BOMBING CAN COMMENCE – WWIII TO FOLLOW

The sabers are rattling. Propaganda is being blared from the loudspeakers. The MSM is issuing the fearmongering alerts. Israel has activated their bought off Congressmen. The Greater Depression is upon us. Elections are only 3 months away. How will the ruling elite distract the American people from their economic plight? I wonder.

Preparing for World War III, Targeting Iran

Michel Chossudovsky
Aug 5, 2010

Humanity is at a dangerous crossroads. War preparations to attack Iran are in “an advanced state of readiness”. Hi tech weapons systems including nuclear warheads are fully deployed.

This military adventure has been on the Pentagon’s drawing board since the mid-1990s. First Iraq, then Iran according to a declassified 1995 US Central Command document.

Escalation is part of the military agenda. While Iran, is the next target together with Syria and Lebanon, this strategic military deployment also threatens North Korea, China and Russia.

Since 2005, the US and its allies, including America’s NATO partners and Israel, have been involved in the extensive deployment and stockpiling of advanced weapons systems. The air defense systems of the US, NATO member countries and Israel are fully integrated.

This is a coordinated endeavor of the Pentagon, NATO, Israel’s Defense Force (IDF), with the active military involvement of several non-NATO partner countries including the frontline Arab states (members of NATO’s Mediterranean Dialogue and the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative), Saudi Arabia, Japan, South Korea, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia, among others. (NATO consists of 28 NATO member states  Another 21 countries are members of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC), The Mediterranean Dialogue and the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative include ten Arab countries plus Israel.)

The roles of Egypt, the Gulf states and Saudi Arabia (within the extended military alliance) is of particular relevance. Egypt controls the transit of war ships and oil tankers through the Suez Canal. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States occupy the South Western coastlines of the Persian Gulf, the Straits of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman. In early June, “Egypt reportedly allowed one Israeli and eleven U.S. ships to pass through the Suez Canal in ….an apparent signal to Iran. … On June 12, regional press outlets reported that the Saudis had granted Israel the right to fly over its airspace…” (Muriel Mirak Weissbach,  Israel’s Insane War on Iran Must Be Prevented., Global Research, July 31, 2010)

In post 9/11 military doctrine, this massive deployment of military hardware has been defined as part of the so-called  “Global War on Terrorism”, targeting “non-State” terrorist organizations including al Qaeda and so-called “State sponsors of terrorism”,. including Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan.

The setting up of new US military bases, the stockpiling of advanced weapons systems including tactical nuclear weapons, etc. were implemented as part of the pre-emptive defensive military doctrine under the umbrella of the “Global War on Terrorism”.

War and the Economic Crisis

The broader implications of a US-NATO Israel attack on Iran are far-reaching. The war and the economic crisis are intimately related. The war economy is financed by Wall Street, which stands as the creditor of the US administration. The US weapons producers are the recipients of the US Department of Defense multibillion dollar procurement contracts for advanced weapons systems. In turn, “the battle for oil” in the Middle East and Central Asia directly serves the interests of the Anglo-American oil giants.

The US and its allies are “beating the drums of war” at the height of a Worldwide economic depression, not to mention the most serious environmental catastrophe in World history. In a bitter twist, one of the major players (BP) on the Middle East Central Asia geopolitical chessboard, formerly known as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, is the instigator of the ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

Media Disinformation

Public opinion, swayed by media hype is tacitly supportive, indifferent or ignorant as to the likely impacts of what is upheld as an ad hoc “punitive” operation directed against Iran’s nuclear facilities rather than an all out war. War preparations include the deployment of  US and Israeli produced nuclear weapons. In this context, the devastating consequences of a nuclear war are either trivialised or simply not mentioned. 

The “real crisis” threatening humanity, according to the media and the governments, is not war but global warming. The media will fabricate a crisis where there is no crisis: ”a global scare” — the H1N1 global pandemic– but nobody seems to fear a US sponsored nuclear war. 

The war on Iran is presented to public opinion as an issue among others. It is not viewed as a threat to “Mother Earth” as in the case of global warming. It is not front-page news. The fact that an attack on Iran could lead to escalation and potentially unleash a “global war” is not a matter of concern. 

