formulated in two US government documents Nuclear Posture Review delivered to Congress in December 2001 and Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations dated March 15, 2005.

.....We seem to never learn from our past mistakes. Today’s neo-cons are... idealistically misled and aggressive in remaking the Middle East..... Even given the horrendous costs of the Iraq War and the unintended consequences that plague us today, the neo-cons are eager to expand their regime-change policy to Iran by force.
The obvious shortcomings of our regime change and occupation of Afghanistan are now readily apparent. The Taliban was ousted from power, but they have regrouped and threaten the delicate stability that now exists in that country. Opium drug production is once again a major operation, with drugs lords controlling a huge area of the country outside Kabul.

There has never been a Shiite/Sunni conflict in Iraq before the U.S. invasion in 2003. If there was one thing that united Iraqis since it is desire for the U.S. invaders to leave Iraq. Nothing is more likely to prevent that and give the U.S. a justification "to stay and help our friends" than a civil war. I don't think it is Sunnis and Shiites promoting a civil war. With it's new hardened permanent military bases in Iraq, it is clear that the US intends to stay, and are looking for a justification.

As coffins of shooting victims rolled past wailing mourners, Iraq's dominant Shiite Muslim political alliance Monday condemned the United States for a weekend raid that left at least 16 people dead in a Shiite neighborhood and said it was for now dropping out of U.S.-guided talks aimed at forming a unity government.
Shiite political leaders and U.S. military commanders gave wildly contradictory accounts of the Sunday evening raid in northeast Baghdad, evidence of a growing rift between the United States and the Shiite-led government that came to power after the 2003 ouster of Saddam Hussein.

The following secret memo of Bush/Blair meetings in January 2003, published in shows Bush determined to invade Iraq, even if they failed to get a second UN resolution and UN inspectors did not find any WMD.
Bush discussed with Blair "various ways to provoke a confrontation" with Iraq to justify invasion such as:
" flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in U.N. colours...If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach" and that would give the U.S. a pretext to attack.

But behind closed doors, the president was certain that war was inevitable. During a private two-hour meeting in the Oval Office on Jan. 31, 2003, he made clear to Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain that he was determined to invade Iraq without the second resolution, or even if international arms inspectors failed to find unconventional weapons, said a confidential memo about the meeting written by Mr. Blair's top foreign policy adviser and reviewed by The New York Times.

On March 17 William Rivers Pitt wrote that Bush is "deranged, disconnected, and dangerous." In his March 20 Cleveland speech, Bush proved Pitt right.
Bush gave a delusional speech that shows he is detached from reality. "We’re going to help the Iraqis build a strong democracy that will be an inspiration throughout the Middle East, a democracy that’ll be a partner in the global war against the terrorists."
Has no one told Bush that the Iraqis cannot even agree to form a government?
The day before Bush’s delusional Cleveland speech, Iyad Allawi, the former prime minister of one of our make-believe Iraqi governments, said that in Iraq the casualty rate from the sectarian strife is so high that "if this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is."

Impeachment is the only recourse that can bring a halt to the madness in Iraq, and the insanity being planned in Iran and elsewhere.
As America reaches the third anniversary of President Bush's decision to invade and occupy Iraq, there is for the first time the unsettling realization brought about by the clarity of acts that emerges only after the passage of time that something horrible has happened.
This awakening of collective awareness on the part of the American people is reflected not only in the numerous polls which show ......read on

The new 49 page Security blueprint sounds like a formula to initiate pre-emptive war whenever and on whoever the U.S. decides - and Iran is next on their list.
The U.S. even tells Russia and China they must increase whatever the U.S. says is "freedom" and warns that the U.S. is "hedging" if they don't meet U.S. specifications.
This formula for endless war, and possibly nuclear war soon for Iran, could become a quick ending of the human race.

Making no apologies for the war in Iraq, the United States reaffirmed its strike-first policy of pre-emption and warned that Iran may pose the biggest threat to US national security.
"We may face no greater challenge from a single country than from Iran," the White House said in a 49-page blueprint called "The National Security Strategy of the United States of America."
The report drew up a balance sheet of what it called US President George W. Bush's foreign policy successes and remaining "challenges" like bloody violence in Iraq and tense standoffs over nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea.

