After reading the following, I find the article interesting abd thought provoking. The view from the outside is rare now-a-days. Here is a Canadians slant on current events State side.
Is Your Entire Country On Crack?
By Den Vandron
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http://www.brainshrub.com/canadian-comment-invade-iran http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/000749.html Speaking as a Canadian who is fond of judicious language, I feel that
this situation deserves careful and measured thought. So let me just
open with:
Is your entire f*cking country on crack??? Are all you Americans out
of your cotton picking minds??? Are you completely freaking
delusional? Homicidal? Psychotic? Have you lost any shred of a moral
compass? WHAT IN THE NAME OF JESUS H. CHRIST ON A CRUTCH IS WRONG WITH
YOU PEOPLE!!!!!
Let me offer up one small datum which may completely change the
equation for you: According to the CIA (If they have any credibility
left.) Iran is at least five years away from a nuclear weapon.
Five years.
Five years is time for diplomacy to accomplish a hell of a lot.
I would also point out that the Atomic Energy Commission, various
other international bodies and other inspections have essentially
found no sign that Iran is even working on a nuclear weapon.
The only actual evidence that Iran has anything close to nuclear
weapons technology is blueprints *that the CIA gave to them!*
Have you all forgotten that the evidence on Iraq was spectacularly
wrong? Have you all ignored the fact that it was fabricated? Why then
are we going down the exact same road of stage managed, fabricated
pseudo-evidence and wild-ass hysteria?
What is wrong with you people?
This entire crisis has been manufactured, and has been years in the
making.
Stop and think back five years. What did we have five years ago? A
moderate reformist Iranian government making overtures to the United
States, rebuilding its relationship with Europe, liberalizing its
society, and modernizing its economy.
9/11 comes along, the Iranians are overflowing with sympathy. Mass
candlelit vigils are held in Tehran. Iran offers aid and cooperation.
Iran hates the Taliban who have executed Iranian diplomats and
massacred Afghan Shiites. Iran hates Saddam Hussein. Iran hates Al
Qaeda which is a Sunni Fundamentalist organization which declares
Shiites infidels and subhuman.
Iran shares its intelligence with America - they even arrested Taliban
members and handed them over to US custody.
So we've got the Iranian spring; things are finally going to sort out.
And what happens? The Bush administration rebuffs every Iranian
overture and does its best to instigate a cold war. Afghanistan is
invaded, and suddenly, the Iranians are looking at American troops and
allies on their eastern border. Then Iraq is invaded, and American
troops and allies on their western border. Then bases and treaties in
Uzbekistan, and whoops, there's more American troops and allies on the
northern border. The Persian Gulf is filled with American warships and
carrier fleets.
Now the Iranians are surrounded. And the tough talk is constant. Iran
is part of the 'Axis of Evil' and Americans tell each other "Baghdad,
humph, real men go to Tehran." Essentially, America has been
threatening military action against Iran for the last five years, and
has surrounded the country on every side with troops, bases and allies.
American aircraft invade Iranian airspace regularly, American special
forces undertake operations inside Iran and Americans regularly accuse
Iranians of interference in Iraq.
Dick Cheney pontificates about Israel bombing Iran *after he has just
handed over to Israel the long range bombers and bunker busting bombs*
required to do the job.
Meanwhile, the United States undertakes economic warfare against Iran,
interfering with its business dealings with third party countries,
trying to scuttle a pipeline deal with India, and it goes on and on.
The hysteria about the Iranians nuclear program is just more of the same.
Now how in God's Bloody Name do you think the Iranians are going to
respond to that. Should they concede the nuclear program, abandon
their pipeline project? If so, its not going to do them any good.
America will just seek more concessions. Each surrender will be met by
new demands. This isn't hard to figure out. It's exactly what Bush did
with Iraq.
Perhaps overtures, good will gestures, trying to act like a peaceful
nation. Did all those things, doesn't matter. The Bush administration
is still on a collision course.
