Operation Iranian Liberation
Are you enjoying the extra 20 to 25% tacked on the price of a gallon of gas because of the threats against Iran? Will you enjoy the doubling or tripling of the price if Iran is attacked? How about the further doubling or tripling when Iran responds by halting shipping through the Strait of Hormuz?
In Washington Post Hits Blair Over Iran Split Taylor Marsh, writing at Fire Dog Lake, notes that the WaPo thinks Tony Blair is a total wimp for not submitting to the whims of the Shrubbery.
The newly elected prime minister of Italy, Romano Prodi, is pulling troops out of the “Coalition of the Clueless”; so don’t expect to see troops from countries that the majority of Americans can find on a map.
Everyone needs to read the well-linked and documented Wikipedia entry on Iran’s nuclear program. You will learn that Iran is in compliance with the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and has the right to enrich uranium under the treaty. Iran, unlike the United States-Indian agreement just completed, is not breaking any rules, nor has the IAEA accused it of any violations.
I would also point out that the US, Germany, and France owe Iran billions of dollars for equipment that Iran paid for, but was never delivered. When the Shah was removed the delivery of equipment for Iran’s nuclear program was stopped, but no one has even suggested that any of the countries was going to return the money to the government of Iran.
The situation is identical to the Iraqi WMDs: Iran is being required to prove a negative, that it doesn’t have a nuclear weapons program.
Just as they had helped Saddam get WMDs, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz were prime movers under the Ford administration for an Iranian nuclear program.
Update: Natasha at Pacific Views has pictures of what they want to nuke.
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I expect to wake up any morning now to hear we – no, THEY – have initiated some sort of Shock and Awe. I expect the first strike in the middle of the night this time – sort of like a recess appointment.
I want impeachment to be brought immediately on that news. Impeaching him and shipping him to the International Criminal Court would be the only possible action that might save the country.
Use of the most devastating weapons in America’s arsenal in a pre-emptive strike without consulting Congress… not merely informing them, but seeking their declaration of war, as the Constitution requires… surely must be an impeachable offense. Of course, by then, it will be too late; if Bush would do that, there’s nothing he wouldn’t do.
Thanks for the link to Natasha’s excellent post. Reading it made me sad beyond words at the prospect of what my country may do.
Before Jesus there was Moses, before Moses there was Abraham, and Abraham came out of Iraq. Much that is the basis of “Western Civilization” is rooted in Iraq.
We used the site of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon as a helicopter pad and parking lot. We filled sand bags with artifacts of one of the most important sites in our history.
These people don’t understand the structure of the Iranian government and how limited the power of the President of Iran really is.
Attacking Iran without a “smoking gun” will be a crime against civilization. These people are a horde more destructive than anything ever seen before.