American forces have dramatically increased airstrikes in Iraq during the past five months, a change of tactics that may foreshadow how the United States plans to battle a still-strong insurgency while reducing the number of U.S. ground troops serving here.

New Pentagon Doctrine: Mini-Nukes are "Safe for the Surrounding Civilian Population"

Will the US launch "Mini-nukes" against Iran in Retaliation for Tehran's "Non-compliance"?

The latest information I have had from the followers of Bush is that he has demanded and received permission to use nuclear “bunker busters” in Iran in a preemptive strike. As a nuclear veteran (Operation Redwing, Bikini, 1956) I can affirm that this is absolute madness. The “bunker buster” is a cute sounding name for a nuclear horror. Air bursts are horrible enough, doing incredible destruction through heat, shock and high initial radiation. The fallout from an air burst is registered around the world. A surface or subsurface burst is even deadlier and more long lasting.

There is a huge body of evidence, including photos, testimony and eye-witness accounts, that U.S. policy is to torture those they detain and imprison around the world.
Of particular interest are the words used by Bush, Cheney and others to deny the charge of torture.
Never, in the history of the United States, has an administration told such colossal lies, with such a straight face, to deny and continue, such horrendous crimes. They are very skilful actors.

The other day on Jerry Agar's radio show, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld responded to accusations about American atrocities at our prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He accused the detainees there of manipulating public opinion by lying about their treatment. He said, in part:
"They're taught to lie, they're taught to allege that they have been tortured, and that's part of the [terrorist] training that they received. We know that torture is not occurring there. We know that for a fact… The reality is that the terrorists have media committees. They are getting very clever at manipulating the media in the United States and in the capitals of the world. They know for a fact they can't win a single battle on the battlefields in the Middle East. They know the only place they can win a battle is in the capitol in Washington, D.C. by having the United States lose its will, so they consciously manipulate the media here to achieve their ends, and they're very good at it."

There are dire consequences to the current direction of the U.S. foreign policy, said Noam Chomsky in a speech Saturday at Binghamton University. Among those consequences, he said, is a nuclear Armageddon.
"Under the current U.S. policies, a nuclear exchange is inevitable," the 77-year-old MIT professor said in his presentation, "Imminent Crises: Paths Toward Solutions." He spoke to an over-capacity crowd in BU's Osterhout Concert Theater.
Chomsky cited nuclear proliferation and environmental collapse as the two greatest crises that "literally threaten survival."

Here is yet more evidence that Bush stole the 2000 and 2004 elections, knew about and was involved in the 9/11 attack that was used as an excuse to justify his illegal Iraq war. He now presides over a growing criminal empire of deception and lies that gets stronger every day. The results of his escalating crimes will be felt years into the future, unless his wars trigger off a holocaust that destroys us all first.
The media has covered up for him, and his crimes, at every turn and does everything it can to divert public attention from the truth about 9/11 and the Iraq war. The Democrats have been too beholden to the military/industrial complex to challenge Bush lies and illegal actions. Most people who participated in these crimes against their fellow Americans are too afraid to talk, deeply and profitably involved themselves, or psychopaths and neocons who believe in what they are doing.

Reports that Iran and Russia have reached an agreement on a plan for the joint enrichment of Iran's uranium in Russia have eased fears of a major international confrontation over Iran's nuclear plans. But this danger has by no means been eliminated. Without a permanent resolution of the dispute agreeable to both the United States and Iran, the prospect of an armed clash will grow increasingly severe. Such a clash might not entail full-scale war, but it could trigger an uncontrollable explosion of sectarian and religious strife throughout the Middle East. Preventing such a clash is among the most pressing tasks facing the international community today.