The Cult of Killing and Destruction

The global killing machine is also sustained by an imbedded cult of killing and destruction which pervades Hollywood movies, not to mention the prime time war and crime TV series on network television. This cult of killing is endorsed by the CIA and the Pentagon which also support (finance) Hollywood productions as an instrument of war propaganda:

“Ex-CIA agent Bob Baer told us, “There’s a symbiosis between the CIA and Hollywood” and revealed that former CIA director George Tenet is currently, “out in Hollywood, talking to studios.” (Matthew Alford and Robbie Graham, Lights, Camera… Covert Action: The Deep Politics of Hollywood, Global Research, January 31, 2009).

The killing machine is deployed at a global level, within the framework of the unified combat command structure. It is routinely upheld by the institutions of government, the corporate media and the mandarins and intellectuals of the New World Order in Washington’s think tanks and strategic studies research institutes, as an unquestioned instrument of peace and global prosperity.

A culture of killing and violence has become imbedded in human consciousness.

War is broadly accepted as part of a societal process: The Homeland needs to be “defended” and protected.

“Legitimized violence” and extrajudicial killings directed against “terrorists” are upheld in western democracies, as necessary instruments of national security.

A “humanitarian war” is upheld by the so-called international community. It is not condemned as a criminal act. Its main architects are rewarded for their contributions to world peace.

With regard to Iran, what is unfolding is the outright legitimization of war in the name of an illusive notion of global security.

A “Pre-emptive” Aerial attack directed against Iran would lead to Escalation

At present there are three separate Middle East Central Asia war theaters: Iraq, Af-Pak, and Palestine.

Were Iran to be the object of a “pre-emptive” aerial attack by allied forces, the entire region, from the Eastern Mediterranean to China’s Western frontier with Afghanistan and Pakistan, would flare up, leading us potentially into a World War III scenario.

The war would also extend into Lebanon and Syria.

It is highly unlikely that the bombings, if they were to be implemented, would be circumscribed to Iran’s nuclear facilities as claimed by US-NATO official statements. What is more probable is an all out air attack on both military and civilian infrastructure, transport systems, factories, public buildings.

Preparing for World War III, Targeting Iran wwIIImiddleeast

Iran, with an an estimated ten percent of global oil and gas reserves, ranks third after Saudi Arabia (25 %) and Iraq (11 %) in the size of its reserves. In comparison, the US possesses less than 2.8 % of global oil reserves. The oil reserves of the U.S. are estimated at less than 20 billion barrels. The broader region of the Middle East and Central Asia have oil reserves which are more than thirty times those of the U.S, representing more than 60% of the World’s total reserves. (See Eric Waddell, The Battle for Oil, Global Research, December 2004).

Of significance is the recent discovery in Iran of the second largest known reserves of natural gas at Soumar and Halgan estimated at 12.4 trillion cubic feet.

Targeting Iran consists not only in reclaiming Anglo-American control over Iran’s oil and gas economy, including pipeline routes, it also challenges the presence and influence of China and Russia in the region.

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The planned attack on Iran is part of a coordinated global military road map. It is part of the Pentagon’s “long war”,  a profit driven war without borders, a project of World domination, a sequence of military operations.

US-NATO military planners have envisaged various scenarios of military escalation. They are also acutely aware of the geopolitical implications, namely that the war could extend beyond the Middle East Central Asia region. The economic impacts on the oil markets, etc. have also been analyzed. 

While Iran, Syria and Lebanon are the immediate targets, China, Russia, North Korea, not to mention Venezuela and Cuba are also the object of US threats.

At stake is the structure of military alliances. US-NATO-Israel military deployments including military exercises and drills conducted on Russia and China’s immediate borders bear a direct relationship to the proposed war on Iran. These veiled threats, including their timing, constitute an obvious hint to the former powers of the Cold War era not to intervene in any way which could encroach upon a US-led attack on Iran.

Global Warfare

The medium term strategic objective is to target Iran and neutralize Iran’s allies, through gunboat diplomacy. The longer term military objective is to directly target China and Russia.

While Iran is the immediate target, military deployment is by no means limited to the Middle East and Central Asia. A global military agenda has been formulated.

The deployment of coalition troops and advanced weapons systems by the US, NATO and its partners is occurring simultaneously in all major regions of the World. 

The recent actions of the US military off the coast of North Korea including the conduct of war games are part of a global design.

