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Renate Volz
On Saturday, Oct 13, 2007, at 22:16 US/Eastern, kombizz wrote:
"There is blood upon their hands"
Ernest Hemingway explained the problem many years ago. The first thing
politicians do to hide their mismanagement, he said, is inflate the
currency; the second thing they do is go to war.
Our currency has been inflated and we are at war. The demonization of
the
Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which you saw take place in
New York
City and on American television, is just the first step in preparing
the
country for a third war.
The president of Columbia, Lee Bollinger, disgraced himself. Instead of
introducing his invited guest speaker, he launched a tirade of abuse
and
insults. Obviously, he was in hot water with some of Columbia's big
donors
for inviting Ahmadinejad and chose that petty, shabby way of trying to
ingratiate himself to the school's angry sugar daddies. All Bollinger
succeeded in doing was making Ahmadinejad look good in comparison with
him.
Whether you agree with Iran's president or not, he's the wrong guy to
try to
demonize. He is not a dictator. He is an elected president.
The claims that Ahmadinejad denies the Holocaust and has called for the
destruction of Israel are false. He has called for regime change,
which is
something American politicians do every time they find a country whose
policies they disagree with. Regime change is a change of government,
not
genocide. As for the Holocaust, he said it raised two questions: Why
put
people in prison who question details of the official version, which
is what
several European countries do. Why should the Palestinians be made to
pay
for it? Both are good questions.
How American politicians can call Iran a dangerous country and claim
that it
poses a threat to the US is a mystery. On second thought, it is not a
mystery. It just tells you that the politicians think you and I are so
stupid that we will fall for the exact same parade of lies and
exaggerations
that was used to justify the war against Iraq.
Think for yourself. Iran has no nuclear weapons, and its military is
designed for defense. It has no offensive capability - no air force,
no navy
to speak of. Israel, on the other hand, is usually ranked as the fifth
most
powerful military state on the planet. It has more than 200 nuclear
weapons
and a superb air force.
Iran has said it has no desire to attack Israel or any other country.
It has
said its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes and that it has no
desire
for a nuclear weapon. The head cleric has issued a fatwa against
nuclear
weapons. And there is not one shred of evidence that Iran is pursuing a
nuclear weapon.
Just remember the lies told to you before Iraq: that Saddam Hussein was
pursuing a nuclear weapon; that he had enormous stockpiles of chemical
and
biological weapons. The only thing he really had was oil. That's why
we went
to war, and that's why the administration wants to go to war with Iran.
I've heard some politicians say that Ahmadinejad has "blood on his
hands."
Well, our $40 billion worth of intelligence cannot even determine if
he was
involved in the taking of the American embassy back in 1979. As for
blood,
American politicians have far more Iranian blood on their hands. We
overthrew Iran's democratic government and installed the Shah and his
secret
police. We sided with and assisted Saddam Hussein when he invaded
Iran. Tens
of thousands of Iranians are dead because of America's foreign policy.
We truly have a corrupt and incompetent government in Washington.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail.aspx?id=25357§ionid=3510303 Charley
Reese,
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/21/iraq.haditha/index.html ...or being
part of
a terror organization...
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