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Democrats Okay Bush War with Iran

Comment by Larry Ross, March 14, 2007

The Democrats have given a green light to Bush in his preparations to make war on Iran on the grounds that Iran is, or may become in the future, a nuclear threat to Israel. Every serious observer of the Middle East situation knows that the excuses and justifications for a US-Israel war with Iran are completely phony and based on lies.

These can all be checked out on our website http://www.nuclearfree.org.nz or a Google search. They are:

1. Iran's president did not say he wanted to wipe Israel off the map.
2. Israel with its arsenal of up to 400 nuclear weapons could annihilate Iran in a few hours and has been threatening to attack Iran.
3. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reports of inspections of Iran's nuclear facilities, say that Iran has no nuclear weapons and no preparations to make them.
4. Iran has the right, under the terms of the NPT treaty, to enrich uranium for nuclear power. That does not make it a threat.  Many nations are doing this, including the nine known nuclear weapon states as well as others only using nuclear power.
5. The US has an arsenal of thousands of nuclear weapons and could wipe out Iran if it attacked any other state.
6. Given these well-known facts, why do the governments of the US and Israel express such fears of Iran and its plans to enrich uranium for fuel?
7. Even if it did decide to make nuclear weapons, the 'CIA estimates it would take them 5-10 years to do it.
8. But if it did, does that make it a legitimate nuclear target for a pre-emptive war - anymore than any of the other 8-9 nuclear weapon states? These facts establish that the US - Israeli campaign to demonise and falsely accuse Iran of being a nuclear threat are complete inventions and bogus.
9. The intention is to fool the US, Israeli and other publics and create a groundswell of support for a US or Israeli attack on Iran. There is nothing true or valid about this campaign. It is war propaganda to cover the real US-Israel plans to make war on Iran and gain control of its oil resources, as the US is doing in its phony war on Iraq. Most people know, especially top politicians of both parties in Washington, all about these plans and the lethal war games in which they are playing a part while pretending to want peace and withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.
10. It is well known that Bush's war plans include an option to use nuclear weapons and bomb up to 10,000 targets in Iran. Three US aircraft carriers have been positioned close to Iran with numerous other naval  warships, US air bases in countries surround Iran. There has been an increase in US troops in Iraq. All are ready to attack Iran. Bush could launch a sudden "pre-emptive attack under US legislation", using any pretext he invents and stages, and bomb Iran back to the stone-age in a few hours.
11. The Bush regime has a long and very well-known history of inventing lies and pretexts to make wars - first on Afghanistan, then Iraq, and now Iran. He justifies this by calling each war part of his "global war on terror" - all supposedly stemming from the 9/11, 2001 attack on the Twin Towers in New York.
12. Most informed people believe this excuse is part of the fabric of lies invented by the Bush regime to cover and justify the long-established, neo-conservative plans for US global domination, including control of the world's dwindling oil resources.  

What you are seeing below, is the Democratic acceptance and capitulation to all the lies, false accusations and war propaganda of the Bush regime.

They have given Bush a green light to do as he pleases and they will approve funds, both for the new 'surge' of US troops into Iraq and the planned war on Iran.

But do they know, care, or even give a damn about the possible consequences? These are:

1. Hundreds of thousands even millions of casualties with colossal and continuing suffering
2. Expanding wars in other middle east countries, becoming a general war against Islam
3. Lethal radiation and poisoning of the environment of Iran and other middle east countries causing death and disease into the future
4. Conversion of the US and allied countries into permanent states of war; with martial law, military conscription, conversion of economies into wartime and arms production
5. Conversion of allied Western democracies, in the U.S. and allied countries, into de-facto military dictatorships to cope with the 'new crisis war situation etc". This may mean postponement of elections; new information  controls, including banning dissent, inconvenient truths or exposures or anything that might interfere with the war effort. It will all be done to protect "our freedoms and democracies against the terrorists etc." Because war propaganda will be all-pervasive by then, and the facts will never be revealed, many people will accept the new controls as necessary to protect their democracy.

Hitler said in Mien Kemp: "The bigger the lie the more people will believe it". Unfortunately the Hitler method worked well for Bush's Iraq war. The Democrats and many in the population accept the lies and pretend they are valid and true. They refuse to question and express doubt about the lies the Bush regime told them to get their support for war. 

They refuse to admit that the Bush regime has committed grave crimes against the US Constitution, International law, The Nuremberg Judgements and the UN Charter. If they admitted that Bush had committed these serious crimes, they would have to impeach him immediately before he could carry on doing more damage and threatening the world.  They lack the courage to do that and many are far too compromised.

Because the potential consequences are so devastating for everyone, the dangers are extreme that the expanded wars will draw in some of the other nuclear weapon states. There are a total of nine including China and Russia who have strong links to Iran and depend on its oil supplies. Thus a much larger international nuclear war is not only possible, but likely. If that happens, there could be billions of casualties, and an end to civilization as we know it.

There is more than enough, nuclear, chemical, germ weapons to kill the world's population many times over. During the last 62 nuclear weapon years as the arsenals of weapons, missiles and other delivery systems have multiplied to different countries, it has almost happened during several crises such as the Cuban missile crisis. Top government nuclear strategists have said it's only a miracle that it didn't happen.

I wonder why top politicians in the US and other countries, top military people, government executives and ordinary informed citizens, don't speak out and take action before it's too late, to Impeach Bush before he starts a new war that could easily escalate and destroy our world. The only chance to do something constructive to prevent this disaster is before Bush starts it. That's now.

Once started, it's too late. No turning the clock back. The war momentum will take over then and a series of devastating disasters will rapidly follow.

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Dems Abandon War Authority Provision

by David Espo and Matthew Lee, The Associated Press, March 13, 2007

Top House Democrats retreated Monday from an attempt to limit President Bush's authority for taking military action against Iran as the leadership concentrated on a looming confrontation with the White House over the Iraq war.

Officials said Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of the leadership had decided to strip from a major military spending bill a requirement for Bush to gain approval from Congress before moving against Iran.

Conservative Democrats as well as lawmakers concerned about the possible impact on Israel had argued for the change in strategy.

The developments occurred as Democrats pointed toward an initial test vote in the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday on the overall bill, which would require the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by Sept. 1, 2008, if not earlier. The measure provides nearly $100 billion to pay for fighting in two wars, and includes more money than the president requested for operations in Afghanistan and what Democrats called training and equipment shortages.

The White House has issued a veto threat against the bill, and Vice President Dick Cheney attacked its supporters in a speech, declaring they "are telling the enemy simply to watch the clock and wait us out."

House GOP Leader John Boehner of Ohio issued a statement that said Democrats shouldn't count on any help passing their legislation. "Republicans will continue to stand united in this debate, and will oppose efforts by Democrats to undermine the ability of General Petraeus and our troops to achieve victory in the Global War on Terror," he said.

Top Democrats had a different perspective.

Pelosi issued a written statement that said the vice president's remarks prove that "the administration's answer to continuing violence in Iraq is more troops and more treasure from the American people."

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