Directed primarily against Russia and China, US, NATO and allied military exercises, war drills, weapons deployments, etc. are being conducted simultaneously in major geopolitical hotspots.

-The Korean Peninsula, the Sea of Japan, the Taiwan Straits, the South China Sea threatening China.

-The deployment of Patriot missiles in Poland, the early warning center in the Czech republic threatening Russia.

-Naval deployments in Bulgaria, Romania on the Black Sea, threatening Russia.

– US and NATO troops deployments in Georgia.

– A formidable naval deployment in the Persian Gulf including Israeli submarines directed against Iran.

Concurrently the Eastern Mediterranean, the Black Sea, the Caribbean, Central America and the Andean region of South America are areas of ongoing militarization. In Latin America and the Caribbean, the threats are directed against Venezuela and Cuba. 

US “Military Aid”

In turn, large scale weapons transfers have been undertaken under the banner of US “military aid” to selected countries, including a 5 billion dollar arms deal with India which is intended to build India’s capabilities directed against China. (Huge U.S.-India Arms Deal To Contain China, Global Times, July 13, 2010).

“[The] arms sales will improve ties between Washington and New Delhi, and, intentionally or not, will have the effect of containing China’s influence in the region.” quoted in Rick Rozoff, Confronting both China and Russia: U.S. Risks Military Clash With China In Yellow Sea, Global Research, July 16, 2010)

The US has military cooperation agreements with a number of South East Asian countries including Singapore, Vietnam and Indonesia, involving “military aid” as well as the participation in U.S.-led war games in the Pacific Rim (July -August 2010). These agreements are supportive of weapons deployments directed against The People’s Republic of China. (See Rick Rozoff, Confronting both China and Russia: U.S. Risks Military Clash With China In Yellow Sea, Global Research, July 16, 2010).

Similarly and more directly related to the planned attack on Iran, the US is arming the Gulf States (Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates) with land-based interceptor missiles, Patriot Advanced Capability-3 and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) as well as sea-based Standard Missile-3 interceptors installed on Aegis class warships in the Persian Gulf. (See Rick Rozoff,  NATO’s Role In The Military Encirclement Of Iran, Global Research, February 10, 2010).

The Timetable of Military Stockpiling and Deployment

What is crucial in regards to US weapons transfers to partner countries and allies is the actual timing of delivery and deployment. The launch of a US sponsored military operation would normally occur once these weapons systems are in place, effectively deployed with the implementation of personnel training. (e.g India).

What we are dealing with is a carefully coordinated global military design controlled by the Pentagon, involving the combined armed forces of more than forty countries. This global multinational military deployment is by far the largest display of advanced weapons systems in World history. 

In turn, the US and its allies have established new military bases in different parts of the world.  “The Surface of the Earth is Structured as a Wide Battlefield”. (See Jules Dufour, The Worldwide Network of US Military Bases , Global Research, July 1, 2007).

The Unified Command structure divided up into geographic Combatant Commands is predicated on a strategy of militarization at the global level. “The US Military has bases in 63 countries. Brand new military bases have been built since September 11, 2001 in seven countries. In total, there are 255,065 US military personnel deployed Worldwide.” (See Jules Dufour, The Worldwide Network of US Military Bases , Global Research, July 1, 2007

 

 Preparing for World War III, Targeting Iran unified command world map1

Source: DefenseLINK-Unified Command Plan

World War III Scenario

“The World Commanders’ Areas of Responsibility” (See Map above) defines the Pentagon’s global military design, which is one of World conquest.  This military deployment is occurring in several regions simultaneously under the coordination of the regional US Commands, involving the stockpiling of US made weapons systems by US forces and partner countries, some of which are former enemies, including Vietnam and Japan.

The present context is characterised by a global military build-up controlled by one World superpower, which is using its numerous allies to trigger regional wars.

In contrast, the Second World War was a conjunction of separate regional war theaters. Given the communications technologies and weapons systems of the 1940s, there was no strategic “real time” coordination in military actions between broad geographic regions

Global warfare is based on the coordinated deployment of a single dominant military power, which oversees the actions of its allies and partners.

