SO CALLED NEWS ASSUMES ATTACKS ON IRAN VIRUTALLY INEVITABLE

It really sucks to see the one and only supper power prepare to destroy yet another nation. Iraq has been converted into a
cauldron of warring factions and one to two million dead Iraqis during the most recent era of United States beneficence. Now Iran, once the fortunate beneficiary of an Anglo-American imposed dictator, the shah of iran, broke out from under their domination in 1979-80.

Unfortunately the Iranian revolution went islamic. Still, that is no reason to invade Iran. There is no good reason to invade Iran but there will be a lot of lies. The big propaganda now being that such a war is inevitable, the inevitable result of Iranians not being something the thugs in the White House say they ought to be.

So the United States has created something like a failed state or a mega-Lebanon in Iraq. This is nothing to boast about but
General Petraeus and his Commander-in-Chief like happy talk. They tell us happy stories while Mr. Bush hopes to distract from the
debacle by creating another war. This time the scenario will be more absurd and surreal than the last brutal invasion.

So is the French government going to be one of the diplomatic enablers of the war against Iran? Or is this a story that distorts the French position? I don't know. Clearly phrases like "right to the end" suggest an inevitable outcome.

I think the bombardment of Iran would be a crime very much like the recent invasion of Iraq, a crime that breaks the peace and
carries out crimes against the population of Iran. What is the United States going to do now, reduce another advanced muslim country to rubble?

Obviously Bush/Cheney should be prevented from committing these crimes. Impeachment might trim their authority and sideline their ambitions to make another imperialist war. Are those who oppose impeachment telling us they want this war?

If Congress allows yet another war of aggression to go forward then it is difficult to point to any part of the Federal Government that represents the interests of the American people.


BBC NEWS
France warning of war with Iran
French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner says the world should prepare for war over Iran's nuclear programme.

"We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war," Mr Kouchner said in an interview on French TV and radio.

Mr Kouchner said negotiations with Iran should continue "right to the end", but an Iranian nuclear weapon would pose "a real danger for the whole world".

Iran has consistently denied it is trying to acquire nuclear weapons but intends to carry on enriching uranium.

Mr Kouchner also said a number of large French companies had been asked not to tender for business in Iran.

EU sanctions

"We are not banning French companies from submitting. We have advised them not to. These are private companies."

"But I think that it has been heard and we are not the only ones to have done this."

He said France wanted the European Union to prepare sanctions against Iran.

"We have decided that while negotiations are continuing to prepare eventual sanctions outside the ambit of UN sanctions. Our good friends, the Germans, suggested that," he said.

Until now the Security Council of the United Nations has imposed economic sanctions on Iran, but did not allow for military action.

The United States has not ruled out a military attack against Iran to prevent it from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/6997935.stm

Published: 2007/09/16 19:29:25 GMT

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