Never has a more irresponsible idea been debated, but sources believe Bush might want to do it. This video show the beautiful country called Iran, that the U.S. threatens.
(SALEM, Ore.) - Don't put it past George W. Bush to do a quick lateral move and set our country up for an attack on Iran. There is no way he would betray the truth of what they are actually considering at this point; that would not be a good surprise maneuver if they gave it away now.
The Jerusalem Post broke the news Tuesday morning that an Army Radio report exposed George W. Bush's intention to attack Iran in his final months in office, something the White House later denied. (see: Jerusalem Post: White House denies Iran attack report)
The Jerusalem Post quoted the Army Radio report, "according to assessments in Israel, the recent turmoil in Lebanon, where Hizbullah has established de facto control of the country, was advancing an American attack."
The official is reported as saying that Bush considered Hizbullah's show of strength evidence of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's growing influence. In Bush's view, the official said, "the disease must be treated - not its symptoms."
What Disease?
I looked into it, and learned that there is no disease; there are just people, opposing politics, and a lame duck U.S. President who we can not trust to remain cool headed during his remaining term as our national leader.
He has had little to no regard so far for our Americans forces deployed to war for tour after tour. There are by some estimates, 300,000 U.S. veterans who suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and last week a VA administrator told her staff to "stop diagnosing PTSD" cases because the patients were costing the federal government too much money. (see: VA Busted Again Over Poor Diagnosis and Mistreatment of PTSD Vets)
How could our military endure another war? The struggle to bring any kind of solution to the war in Afghanistan is compromised by our huge presence in Iraq, a country that Bush is still implying had something to do with the attacks on September 11th 2001, another complete fabrication but he'll keep repeating it and suggesting it as he did in a recent interview with NBC Bureau Chief Richard Engel, one of the most distinguished and knowledgeable reporters in the world, particularly with regard to Middle East affairs. (see: White House complains about Bush interview)
The people of Iran are very westernized in many ways, as I have learned through conversations with MySpace friends, which is an option for anyone who wants to take the time to do the same thing. I have found women in Iran in particular, to be very receptive toward providing information about what it is like to live there, and how they feel about the United States.
Not one of the people in Iran that I have discussed the situation with, dislike Americans. To the contrary, there are many similarities in style and music and many Americans are of Iranian descent. Over the years a large number of students from Iran have come to the U.S. to go to college and many stay here.
I asked one young professional woman in Tehran, the MySpace pen pal who provided the photos for the video below, what her view of the U.S. was. I also asked what goes through her mind when she considers that a war could actually take place between our countries if certain American "chickenhawk" politicians have their way. My friend who goes by the name of Roya, had this to say:
"I hope problems will be solve(d) by discussing too but the world leaders sound more crazy than I expect to me. I grew up in war since age 4, 5 for 8 years and all the air attack sirens and chemical bomb threats and southern immigrants moving to Tehran who had lost everything in life was scary! Can't imagine a new one again."
Lies Over Iran's Nuclear Ambitions: Fear and War Tactics
The White House on Tuesday afternoon dismissed the Army Radio story, but they took the time to say they remain opposed to Iran's ambitions to obtain "a nuclear weapon."
"To that end, we are working to bring tough diplomatic and economic pressure on the Iranians to get them to change their behavior and to halt their uranium enrichment program," the White House statement read.
Over and over again, Iran has stated that it is not pursuing a nuclear weapons program. But the American politicians like Bush, echoed by the parroting FOX News network and the other far-right mouthpieces on AM radio, keep repeating that Iran does want a nuclear weapon. It is amazing how far Bush is able to pull the wool over people's eyes and misdirect our fellow countrymen into believing fabrications that are hatched in the Oval Office.
A Bill To Restrain Bush
"Congress has the power to stop him," the group True Majority stated Tuesday. There is a resolution already in the Senate called S. Res. 356. They call it a straightforward and simple resolution, "A resolution affirming that any offensive military action taken against Iran must be explicitly approved by Congress before such action may be initiated."