With the exception of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Second World War was characterized by the use of conventional weapons. The planning of  a global war relies on the militarization of outer space. Were a war directed against iran to be launched, it would not only use nuclear weapons, the entire gamut of new advanced weapons systems, including electrometric weapons and environmental modification techniques (ENMOD) would be used.

The United Nations Security Council

The UN Security Council adopted in early June a fourth round of sweeping sanctions against The Islamic Republic of Iran, which included an expanded arms embargo as well “tougher financial controls”. In a bitter irony, this resolution was passed within days of the United Nations Secrity Council’s outright refusal to adopt a motion condemning Israel for its attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in international waters. 

Both China and Russia, pressured by the US, have endorsed the UNSC sanctions’ regime, to their own detriment. Their decision within the UNSC contributes to weakening their own military alliance, the Shanghai  Cooperation organization (SCO), in which Iran has observer status. The Security Council resolution freezes China and Russia’s respective bilateral military cooperation and trade agreements with Iran. It has serious repercussions on Iran’s air defense system which in part depends on Russian technology and expertise.

The Security Council resolution grants a de facto “green light” to wage a pre-emptive war against Iran.

The American Inquisition: Building a Political Consensus for War

In chorus, the Western media has branded Iran as a threat to global security in view of its alleged (non-existent) nuclear weapons program. Echoing official statements, the media is now demanding the implementation of punitive bombings directed against Iran so as to safeguard Israel’s security.

The Western media is beating the drums of war. The purpose is to tacitly instil, through repeated media reports, ad nauseam, within people’s inner consciousness, the notion that the Iranian threat is real and that the Islamic Republic should be “taken out”.

A consensus building process to wage war is similar to the Spanish inquisition. It requires and demands submission to the notion that war is a humanitarian endeavor.

Known and documented, the real threat to global security emanates from the US-NATO-Israel alliance, yet realities in an inquisitorial environment are turned upside down: the warmongers are committed to peace, the victims of war are presented as the protagonists of war. Whereas in 2006, almost two thirds of Americans were opposed to military action against Iran, a recent Reuter-Zogby February 2010 poll suggests that 56 % of Americans favor a US-NATO military action against Iran. 

Building a political consensus which is based on an outright lie cannot, however, rely solely on the official position of those who are the source of the lie.

The antiwar movement in the US, which has in part been infiltrated and co-opted, has taken on a weak stance with regard to Iran. The antiwar movement is divided. The emphasis has been on wars which have already occurred (Afghanistan, Iraq) rather than forcefully opposing wars which are being prepared and which are currently on the Pentagon’s drawing board. Since the inauguration of the Obama administration, the antiwar movement has lost some of its impetus.

Moreover, those who  actively oppose the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq, do not necessarily oppose the conduct of “punitive bombings” directed Iran, nor do they categorize these bombings as an act of war, which could potentially be a prelude to World War III.

The scale of antiwar protest in relation to Iran has been minimal in comparison to the mass demonstrations which preceded the 2003 bombing and invasion of Iraq.

The real threat to global security emanates from the US-NATO-Israel alliance.

The Iran operation is not being opposed in the diplomatic arena by China and Russia; it has the support of the governments of the frontline Arab states which are integrated into the NATO sponsored Mediterranean dialogue. It also has the tacit support of Western public opinion.

We call upon people across the land, in America,  Western Europe, Israel, Turkey and around the world to rise up against this military project, against their governments which are supportive of military action against Iran, against the media which serves to camouflage the devastating implications of a war against Iran.

The military agenda support a profit driven destructive global economic system which impoverishes large sectors of the world population.

This war is sheer madness.

World War III is terminal. Albert Einstein understood the perils of nuclear war and the extinction of life on earth, which has already started with the radioactive contamination resulting from depleted uranium. “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

The media, the intellectuals, the scientists and the politicians, in chorus, obfuscate the untold truth, namely that war using nuclear warheads destroys humanity, and that this complex process of gradual destruction has already commenced.

When the lie becomes the truth there is no turning backwards.

When war is upheld as a humanitarian endeavor, Justice and the entire international legal system are turned upside down: pacifism and the antiwar movement are criminalized. Opposing the war becomes a criminal act. 

The Lie must be exposed for what it is and what it does.

It sanctions the indiscriminate killing of men, women and children.

It destroys families and people. It destroys the commitment of people towards their fellow human beings.

