Bomb Iran? Sanity in Exile

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/17

Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran . . .....Or as Mitt Romney put it, playing the irresponsible-lunatic game convincingly enough to become the leading Republican presidential candidate: “If we re-elect Barack Obama, Iran will have a nuclear weapon.”

The consensus congeals: Our next war must be with Iran. A report issued by the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency, which the New York Times called “chillingly comprehensive” (though this is debatable), stoked this long-simmering agenda. It charges that Iran has conducted secret experiments on nuclear triggers and created computer models of nuclear explosions, among other things, which proves that the nation, despite its leaders’ protestations to the contrary, is pursuing . . . oh God, oh God . . . a nuclear weapons program.

War hysteria springs eternal. It certainly makes great fodder for a presidential campaign, as virtually all the GOP commander-in-chief wannabes are playing tough as nails on the issue, yanking the debate screamingly to the right. This is the way the game works. The Obama administration thus has to defend itself for eschewing, so far, a military response to the threat and pursuing only economic sanctions.

No matter the current sanctions have “applied so much pressure that the Iranian economy has ground to a halt,” according to an administration spokesman. Iran’s alleged hideous crime, of pursuing weapons only the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France, Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea are allowed to possess, requires a military pummeling of the first order. And this, then, is the national “debate”: war or war by other means. No other perspective is allowed or acknowledged. Defending sanctions, for instance, U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman, a California Democrat, said: “Critics also argued that these measures will hurt the Iranian people. Quite frankly, we need to do just that.”


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The US has a lot of nukes. The US government is a danger to the world. So why aren't there IAEA inspectors here, and why aren't other countries threatening to attack us?

Ever since Iraq, I've asked why other countries aren't allowed to have nukes when the US has so many. The US does not have a moral leg to stand on until it demolishes all of its nukes. Then maybe our government can go around telling other countries they can't have them.

They maintain a presence in all signatory countries and inspect all nuclear sites of countries that have signed the IAEA safeguards agreement. I think the UN is responsible for inspection decisions in non-signatory countries.

when the last time was that Iran invaded or bombed another country. No Googling!!!

And which countries they are currently flying hellfire missile armed drones over.

And when the last time they blew a passenger aircraft out of the sky.

"Iran Air Flight 655 (IR655) was a civilian jet airliner shot down by U.S. missiles on 3 July 1988, over the Strait of Hormuz, toward the end of the Iran–Iraq War. The aircraft, an Airbus A300B2-203 operated by Iran Air, was flying from Bandar Abbas, Iran, to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, over Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf on its usual flight path when it was destroyed by the U.S. Navy's guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes, killing all 290 passengers and crew aboard, including 66 children,<1> ranking it twelfth among the deadliest disasters in aviation history..."



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

Sometimes the F@rking hypocrites turn beet red and flail their arms about.

heh

I get all the GOP hopefuls mixed up...

:silly:

weight behind the US's 58th (or whatever) national victim