The group is urging people to tell their Senator to support and fight for S. Res 356: (see: TrueMajority.org)
They say today's story is just the latest to discuss the increasingly belligerent rhetoric of the Bush administration towards Iran.
Just last week, President Bush compared anyone who seeks to negotiate with Iran to those who appeased the Nazis prior to World War II.
Senator Prescott BushThat is crazy talk in the opinion of many; and ironic considering the number of adaptations of Bush with Hitler's mustache that are available in places like Google Images. They are sad and they are rampant and while Bush is obviously not a Nazi, he does share a great many characteristics with Adolph Hitler when you get right down to it, starting with removing the rights of his countrymen and injecting the federal government into our schools for the first time in U.S. history.
It seems like a highly hypocritical statement for any member of the Bush family to call someone else out for having "appeased the Nazis," considering that the President's own grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany,the Guardian UK reported September 25th 2004. (see: How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power)
"The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism." Many other sources have reported the same information.
I could go on, but perhaps these points of the story can better be addressed and discussed in the comment section below.
Iran's President AhmadinejadThe point is that Iran's President tried to communicate to Americans while he was here several months ago, that he does not deny the plight of the Jewish people under the Third Reich, but he recognizes the tragedy of Nazi Germany for all the millions of civilians killed who were and were not Jewish. He does not or at least did not, claim that the Holocaust never happened, as so many agencies like FOX and Rush Limbaugh repeat over and over, that he did.
It seems some recent developments could absolutely be the sign of an upcoming surprise from the Bush Administration over their policy toward Iran. The Navy's 4th Fleet was reactivated in April, (see:U.S. Navy Announces Re-Establishment of U.S. Fourth Fleet) there has been constant posturing over Iran and accusations lobbed on the country which it denies; Iran has stated repeatedly that their only nuclear ambitions are to help supply power for their own nation.
Ilya Sheyman, Online Organizer with TrueMajority.org, said, "We only have a few months until our long national nightmare of the Bush Administration comes to an end. But, it is abundantly clear that they intend on going out with a bang. It's time for the Congress to embrace its role as a co-equal branch of government and stop them before it is too late."
The images in the video below were made available to me by the MySpace friend in Tehran, Iran that I mentioned earlier in the story, who spent a great deal of time assembling this breathtaking collection of photos of Iran that range from sparkling blue tropical water, to arid desert, to brilliant landscapes and dramatic mountains and winter wonderlands.
I must admit that I had no idea what this place looked like, and I also did not know until recently, the history that has led our nations to this point of having such bitter feeling s with Iran. What I learned is that in short; the United States and Great Britain overthrew Iran's government in the early 50's, specifically because Iran wanted to be paid the price for their oil that the U.K. and the U.S. agreed to, but would not pay despite all political and diplomatic protests from Iran's government. (see: Warmongers, Chickenhawks, FOX News and Iran
Our then-government under Eisenhower, teamed up with the British SAS and overthrew Iran's first Democratically elected President not because he was a bad guy, but because he stood up to the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, trying to block them from taking Iran's oil at a rate of profit that was never agreed upon. That's it, just straight and pure greed, once again, based over oil, once again.
Did Paul Harvey ever do this as "the rest of the story"?
Enjoy the video:
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Tim King is a former U.S. Marine with twenty years of experience on the west coast as a television news producer, photojournalist, reporter and assignment editor. Today, in addition to his role as a war correspondent in Afghanistan where he spent the winter of 2006/07, this Los Angeles native serves as Salem-News.com's Executive News Editor. Salem-News.com is the nation's only truly independent high traffic news Website, affiliated with Google News and several other major search engines and news aggregators. Tim's coverage from Iraq that was set to begin in April has been delayed and may not take place until August, 2008. You can send Tim an email at this address: newsroom@salem-news.com
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