U.S. Attack on Iran #2

I got your excellent letter to Iran. The following is one of many such articles that show Bush's links with extreme, suicidal and deluded Christian Fundamentalists. There are millions of such people in the U.S.A. and they form an unthinking base of support for Bush, who appoints many of them to positions of power in his administration.

I would suggest that Iran devote personnel and resources to doing their own research into this threat, and consider adjusting their policies in order to cope with these delusions, in such ways that may prevent a U.S. nuclear attack on Iran.

For example they could;

accept an offer of enriched uranium from another source, to allay the false and groundless suspicions the U.S. has engendered in the world community.
They could offer to allow more inspections of Iran by the international community, in order to show that everything Iran had said was true.
Another even more dramatic policy step would be for Iran to announce it will officially recognise the reality of Israel's continued existence and will work with all nations to make a peaceful, secure middle east etc.

These are a few suggestions. But I think a team of brilliant and very informed thinkers, should devote full time to developing more proactive strategies to evaluate, reduce and hopefully eliminate this U.S. threat.

However, one must also consider that some powerful people among the neoconservative's and fundamentalists in the Bush Administration, will not wish to abandon their vision of dominating the Middle East, controlling it's oil, and/or bringing on the nuclear Armageddon they appear to want. Rather than lose the basis for attack, they may stage a 'False Flag' operation - attacking U.S. interests, then blaming Iran for treacherously killing Americans etc. They may use such an event to justify a nuclear attack and get the majority of the world behind them. They have used "False Flag' operations many times before. A Google search of "False Flag Operations" will confirm this and much more.

Now there are ways that even this kind of threat might be prevented and an urgent top priority group of people thinking about such problems could, I'm sure, come up with strategies to reduce the threat of a U.S. 'False Flag' blaming Iran.

For example:
Most people, including Americans, have never heard of "False Flag" operations and thus could be as easily fooled today, as they were when the U.S. staged a false attack on U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1965. Similarly, the German people were fooled by Hitler's "False Flag" burning down of the Reichstag in 1933 - allowing Hitler to establish his dictatorship and World War III.

That is why the Bush Administration may think it can stage another "False Flag" operation and then blame Iran as a justification for nuclear attack.

One good counter strategy might be to design and implement - as quickly as possible - an educational campaign, involving advertisements, press releases, official statements - along with official new counter policies - aimed both at the world and U.S. citizens, about "False Flag" operations that have been used by various governments since about 1600 and perhaps before and the fear that the Bush Administration may be planning such an operation to incriminate Iran. Such a campaign could be effective in many ways in informing, and making the American people and others, more resistant to the actual use of such an operation against Iran.

Bear in mind that the U.S. Government is devoting millions of dollars, perhaps billions, to create pro-war propaganda and the present climate in the U.S. where the majority believes Iran is a threat and U.S. military action is justified.

Please keep in mind, that if a "False Flag" is used against Iran in the present climate the Bush Administration has created, people will believe it and then approve U.S. military action against Iran.

You may approve and include this email in your communication with Iran, or amend and suggest changes in it before sending. Time is short so I remain ready to give further help.

Sincerely,

Lawrence F.J. Ross
Secretary/Founder
New Zealand Nuclear Free Peacemaking Association

Please read and assess it yourself, and perhaps include it with your letter.

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DOES BUSH THINK WAR WITH IRAN IS PREORDAINED?

By Chris Hedges, Truthdig - October 10, 2006

The Christian right sees an apocalyptic nuclear war with Iran
as a vision set forth in the Bible. Bush himself may be a believer, too.

The aircraft carrier Eisenhower, accompanied by the guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio, guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage, guided-missile destroyer USS Mason and the fast-attack submarine USS Newport News, is, as I write, making its way to the Straits of Hormuz off Iran. The ships will be in place to strike Iran by the end of the month. It may be a bluff. It may be a feint. It may be a simple show of American power. But I doubt it.

War with Iran -- a war that would unleash an apocalyptic scenario in the Middle East -- is probable by the end of the Bush administration. It could begin in as little as three weeks. This administration, claiming to be anointed by a Christian God to reshape the world, and especially the Middle East, defined three states at the start of its reign as "the Axis of Evil." They were Iraq, now occupied; North Korea, which, because it has nuclear weapons, is untouchable; and Iran. Those who do not take this apocalyptic rhetoric seriously have ignored the twisted pathology of men like Elliott Abrams, who helped orchestrate the disastrous and illegal contra war in Nicaragua, and who now handles the Middle East for the National Security Council. He knew nothing about Central America. He knows nothing about the Middle East. He sees the world through the childish, binary lens of good and evil, us and them, the forces of darkness and the forces of light. And it is this strange, twilight mentality that now grips most of the civilian planners who are barreling us towards a crisis of epic proportions.