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Essential Reading:
Background To U.S.- Iran Dispute
Comment by Larry Ross, July 27, 2006
For a more comprehensive understanding of U.S. policy on Iran,
and Iran's offers of concessions to meet U.S. concerns, the
following May 27 article is essential reading.
My conclusions after reading it:
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The Neoconservatives
in the Bush Administration rejected Iran's attempts and
offers because they wanted a state of tension and eventually
war to exist between the U.S. and Iran.
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That is because
of neocon objectives to dominate mideast oil and defeat
any opposition, and create a state of endless war. from
which the U.S. will come to dominate the world, as stated
in their plans before Bush was installed as U.S. President
in 2000.
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The U.S. will
use the nuclear arsenals of the U.S., Israel and probably
other allies such as UK, to achieve this goal. They are
willing to gamble the lives of the world's population that
a world-destroying nuclear war will not eventuate.
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Their "War
on Terror" is their propaganda vehicle to deceive the
American people and others, and justify the various wars
they will have to fight to achieve their military goals.
The American mass media, and that in many other allied countries
such as New Zealand, is Bush &Co's strong right arm
in getting the right propaganda messages and lies to the
public and governments so that enough people and governments
support, or at least go along with, the various justifications
and steps which Bush & Co take toward their goals.
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One motivating
factor is greed leading to ever increasing wealth. There
are huge profits to be made by the arms industry, and all
those associated with it, for every war Bush and Co can
start. There are even larger potential profits once they
control and harness the oil resources of Iraq, Iran and
other middle eastern states. This may help explain the complicity
and paralysis of the U.S. Democratic opposition.
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Thanks to powerful
U.S. Neoconservatives in Bush's Cabinet, with their legendary
loyalty to Israel and it's military objectives, the U.S.
has become almost an appendage of Israel. They support and
finance every Israel objective and assault, such as Israel's
destruction of Lebanon and the coming war against Iran.
They have made Israel's extreme objectives into America's
foreign and military policy objectives.
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Having piled
one war crime onto another with much more to come, with
all branches of the American government now harnessed to
this vast criminal enterprise what we now have is a giant
military juggernaut dedicated to achieving the Neoconservative
Bush Administration goals. I don't think that there is any
crime too great or too foul, that would not be committed
by Bush & Co, or Israel, in pursuit of their goals.
Many have come to fanatically believe their own lies and
justifications as most criminals do.
It's time, perhaps it's too late, for people to wake up, examine
the evidence and dedicate themselves to political activity that
will expose the truth about U.S. policies and Israel, and unseat
both governments.
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Iran, Israel And Nuclear
Weapons
Ethan Heitner, May 26, 2006
I was just about to start a quick blog advising our readers to examine
several recent pieces by Gareth Porter, a historian and journalist for
the Inter Press Service, on the history of our diplomatic relations
with Iran in the past five years. His articles are critical to understanding
the current debacle, revealing the way Bush has continually rebuffed
efforts to solve differences diplomatically.
Then he went and wrote a
superb article for American Prospect that ties it all together
in one neat package.
The story Porter tells is
surprising and absolutely essential reading. I'll excerpt now only the
broad outlines of the plot, but you really need to read the entire thing.
Iran experts at the State
Department had been working throughout 2001 on increasing relations
with Mohammed Khatami's Iran. Post 9/11, they immediately realized the
strategic value of working with Iran against a common enemy?al-Qaida.
Continue....
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