It prevents people from expressing their solidarity for those who suffer. It upholds war and the police state as the sole avenue.

It destroys both nationalism and internationalism.

Breaking the lie means breaking a criminal project of global destruction, in which the quest for profit is the overriding force.

This profit driven military agenda destroys human values and transforms people into unconscious zombies. 

Let us reverse the tide.

Challenge the war criminals in high office and the powerful corproate lobby groups wich support them  

Break the American inquisition.

Undermine the US-NATO-Israel military crusade.

Close down the weapons factories and the military bases.

Bring home the troops. 

Members of the armed forces should disobey orders and refuse to participate in a criminal war. 

 

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Mr Morphed

Now I am waiting for the idiot warmongers to say “kill them all and let God sort them out.” Newt GrinGrinch for President..that should do it. Here to all the Dumb ass Morons that think war is going to pull us out of this economic death spiral, “good luck with that.” And for any of you ignorant pricks that want to debate, here is what you are up against: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVuUd6Yh3S8

Don’t come to a war of wits unarmed.

Mike. B
Mike. B

I don’t buy it, the article or the video……they have medication for people who exist on the edge of a paranoid delusional state….

DataJunkie
DataJunkie

Oh they are very serious. This article presents the fundamentals. In other words, the global central bankers and Israel; working from the west, want to profit and further empower themselves by providing energy to Europe and obviously they have territorial ambitions. They want to prevent Russia.. and China.. from filling that energy void in a natural way. Like any greedy ego-maniacal bully accustomed to getting their own way and pounding everyone else into dust, they are confronting their ‘competition’ …while Russia and China refuse to roll over. The globalist central bankers don’t care what they have to destroy or who they have to kill to get what they want because most of them are certifiable psychopaths with no genuine connection to life and no moral constraints whatsoever. I believe it will be up to the People and the real military; not the MIC itself, to stop this insanity… I hope humanity is up to the task. I believe we are. Enough is enough.

DexterMorgan
DexterMorgan

You can aleady hear all the lies being told now. “A surgical targeted strike will quickly eliminate Iran’s desire or capability to produce nuclear weapons”, or “The Iranian people will turn on their President and overthrow their governemant for dragging them into a war with the west”.

Yeah right…you can place those in the same catageory as “We will be treated as liberators!”, or “The Iragi war exports will pay for the war by itself”.

But, my personal favorite was “It’s about jobs”….

ragman
ragman

Will CONgress do its Constitutional duty and declare war? I think not. If this happens, and I think it will at some point, how does Obongo intend to pay for it? What will $100/barrel oil and $5/gallon of gas do to our already fragile economy? just a few questions worth considering.

JIMSKI

Nice book idea.
I am reading a book right now about an old 4 stack destroyer that goes through a worm hole and winds up fighting at about the 1820 technology level. If presented as facts like this train wreck or a paranoids delusion I would laugh at it. As a few hours of escapism on a hot Saturday afternoon with a few cold beers it is fun.

Hey isn’t that guy the same dude in 2006 said the Mexican mafia smuggled in 7 suitcase nukes from Russia and they were going to be set off soon and oh by the way by my book about it?

Administrator
Administrator

NEOCON FOR PRESIDENT 2012

Smokey
Smokey

Kudos neocon!! As usual, I agree. Although when we take out Iran, Syria, North Korea, Pakistan, and Afghanistan I think we should finish the job by also taking out the other troublemakers—-Malaysia, The Philippines, Thailand, Yemen, Lybia, Egypt, Russia, and Saudi Arabia.

Administrator
Administrator

Smokey

How about Detroit and North Philly?

Smokey
Smokey

If I could only choose one more, I’d go with Harlem. But in the absence of that unreasonable restraint, I’d encourage adding Detroit and North Philly along with Chicago and DC.

ecliptix543

Ok then. Let’s say that this article is accurate. Seems the best way to preempt the attack is to discredit and bankrupt the primary sponsor of it – namely the US. If that were the path being followed by our alleged enemies, would it not look an awful lot like the past couple of decades have, and that Cheney et al would’ve been right that ‘deficits don’t matter’ since we’re all going to be dead anyway by the time they come due, and would not our policymakers’ current responses be very similar if not exactly the same as what they are, in fact, doing? Just sayin…

Mr Morphed

They should be considered expendable by this country, along with Syria, North Korea, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Although when we take out Iran, Syria, North Korea, Pakistan, and Afghanistan I think we should finish the job by also taking out the other troublemakers—-Malaysia, The Philippines, Thailand, Yemen, Lybia, Egypt, Russia, and Saudi Arabia.

