6, March 2013 IRAN
Haven’t we been snookered enough by bogus threats to our national security?
Author Nick Turse, “Kill Anything That Moves” reminds us that the sad saga of the Vietnam War was started on the false accusation that the North Vietnamese fired on our naval ship in the Gulf of Tonkin. He reports serious war crimes were committed in the killings of large number of civilians at the behest of the power elite in Washington who used body counts to measure progress.
Fast forward to 2003 when former President Bush- Cheney- Rumsfeld-Condoleezza Rice snookered us into another war based on the bogus testimony of a thoroughly unreliable ‘Alice in Wonderland’ fortune hunter called ‘Curveball.’ His doodling on a scrap piece of paper was the basis for General Powell’s proof that Saddam Hussein’s was manufacturing WMD’s.
And now, Prime Minister Netanyahu, who has been vigorously denounced by six former leaders of his own security agency, the Shin Bet, (see the documentary, ‘The Gatekeepers”), is trying to goad us into another conflict with Iran based on bogus allegations of the impending Iranian nuclear bomb. Israel continues to act coyly on its own huge arsenal of nuclear weapons. It is time to stop threatening Iran with bombs and bombast and start a respectful dialog however distasteful the Iranian regime might be.
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