So, the Mullahs are concerned that they're faced with a homicidal
crazy state, the Iranian people are scared. When people are scared and
faced with an aggressive warmongering power which keeps threatening to
attack them, continually trespasses on its borders and is undertaking
economic warfare... who the hell are they going to elect? Ahminajad
may be a crazy *******, but you assholes, you utter assholes did every
thing you could to elect him short of donating 50,000 Diebold machines
and mailing his party the trapdoor codes.
So, having pursued a psychotically aggressive course, you've backed
Iran into a corner, and engineered a regime which refuses to back further.
And *you* are the victims in all this? *You* are the ones under
threat? It's *self defense*????
And of course, you goofily believe that you can just bomb or nuke Iran
with impunity?
Holy Microeconomic Theory Batman! Iran's nuclear facilities are
distributed across the country and in hardened sites near population
centers. So any strike that cripples a significant portion of Iran's
nuclear capacity will inevitably be so large and kill so many people
that its going to be tantamount to inviting full scale war.
Think about that. Iran is 70 million people, an area five times the
size of Iraq, not disemboweled by 12 years of sanctions and air raids.
On the other side of the coin, America's ground army is busted and
tied down in Iraq. There's no troops to throw at a major Iranian
military force, so you have to hope that bombing will do the trick.
The occupation forces in Iraq are in occupation and not territorial
defense mode. And Iraq is 65% Shiites who are probably not going to be
happy that you're blowing up their brother Shiites. Meanwhile, the
Strait of Hormuz is so narrow that sinking one supertanker will block
it indefinitely, and Iran borders the straight on three sides. Block
Hormuz and any naval groups inside the Persian Gulf are trapped there.
Any naval groups outside the Persian Gulf are trapped outside. Forget
about any oil coming out of the Persian Gulf from Iraq, Kuwait,
Quatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia or the UAE. Think about what
In short its so appallingly stupid and colossally risky, that I can
see why your idiots in charge might consider using nuclear weapons.
But throw a few nukes around and see how the rest of the world reacts?
Every dirt-wad country is going to be mortgaging the Presidential
palace to get its own nuclear deterrent from Pakistan or North Korea.
How do you feel about the Indonesian Bomb, the Malaysian Bomb, the
Thai Bomb, the Myanmar Bomb, the Algerian Bomb, the Saudi Bomb, the
Egyptian Bomb, the Brazilian Bomb, the Argentine Bomb, the Venezuelan
Bomb, the Cuban Bomb, the Japanese Bomb, the Canadian frigging Bomb.
You are no longer trustworthy. North Korea, always borderline
psychotic is going to be mondo difficult to deal with. You've just
guaranteed yourself a full fledged nuclear arms race, balls to the
wall with both Russia and China, and quite possibly Europe.
And of course there's no guarantee that the rest of the world will
allow this. Do you want an armed standoff with the Russians. Suppose
they 'loan' their finest interceptor jets, pilots and radar systems to
the Iranians... Do you want to meet *that* on a bombing raid? And if
you do meet *that* what are you going to do when half your planes are
blasted out of the skies conducting an illegal raid on civilian
populations in a foreign country? Cry? Send a harsh note?
Launch a first strike?
What happens if the Chinese decide to hold Taiwan and South Korea
hostage? What do you do? Back off Iran or sell out East Asia?
Hell, in that kind of standoff, someone sneezes and its not going to
matter who launched a first strike.
Or would you like an economic standoff, say with Europe, or with Japan
and China. Suppose that the Europeans or Chinese decide "screw the
worldwide depression, you assholes are just too dangerous to have
around." Trillions of dollars get dumped on the market, loans get
called in, the bottom drops out of your dollar, its thousand per cent
inflation and no manufacturing base and your own trade embargoes. So
much for America.
I mean, its morally wrong, its stupid on every level. And yet here you
are discussing why maybe you should get out in front of the
Republicans on this, or planning your surrender to Bush. Why are you
even discussing this?
What is wrong with America?
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