And you guys think I need meds? Good Lord..

Viet Vet-70
Viet Vet-70

Lets see, soon to be 100K troops in Afghanistan, maybe 50K left in Iraq, most on multiple tours, where are they going to find the troops for Iran? Wait, we nuke them back to the “stone age”. Before we send any troops in, I submit that all the neo-cons and their families, be equiped with all the latest arms, forget the body armor, it was not deemed necessary for the begining of the Iraq war, plus some un amored hum-vees and send their sorry neo-con asses in first, then see how soon the war starts.

Brian
Brian

Smokey, Don’t touch Wrigley!

ragman
ragman

Viet Vet: Right on bro. Let Smokey, Neocon and the rest of the fucking pussy warmongers that have not served one fucking minute pick up they M16s and head to the front.

neocon
neocon

ragman—-Where the fuck do you get that I have not served one fucking minute? For your information, I just returned from my SECOND tour in Iraq. And I was stationed on the border of Kuwait in the first Gulf war in 1992, and flew copters on reconnaissance missions in Nam in ’69. I fought briefly in the Korean War and did a six year stint in WW II. Fuck, I lost my left hand from a grenade in Normandy. I confess I missed WW I because of spinal meningitis but I fought on the side of the South in the Civil War. I fought at the Alamo in the Spanish American War, and beside Custer while we cleared the frontier for “manifest destiny”. My fucking military career began in the swamps beside Francis Marion in the Revolutionary War, while I was making this country free for thankless people like you. And you have the fucking audacity, the unmitigated gall to say I have not served one fucking minute.

Cynical30

We’re having trouble beating the Hajjis hopping from cave to cave w/ no shoes on. A friend of mine’s bro is over in the shit right now & a platoon in his safehouse got hit by the Tali with 55 RPG rounds which melted an MRAP like candlewax. Great idea, let’s start another unwinnable war, but this time with a bunch of yahoos who have IEDs that can sink our aircraft carriers. Think of all the jobs we’ll create replacing all of that equipment!

Zarathustra

Neocon, so Iran is the biggest sponsor of state terroroism? Behold:

GORDON DUFF: SABROSKY INTERVIEW TIES ISRAEL TO 9/11

“ISRAEL DID IT”

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor

Meet Dr. Alan Sabrosky, a brave man, a USMC Vietnam vet, an American of Jewish ancestry and someone devoted to the security of the United States at any cost. Ask any Jew what it takes to stand up against the most powerful and ruthless group in the world, the Israeli lobby inside the United States.

Sabrosky has been calling for a new 9/11 investigation for some time. What makes him unique is that we have a Jew who can hardly be called “self-hating” or “anti-Semitic” or against Israel. He is consistent in everything he says. His point is that you are an American or you are an Israeli but you can’t be both, especially now with Zionism turning Israeli foreign policy into a “runaway train.” 9/11, as Sabrosky sees it was the watershed in a relationship between America and Israel that has gone from bad to unsurviveable, especially for America. He contents that AIPAC exercises near total control over the electoral process in America through the ability to outspend any other group and destroy anyone who stands against them.

The unwillingness of the US to stand with the international community on humanitarian and war crime issues where Israel is found in continual violation is, to Sabrosky, a critial issue. In discussion the US and her lack of support for the Goldstone Report, Sabrosky says:

US criticism of the HRC resolution should be disregarded, as Washington only parrots Israel’s wishes here…

… it might have been better to have included Goldstone’s condemnation of Hamas offenses as well, but it is legitimate as it stands for five reasons: (1) Israel committed the great majority of the violations; (2) Israel had an overwhelming preponderance of military power; (3) Palestinians suffered almost all of the death and destruction; (4) Israel has a long, sordid history of ignoring UN commissions and resolutions, and of attacking UN facilities and killing UN staff, as when the clearly marked UNRWA facility in Gaza was bombed; and (5) the HRC focus is properly on the actions of the oppressor (Israel) and not on those of the oppressed (the Palestinians).

