FROM CANADA: IS YOUR ENTIRE COUNTRY ON CRACK??

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" Arlene Montemarano " <mikarl

Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:41:03 -0400

FROM CANADA: " IS YOUR ENTIRE COUNTRY ON CRACK?? "

 

 

 

 

Is Your Entire Country On Crack?

 

By Den Vandron

ALSO AVAILABLE ON THE FOLLOWING URLS:

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 bastard, 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?