Sunday, October 07, 2007
The Iranian threat
We have heard a lot of spin and propaganda from the disaster administration about how Iran is a threat. Iran's president was not allowed to lay a wreath at the site of the attack on New York. I guess the disasteradministration is now going to sell the idiots in this country that still listen that Iran had something to do with the attack on New York. There will be idiots like this......Karl Rove is still calling the disasterwhitehouse making suggestions.
Let's examine what the real truth might be. The International Atomic Energy Agency of the UN meets in Vienna has reported on this almost quarterly since the disasterpresident first started making his threats against Iran. I had the privilege of sitting in the audience and watching these procedings once upon a time. They have reported that Iran is years away from building an atomic bomb. They have reported that Iran is in compliance with their standards. Well, we did not listen to the inspectors in Iraq either........
Iran has been and is constantly being threatened by two nuclear powers as well as attacked covertly. Both the US and Israel have been conducting covert operations against Iran for quite some time. The US just recently in June turned away a first strike by Israeli warplanes over Iraq heading for what is thought to be Iran's nuclear laboratory. I guess the US is not quite as stupid militarily as we thought. I wish the State Department worked as well.
Iran is being blamed for the new super explosives that are killing our soldiers in their inadequate vehicles courtesy of the disaster administration. Gee, who would really be interested in us bogged down in a war that we could not win that would drain our power? Russia and China come to mind. And yes they are the same people who have been supplying weapons to the 'insurgents' and anyone else who will buy. Do you thing that the US is the only country that sells(profits from) weapons to whoever will buy them in the world no matter how heinous their regime. That is just not the way capitalism works boys and girls, we profit no matter what.
Iran is a complicated regime. It is pretty obvious that they have enough problems without being buddies with Al Queda as the disasterpresident would have you believe. Gasoline is more expensive there than here. Some parts of Iran gas cant be had at any price. Most of their population is below 35. Try running a theocratic dictatorship with that kind of demographic, no small task.
The Revolutionary Guards in Iran were set up because Iran completely got rid of the Shahs very strong western army. Instead, Iran took a bunch of thugs that believe in the rule of the mullahs, pledge to the Koran and terrorize the civilian population that is very western in thinking and attitude. Their leaders are fat old men that survived the terrible war with Iraq. They have implemented no real military training or structure to the Revolutionary Guard and needless to say discipline is lacking. They have incidents all the time that is an embarrassment to their administration. They are not a threat.
We should wake up and see who really wants to keep us bogged down and lose another war, Russia. The guys in charge there were mid-level managers when their Afghanistan War took place. They know full well that we were behind the insurgency there and Osama as one of the main functionaries. Who do you think has stockpiles of weapons with which they have been flooding the market? Russia. Who would love to see us fall on our ass? Russia. Who do you think would like to get some revenge for the suffering they experienced through the war and after the collapse of Russia? Russia. Their Afghan War generation are the people just coming to power. You think that they will be pissed off that we funded and armed the people that maimed them in their War.
Iran as a government has no interest in keeping an unstable state(s) on either side of them. Iran is trying to protect themselves against the next problem, oil running out. With nuclear power they can keep the lights on. They were importing oil from Iraq before this latest war!
When are we going to turn off the propaganda and really look at what our foreign policy should be. It needs to benefit the American people and not just Israel. It needs to look at our real competition in the world, Russia and China. They will present the real challenge to the US in the next decade.
NO ATTACK ON IRAN.
Let's examine what the real truth might be. The International Atomic Energy Agency of the UN meets in Vienna has reported on this almost quarterly since the disasterpresident first started making his threats against Iran. I had the privilege of sitting in the audience and watching these procedings once upon a time. They have reported that Iran is years away from building an atomic bomb. They have reported that Iran is in compliance with their standards. Well, we did not listen to the inspectors in Iraq either........
Iran has been and is constantly being threatened by two nuclear powers as well as attacked covertly. Both the US and Israel have been conducting covert operations against Iran for quite some time. The US just recently in June turned away a first strike by Israeli warplanes over Iraq heading for what is thought to be Iran's nuclear laboratory. I guess the US is not quite as stupid militarily as we thought. I wish the State Department worked as well.
Iran is being blamed for the new super explosives that are killing our soldiers in their inadequate vehicles courtesy of the disaster administration. Gee, who would really be interested in us bogged down in a war that we could not win that would drain our power? Russia and China come to mind. And yes they are the same people who have been supplying weapons to the 'insurgents' and anyone else who will buy. Do you thing that the US is the only country that sells(profits from) weapons to whoever will buy them in the world no matter how heinous their regime. That is just not the way capitalism works boys and girls, we profit no matter what.
Iran is a complicated regime. It is pretty obvious that they have enough problems without being buddies with Al Queda as the disasterpresident would have you believe. Gasoline is more expensive there than here. Some parts of Iran gas cant be had at any price. Most of their population is below 35. Try running a theocratic dictatorship with that kind of demographic, no small task.
The Revolutionary Guards in Iran were set up because Iran completely got rid of the Shahs very strong western army. Instead, Iran took a bunch of thugs that believe in the rule of the mullahs, pledge to the Koran and terrorize the civilian population that is very western in thinking and attitude. Their leaders are fat old men that survived the terrible war with Iraq. They have implemented no real military training or structure to the Revolutionary Guard and needless to say discipline is lacking. They have incidents all the time that is an embarrassment to their administration. They are not a threat.
We should wake up and see who really wants to keep us bogged down and lose another war, Russia. The guys in charge there were mid-level managers when their Afghanistan War took place. They know full well that we were behind the insurgency there and Osama as one of the main functionaries. Who do you think has stockpiles of weapons with which they have been flooding the market? Russia. Who would love to see us fall on our ass? Russia. Who do you think would like to get some revenge for the suffering they experienced through the war and after the collapse of Russia? Russia. Their Afghan War generation are the people just coming to power. You think that they will be pissed off that we funded and armed the people that maimed them in their War.
Iran as a government has no interest in keeping an unstable state(s) on either side of them. Iran is trying to protect themselves against the next problem, oil running out. With nuclear power they can keep the lights on. They were importing oil from Iraq before this latest war!
When are we going to turn off the propaganda and really look at what our foreign policy should be. It needs to benefit the American people and not just Israel. It needs to look at our real competition in the world, Russia and China. They will present the real challenge to the US in the next decade.
NO ATTACK ON IRAN.