Another is that it did not accord Israel the right of self-defense. But Israel’s claim to self-defense in its savaging of Gaza is specious, because Israel — like all occupiers and oppressors — has no inherent right of self-defense against its victims. Who, for instance, would have accepted Nazi Germany’s assertion that its brutal reprisals against the Czechs for their assassination of a Nazi commander named Reinhard Heydrich was an exercise in self-defense? No one, and no one should accept Israel’s claim, either.

A third is that holding Israel accountable for its actions will somehow endanger the Middle East peace process. But there is no peace process, simply meaningless discussions to the dead end (for Palestinians and the rest of the region) of Israeli hegemony, and under Netanyahu or any electable government in Israel, there is not and cannot be one. There will be an enforced peace imposed from outside of the Middle East, over the objections and obstruction of Israel, or there will be none at all.

Read the full article:

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/03/19/22329/

Cynical30

And to my old buddy neocon. Dude, barring the fact that we have absolutely nothing to gain from a war w/ Xerxes & his Persian hordes. Let’s say we actually had the staff and the equipment to split up between the 3 theaters. Do you really think our inept, worthless leadership will let us win? We’re getting our asses handed to us in Afghan because we’re not allowed to fight. Hajji shoots at us and we have to call in to the fucking flagpole to get permission to respond, which is usually denied. Even if it’s granted, by the time word gets back, they lay their AK’s down and walk away, since we’re not allowed to engage them unarmed. They know all of our stupid, bureaucratic, inane rules and they use our own idiotic leadership to beat us on the ground.

neocon
neocon

Zara—Are you and David Pierre doing each other? I guess, in your opinion, since Duff has Jew somewhere in his bloodlines, that renders him an authority on all things terrorist. Gordon Duff is widely regarded, correctly so, as a fucking idiot fool in the fringe. He wants to reopen 9/11 because he is a duped imbecile. And you quote him because you are likewise.

neocon
neocon

Cynical 30—You are correct. As conditions currently exist there is no possibility for a win. It would take radical changes in strategy and tactics for the USA to win. These changes will not happen.

Zarathustra

Neocon, Dr. Sabrosky is the one with jewish ancestry.

neocon
neocon

Zara—-So I’ll rephrase. The widely discredited Duff thinks that because he finds a Jew to take a stand against Israel, that that somehow confers credibility to his(Duff’s) deluded (911)case. Sabrosky having Jewish ancestors in no way adds legitimacy to Duff’s argument. For every Jew of Sabrosky’s persuasion, there are at LEAST TEN THOUSAND Jews of the opposite opinion.

Smokey
Smokey

Brian—-I’ll have the troops set up a perimeter around Wrigley.

Zarathustra

Woohoo, Lila Rajiva! 🙂

SSS

Admin

You should be ashamed. The guy who wrote this article is a ranting, raving anti-war activist. He’s a close-to-the-edge 9/11 Truther. And the most damning evidence of all, he’s a fucking Canadian economist!!! Here’s a sample of the shit he writes:

“Since the Cold War era, Washington has consciously supported Osama bin Laden, while at same time placing him on the FBI’s “most wanted list” as the World’s foremost terrorist.

While the Mujahideen are busy fighting America’s war in the Balkans and the former Soviet Union, the FBI –operating as a US based Police Force- is waging a domestic war against terrorism, operating in some respects independently of the CIA which has –since the Soviet-Afghan war– supported international terrorism through its covert operations.

In a cruel irony, while the Islamic jihad –featured by the Bush Adminstration as “a threat to America”– is blamed for the terrorist assaults on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, these same Islamic organisations constitute a key instrument of US military-intelligence operations in the Balkans and the former Soviet Union.

In the wake of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, the truth must prevail to prevent the Bush Adminstration together with its NATO partners from embarking upon a military adventure which threatens the future of humanity.”

Administrator
Administrator

Nothing wrong with being an anti-war activist in my book.

Smokey
Smokey

SSS—-It was deliberately posted SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE the guy who wrote it is a nut case.

Administrator
Administrator

Smokey

Do you think I would ever try to provoke someone. I’m busy working on my manifesto to legalize drugs. Do you think that will provoke someone?

SSS

Admin

You are correct. There nothing wrong with being an anti-war activist.

