"Party Like It's 1991"
By Peter Chamberlin
09 September,
2008
Countercurrents.org
Cheney's special brand of insanity seeks to return the world to 1991, where he left it, while serving under the first bloodthirsty Bush as Sec. Defense. He commissioned the new Defense Planning Guidance package from Wolfowitz when George Bush I refused to move on Saddam Hussein and to take military advantage of the broken Soviet empire. This is the moment he has been planning for since then, taking over the entire Middle Eastern region.
The criminal insanity of these continuous attempts to bring American dominance to the region by force should be apparent to anyone who cares to look. Americans, who call themselves patriots, should be outraged by these ongoing plans. If we do not rise-up en masse to oppose these retrograde policies to take our country back in time to a more dangerous age then we will prove to the world that they have all been right about us, that we will not get off our lazy fat asses for any reason. They are right to hate us because of what we have allowed to be done to our fellow man, while we watched tv in luxury, sated on the meager existence we managed to obtain, all financed with borrowed money.
We have a small window open before us, to use our Constitutional rights to block the American war upon the world from escalating to the next stage. If we cannot make an effort to create our own "revolution" named for some flower, then war and martial law will be our new reality, wherein only real revolution will stand a chance to stop the war machine.
We have the obvious timeframe of the national elections we have to work in, but we also have another equally important window open, to stop the passage of the "Iran War Resolution," where 265 Congressmen and 49 Senators are co-sponsoring a bill which calls for a military blockade of Iran and a no-fly zone over Iran, both acts of war. Even though the Senate version now claims that "nothing in this resolution shall be construed to authorize the use of force against Iran," it calls for actions that can only be taken by military force.
This disclaimer that Congress is calling for "non-violent" violence was added after the American people began to make Congressmen feel the heat for authorizing war against Iran. Congressmen began to waver once signs began to appear that the people might hold them accountable for their support of the AIPAC-written war bill. The bill was slowed-down from the fast track to passage it was on when the people reminded their Congressmen that legally, they were supposed to answer to us, not Israel. Now is the time to increase that heat, before it can be rushed through both houses.
Senate Resolution 580 is the refined version of the AIPAC-written war bill. I have attempted to dissect some of the greasier pieces of crap contained within it for you below. Following my criticism of the war bill is a list of all co-sponsors of both bills and the names of the people running against them on November 4, written in red. Every patriot should help those running against these traitors.
In addition, I refer to my "Protest Plan PDF Form" for contact information for the home offices of these Congressmen, as well as the Israeli embassies in the US and the world, for organizing protests against Israel's war plan for America. If you can't take to the streets, then send a letter or an email, or make a couple of phone calls to these jerks and tell them that you hold them responsible for all that Bush has done and is doing to protect Israel from the world it has angered. Let them know how you feel.
SRES 580 is the same B.S. written down in House Res. 362.
Whereas for nearly 20 years Iran had a covert nuclear program, until the program was revealed by an opposition group in Iran in 2002;
All available evidence on Iranian nuclear intentions is unreliable, as it comes directly from the Israeli Mossad, who pass it on to the Iranian terrorist organization MEK (Mujahedeen-e-Khalq), who then pass it on to Israel's neocon friends in America. This terrorist organization (which the Iraqi government is expelling from its sanctuary) uses "intelligence" produced by an American-compromised puppet secret service to prove what Israel thinks that Iran thinks.
The next "evidence" cited by the Senate neocons to prove that the Iranians are working on a nuclear bomb is a list of components in any elemental atomic industry or research:
importation of uranium hexafluoride, the construction of a uranium enrichment facility, experimentation with plutonium, the importation of centrifuge technology and the construction of centrifuges
At the end of that list is a reference to a CIA-doctored bomb design which they introduced into the Middle East to discredit Islamic nations:
the importation of the design to convert highly enriched uranium gas into a metal and to shape it into the core of a nuclear weapon
SRES 580 claims that Iran cannot produce enough bomb-grade uranium before the end of 2009, yet this resolution seeks to authorize a military blockade, banning the importation of refined petroleum products to Iran, among other measures. (Probably including the proposed no-fly zone over Iran called for in H. RES. 362), even though they added the disclaimer that nothing in this resolution shall be construed to authorize the use of force against Iran (even though military force is the only possible way to embargo gasoline).
Whereas allowing the Government of Iran to obtain a nuclear weapons capability would pose a grave threat to international peace and security. The fear is that a nuclear-armed Iran would use its nuclear threat to intimidate its neighbors, much the same as nuclear-armed Israel does today.
Whereas allowing the Government of Iran to obtain a nuclear weapons capability would fundamentally alter and destabilize the strategic balance of power in the Middle East. The Middle East is already destabilized by American and Israeli aggression in the region. The fear is that neither Israel nor the US would be able to continue their rape of weaker Middle Eastern nations.
Whereas allowing the Government of Iran to obtain a nuclear weapons capability would severely undermine the global nuclear nonproliferation regime that, for more than 4 decades, has contained the spread of nuclear weapons. The United States and its allies are most responsible for the spread of nuclear technology throughout the world. The US gave Iran its first reactor. Nuclear weapons spread from the US to its most important allies. All nukes are based on American "know-how."
Whereas
the Government of Iran has repeatedly called for the elimination of
our ally, Israel. Iran has never called for the elimination of Israel,
even though many Israeli officials have openly called for the "Shoah"
(destruction) of Iran.
Whereas the Government of Iran has advocated that the United States
withdraw its presence from the Middle East. I also whole-heartedly
endorse the idea of the United States withdrawing all of its forces
from the Middle East.
SRES 580 Last Action:Jun 2, 2008: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. This bill is in the first step in the legislative process. Introduced bills go first to committees that deliberate, investigate, and revise them before they go to general debate. The majority of bills never make it out of committee. Keep in mind that sometimes the text of one bill is incorporated into another bill, and in those cases the original bill, as it would appear here, would seem to be abandoned. [Last Updated: Aug 30, 2008]
H. RES. 362 Last Action: May 22, 2008: Referred to the House Committee
on Foreign Affairs. This bill is in the first step in the legislative
process. Introduced bills go first to committees that deliberate,
investigate, and revise them before they go to general debate. The
majority of bills never make it out of committee. Keep in mind that
sometimes the text of one bill is incorporated into another bill,
and in those cases the original bill, as it would appear here, would
seem to be abandoned. [Last Updated: Aug 29, 2008]
CO-SPONSORS OF "IRAN WAR RESOLUTION" SENATE AND HOUSE AND THEIR OPPONENTS IN NOVEMBER
