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Danger: U.S. Madmen Threaten The World Comment by Larry Ross, April 2, 2005
He points out "that no one in the American media took it upon themselves to confront the President or his Secretary of State about the June 2005 date, or for that matter the October 2004 review by the President of military plans to attack Iran in June 2005." This is not surprising as US corporate media helped deceive the American people by repeating lies the administration invented to justify their war against Iraq. Notice that the media do not acknowledge, much less apologise for deceiving the American public. They simply claim, like Fox, that their coverage is "fair and balanced ". In fact it functions as a propaganda arm of the US government, as the German media did for Hitler in his rise to power and war making. As the war formula worked for the Bush Administration to wage illegal war on Iraq and kill 100,000 people, they may do it again for Iran, Syria or other states. The media will repeat Bush lies on Iran as it repeated his lies on Iraq. The mainly ‘embedded’ reporters wouldn’t raise questions about the US war plan and schedule beforehand. One of the neocon 'crazies', John Bolton, the architect for the planned war on Iran, is now appointed as the new US ambassador to the UN. He has a well-established enmity toward the UN and is likely to try to either destroy it, or bend it to suit US war policies. The US tried to get UN approval for their Iraq war and failed. The US may increase efforts to get UN approval for the war on Iran. Kofi Annan, who bravely stood up for UN integrity and called the Iraq war illegal, is now under attack. If Kofi Annan is forced out, the US is likely to hold out for a new UN secretary General who does what the US wants. However the war on Iran may be much larger, with far greater consequences, than the war on Iraq. Russia is Iran's nuclear technology supplier. It is more deeply involved with Iran than it was with Iraq. Russia has already taken a number of diplomatic set backs because of aggressive US policy. However another alleged ‘terrorist event’ like 9/11, may enflame and terrify the US public. Like 9/11, it might allow Bush to make war on Iran or any country he names. Iraq was named to justify war, for its WMD that did not exist, and for involvement with Al Qaeda and 9/11, which is another lie. What happens next if Russia helps defend Iran and there are American casualties? Anything can happen. A few madmen with nuclear weapons decide the agenda. People should decide whether to protest the probable June war against Iran, before it happens.
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Sleepwalking to disaster in Iran by Scott Ritter, March 3, 2005
There was a growing concern
inside the Bush administration, this source said, about the direction
the occupation was The Bush administration was keen on achieving some semblance of stability in Iraq before June 2005, I was told. When I asked why that date,
the source dropped the bombshell: because that was when the Pentagon was
told to be prepared to launch a massive aerial attack against Iran, Iraq's
neighbour to the east, in order to destroy the Why June 2005?, I asked. "The
Israelis are concerned that if the Iranians get their nuclear enrichment
programme up To be clear, the source did not say that President Bush had approved plans to bomb Iran in June 2005, as has been widely reported. The president had reviewed plans being prepared by the Pentagon to have the military capability in place by June 2005 for such an attack, if the president ordered. Full article from Aljazeera
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