"Construction Minister Jassem Mohammed Jaafar said, "Holes were dug into the mausoleum’s four main pillars and packed with explosives. Then charges were connected together and linked to another charge placed just under the dome. The wires were then linked to a detonator which was triggered at a distance."
Clearly, the bombing was not carried out by rogue elements in the disparate Iraqi resistance. This is the work of highly-trained saboteurs and bomb-experts who were executing a precision-demolition to incite sectarian violence. The blast bears all the hallmarks of a covert Intelligence agency-operation."
The Smoking Gun February 26, 2006

The U.S. has used depleted uranium (D.U.) weapons in 4 wars (see below).
Britain and other members of U.S. military alliances have been complicit in D.U. usage and aware of the low-level radiation effects.
D.U. microscopic particles have been spread by air currents to Europe and Britain. It has a half life of 4,500,000,000 years, so can continue to spread over coming decades and centuries.. It can infect people with a number of fatal diseases as the following articles show, slowly killing or incapacitating many of them. It lasts forever and there is no cure.
Using such weapons is an attack on all humanity and all nations, as the particles will drift around the world forever.
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The deaths of detainees in U.S. custody have been shrouded in secrecy for years. To shine a light on the U.S. government’s handling of the nearly 100 detainee deaths since 2002, Human Rights First has been independently researching these cases.
Just last week we released an eye-opening report, titled Command’s Responsibility; Detainee Deaths in U.S. Custody in Iraq and Afghanistan, which was featured by the BBC and covered widely in the press, including The New York Times, The Associated Press, Reuters, and The Financial Times. What we found: deeply flawed investigations, command failure, and an alarming lack of accountability.       continue...

Ever since the attacks of September 11, 2001, there was enough evidence available for me to conclude that the Bush administration knew we would be attacked with airplanes in some way but they purposely did nothing to prevent the attacks in order to justify their political goals.
For example, aside from the multiple warnings the Bush administration received – as confirmed by Richard Clark, Condoleezza Rice, and Donald Rumsfeld – they were also aware that the Pentagon and FEMA had conducted exercises that involved jetliners used as missiles. There is a mountain of evidence that the president and his cabinet, as well as the intelligence community, knew that this scenario was possible.

On this very conservative campus (in the most conservative county in the most conservative state in the union), where community leaders pulled out all the stops in 2004 to prevent Michael Moore from speaking as part of his anti-Bush, pro-Kerry “Slacker Uprising Tour,” Dr. Steven Jones, this pious professor from the Mormon Church-owned Brigham Young University, calmly, gently, gave a simple physics lesson on the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings, the implications of which awed the audience with a sense of world-historical significance, and implied an indictment of the present administration so utterly devastating that it made Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 look like a Bush apologia.

This is the best and most comprehensive resource I have yet found on the 9/11 attack in 2001. From my own continuing research I think the scholars are right: that the U.S. is in the hands of a criminal conspiracy who are bent on global domination. It's such and awful big pill to swallow, that many will reject this conclusion as untenable, impossible and that those who think this way must be nuts. I don't blame them for thinking this way.
However disbelieving a person may be of this conclusion, I urge them to read some of the material on this Scholars website.
Really, I think all our lives depend on stopping the Bush Conspiracy before it takes us all past the point of no return - such as the often predicted major US 'next step' - Bush's military assault on Iran.

Guantanamo, with it’s illegal imprisonment of innocent people, torture, forced feeding, shaming, lack of trials, should be closed. For New Zealand’s own good, for Americans, and for people everywhere who believe in freedom, democracy and human rights, we should stand up to the Bush Administration, and officially protest it’s criminal policies.
It is not anti-American to bear witness to how the Bush Administration is violating the U.S. Constitution and International Law.

