choose sides carefully. On Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 4:46:36 AM UTC-6, Bruce Majors wrote: > > Oh good lord how stupid > > Moslem theocrats declare rape and beheadings contrary to islam while doing > them > > This shit makes people think libertarians and Ron Paul are retarded > > In Ron Paul's case they may be right > > On Wednesday, March 4, 2015, MJ <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> >> >> >> *"To begin, Iran has not sought a nuclear weapon >> <http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/the-iranian-threat-that-never-was/>, >> and the country’s leader declares such weapons contrary to Islam. (For >> details, see Gareth Porter’s well-documented Manufactured Crisis: The >> Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare >> <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1935982338/futuoffreefou-20>.) For >> a quarter century, Netanyahu has warned that an Iranian bomb is imminent. >> But U.S. >> <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/dec/04/politics.topstories3> and >> Israeli >> <http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/02/leaks-netanyahu-misled-iran-nuclear-programme-guardian-iran-nuclear-speech-2012-150218165622065.html> >> >> intel say he’s wrong." *March 4, 2015 >> >> *America Must Reject Netanyahu’s War Cry on Iran *by Sheldon Richman >> >> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to Washington this week to >> prepare the American people for war against Iran. Backed by American >> neoconservatives, the Israel lobby, and assorted other war hawks, Netanyahu >> insists that Iran intends to build a nuclear weapon and thus is an >> “existential threat” to Israel. He has no confidence that President Obama >> will negotiate an agreement that once and for all will end Iran’s alleged >> nuclear ambitions. >> >> Thus the prime minister’s objective is nothing less than to wreck the >> current negotiations and push America into a regime-changing war against >> Iran. >> >> Netanyahu’s narrative is a fabric of lies and omissions. >> >> To begin, Iran has not sought a nuclear weapon >> <http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/the-iranian-threat-that-never-was/>, >> and the country’s leader declares such weapons contrary to Islam. (For >> details, see Gareth Porter’s well-documented *Manufactured Crisis: The >> Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare* >> <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1935982338/futuoffreefou-20>.) >> For a quarter century, Netanyahu has warned that an Iranian bomb is >> imminent. But U.S. >> <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/dec/04/politics.topstories3> and >> Israeli >> <http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/02/leaks-netanyahu-misled-iran-nuclear-programme-guardian-iran-nuclear-speech-2012-150218165622065.html> >> >> intel say he’s wrong. >> >> Iran nevertheless wants to reassure the world so that crushing economic >> sanctions will be lifted. Hence, the current negotiations. (Iran made >> similar overtures before.) >> >> Iran’s government is a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty >> (NPT), subjecting it to inspections by the International Atomic Energy >> Agency, which can account for every atom of uranium. >> >> Members of the NPT are free to have a civilian nuclear-power program, >> including the ability to enrich uranium, and Iran insists that it be >> treated as other members are. Nevertheless, for decades the U.S. government >> has exerted pressure to stop Iran from having a civilian nuclear industry. >> When Iran a few years ago agreed to forgo enrichment and obtain enriched >> uranium from abroad, the U.S. government blocked the deal. Netanyahu and >> his American allies oppose Iran’s having any enrichment capability. >> >> Moreover and this ignored fact seems rather important Israel is the >> *nuclear >> monopolist of the Mideast* >> <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/15/truth-israels-secret-nuclear-arsenal>. >> >> That hardly anyone talks about this is at once remarkable and unsurprising. >> But think about it: Israel has hundreds of nuclear warheads some of them >> on invulnerable submarines capable of surviving a first strike. Even if >> Iran built one warhead, it would be useless except as a deterrent against >> Israel and the country’s rulers know it. Israel has not signed the NPT >> and does not submit to IAEA inspections. It is a nuclear rogue state. >> >> As Gideon Rose, editor of *Foreign Affairs* magazine (published by the >> establishment Council on Foreign Relations), said on CNN recently, Israel >> could “destroy Iran this afternoon.” If there is an existential threat, >> Israel is the source and Iran is the target. >> >> How does Netanyahu’s alarmist narrative look now? >> >> It is erroneously believed that Iran has threatened to attack Israel. In >> fact, Israel and the United States have been waging war economic, covert, >> proxy, and cyber against Iran for decades. Since the repressive >> U.S.-backed Iranian regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, a close friend of >> Israel, was overthrown in 1979, Israel’s leaders have openly rattled sabers >> at the Islamic Republic. American presidents have repeatedly declared that >> “all military options are on the table” which would include nuclear >> weapons. The United States helped Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein fight a war >> of aggression against Iran in the 1980s, providing him with components for >> chemical weapons and satellite intelligence. Why wouldn’t Iran feel >> threatened by the United States and its close ally Israel? Even so, Iran >> has not threatened to attack Israel or America. >> >> Netanyahu would have us believe the Iranian regime wants to exterminate >> all Jews. But that’s hard to square with the continuous presence >> <http://www.juancole.com/2014/08/pass-iran-quiz.html> of a Jewish >> community in Iran today the largest in the Muslim Middle East for two >> thousand years. Iran’s steadfast opposition to Israel’s institutionalized >> injustice against the Palestinians is not anti-Semitism. >> >> So why is Netanyahu pushing war? Among several reasons, demonizing Iran >> reduces pressure on Israel to negotiate *seriously *with the >> Palestinians. Many Israelis prefer building Jewish settlements on >> Palestinians’ land instead. Moreover, Israel’s rulers oppose any >> development such as an Iranian-U.S. detente that could diminish >> Israel’s U.S.-financed hegemony in the region. >> >> War with Iran would be a catastrophe all around. Netanyahu and his >> hawkish American allies the same people who gave us the disastrous Iraq >> war and ISIS must be repudiated. >> >> >> >> http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/america-must-reject-netanyahus-war-cry-iran/ >> >> >> -- >> -- >> Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. >> For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum >> >> * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ >> * It's active and moderated. 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