But when you make statements like, “Since the Cold War era, Washington has consciously supported Osama bin Laden, while at same time placing him on the FBI’s “most wanted list” as the World’s foremost terrorist,” you lose all credibility in MY book. Ergo, my justification for using “ranting, raving anti-war activist.”

Administrator
Administrator

Wasn’t Osama our ally until 1991? We backed him against the Russians. Just like Saddam was our buddy from 1980 until 1991. Iran was just swell until 1979. It’s tough to tell our enemies from our friends.

SSS

Admin

Bin Laden was NOT our ally, ever. He happened to be among the mujahideen that were the beneficiaries of our military aid in their fight against the Soviets. Period. That’s it. So was Mullah Omar and Muhammed Atta and dozens of others who turned out to be among the clique who planned, or supported those who did, 9/11.

The USG figured out in the early 1990s that bin Laden was a dangerous man. Even Bill “BJ” Clinton got it and made a couple of half-assed attempts to kill him. Evidently all this goes right over the heads of people like Michel Chossudovsky and Jim Quinn like a Tomahawk missile.

The USG gave some minor military aid – uniforms, boots, jeeps, shit like that – early on in the Iraq-Iran war, as in the early 1980s. Saddam never got anything of significance, like some squadrons of F-4 fighters (the Iraqi Air Force was mostly MIG aircraft from the Soviets).

And why did all this happen? It was because the Iranians sacked our embassy in 1979 and held everyone captive for 444 days. It cost Carter the presidency because that limp-wristed jackoff couldn’t pull the trigger. Reagan, like Ike in the 1952 campaign featuring a Korea standoff, said he WOULD pull the trigger. It worked. Crisis over. Thus, we would poke the Iranians in the eye every chance we would get for the next several years, including milligiveashit aid to Iraq.

Administrator
Administrator

You seem to have forgotten the CIA coup that put the Shah in power. I believe he wasn’t a benevolent guy.

neocon
neocon

Novista—–Invading Iran with six helicopters was a disgrace and an embarrassment by a limp-wristed coward. It was fucking pathetic.

ragman
ragman

Neocon: Sure I’m a thankless asshole that doesn’t appreciate your 234 yrs of service to our country. Seriously, I am not totally against war if: war is declared IAW our Constitution, said war is in the best interests of OUR country, we know when the war has been “won”, and we have a clear exit strategy. This has not been done since WWII.

SSS

Admin

You said, “You seem to have forgotten the CIA coup that put the Shah in power. I believe he wasn’t a benevolent guy.” Why do you keep throwing shit out there as if certain events occurred in a vacuum? It was 1954!! The Cold War was just hitting high gear, and the overwhelming majority of U.S. citizens, including the president, correctly considered the Soviet Union a genuine threat to not only the United States, but the entire planet. A global chess game was well underway.

Josef Stalin had just died the year before, and leadership in the Kremlin was still unsettled. Iranian prime minister Mossadegh was a mental basket case who kept threatening to move Iran into the Soviet camp. The fucking idiot held press conferences while he was in bed dressed in his pajamas. The coup itself was 95% Iranian military officers and 5% CIA.

Novista

No, I don’t know who said, “And bin Laden was on the CIA payroll until September 10, 2001.” I am sure you know who I am quoting. Rebuttal?” My guess is Al Gore or David Pierre, and I’m not wasting my time with a rebuttal to that unhinged assertion.

ragman
ragman

SSS: thanks for your latest comment regarding the Shah. There is so much shit going on “behind the scenes, under the radar, &tc” and we really don’t need to know what you folks did/do. You have/had your job and along with the other shadow organizations you folks do your best to keep our country safe. My concern is with the blatant disregard for our Constitution, especially regarding war and the declaration of war. CONgress should just do its fucking job!

SSS

ragman

Couldn’t agree more. If Congress can’t gather enough cajones to declare war against al Qaeda and Afghanistan after 9/11, then the situation is hopeless.

Instead, we get another idiotic congressional resolution that dropped it all in Bush’s lap. “Have at it, George. We’ll start playing the blame game and political football at a date and time of our choosing, sucker.” What a bunch of limp dicks.

Zara
Zara

SSS, and I suppose it was mere coincidence that Dr. Mossadegh nationalized the holdings of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (now BP). Yeah, it had to be he was a commie sympathizer.

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