The issue of human rights abuses at Guantanamo Bay is still very much a live one following the release of the UN Human Rights Commission Report into the detention centre highlighting widespread torture practices. Yesterday Keith asked Foreign Minister Winston Peters during Question Time whether New Zealand would step up to the plate and call for the closure of the detention centre following the release of the report.
It is interesting that the Foreign Affairs Minister is reticent about standing up to the United States on this issue, given his recent comments about their recognition of our role in the Pacific!     Full story and feed back

I have often warned about the possible Bush Administration use of a fake attack on the U.S. to justify an attack on Iran - as the 9/1l attack in 2001 , was used to justify the Iraq war. But Iraq had no links to al-Qaeda, nothing to do with terrorism, the 9/11 attack, or bin-Laden and had no weapons of mass destruction, and no nuclear weapons program. However the very erroneous and false justifications for the Iraq war were exposed repeatedly but not by the mass media. Bush did not end the falsely justified war. The U.S. is continuing the war by increasing by 5 times, the air attacks on selected Iraq targets. The liars are winning.
So here is the Pentagon plan, revealed by an ex-CIA agent, to use the same type of attack to justify a war on Iran, even though Iran will have nothing to do with an alleged terrorist attack on the U.S.

In Washington it is hardly a secret that the same people in and around the administration who brought you Iraq are preparing to do the same for Iran.
The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States

You can always tell when the War Party wants a new war. They will invariably trot out the Argumentum ad Hitlerum.
Before the 1991 Gulf War, Saddam had become "the Hitler of Arabia," though he had only conquered a sandbox half the size of Denmark. Milosevic then became the "Hitler of the Balkans," though he had lost Slovenia, Croatia and Macedonia, was struggling to hold Bosnia and Kosovo, and had defeated no one.
Comes now the new Hitler.
"This is 1935, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is as close to Adolf Hitler as we've seen," said Newt Gingrich to a startled editor at Human Events.
"We now know who they are – the question is who are we. Are we Baldwin or Churchill?"

Heather Wokusch gives a very good analysis in her following article of how the Bush Administration is inventing a false story about Iran making nuclear weapons to threaten the U.S. and Israel. Even though the US and Israel surround Iran with thousands of nuclear weapons that could destroy Iran in a few hours, if Iran ever attacked either nation. It seems crazy that Americans would believe such drivel, but most of them are well-conditioned by a co-operative mass media to believe whatever the Bush Administration tells them. The purpose is to create a groundswell of public opinion that will support a U.S. war on Iran.

Witnessing the Bush administration's drive for an attack on Iran is like being a passenger in a car with a raving drunk at the wheel. Reports of impending doom surfaced a year ago, but now it's official: under orders from Vice President Cheney's office, the Pentagon has developed "last resort" aerial-assault plans using long-distance B2 bombers and submarine-launched ballistic missiles with both conventional and nuclear weapons.
How ironic that the Pentagon proposes using nuclear weapons on the pretext of protecting the world from nuclear weapons. Ironic also that Iran has complied with its obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, allowing inspectors to "go anywhere and see anything," yet those pushing for an attack, the USA and Israel, have not.

"To initiate a war of aggression is, therefore, not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing from other war crimes only in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."
- Judgment of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, relating to "Count Two, the Crime of Aggression," as brought against Herman Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and 14 other defendants.
In Mr. Bush's "State 0f The Union" address, he claimed that "US forces will be drawn down as Iraqi forces stand up."
[1] However, this claim is flatly contradicted by the Pentagon's ongoing multibillion-dollar expenditures for the construction of 106 permanent bases - including six hi-tech "super-bases" - inside Iraq. [2]

Leonid Ivashov, Chief of Staff of the Russian armed forces when the September 11, 2001, attacks took place, now explains that international terrorism does not exist and that the September 11 attacks were the result of a set-up. What we are seeing is a manipulation by the big powers; this terrorism would not exist without them. He affirms that, instead of faking a "world war on terror", the best way to reduce that kind of attacks is through respect for international law and peaceful cooperation among countries and their citizens.

The launching of an outright war using nuclear warheads against Iran is now in the final planning stages.
Coalition partners, which include the US, Israel and Turkey are in "an advanced stage of readiness".
Various military exercises have been conducted, starting in early 2005. In turn, the Iranian Armed Forces have also conducted large scale military maneuvers in the Persian Gulf in December in anticipation of a US sponsored attack.

The Quiet Death Of Freedom