Imperial America’s Last Gasp: Bomb Iran

Posted on September 16, 2007
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Since 9/11 America has plummeted down the league table of trusted nations. With the war in Iraq having cost some trillion dollars against nil returns from the expected stolen oil revenues, the USA will now enter the phase of terminal decline.

As ever, it will go down with guns blazing, mesmerised by a self-deception that it is God’s chosen country saving the earth from despotism.

The comedy in Britain is that Saatchi & Saatchi are telling us that Gordon Brown is not Flash Gordon. Quite. The tragedy is that America always thinks that its president is a comic book hero and never understands that this makes the citizens cartoon characters.

So, the current master-plan (and there will be no plan B because America always whoops the world’s ass) hatched by George Bush, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice is that they bomb Iran back into the stone age (yawn, don’t they always) and take over the whole Middle East region. (And any other region we damn well choose, asshole!)

The International Herald Tribune:

A debate within the Bush administration is delaying a decision on how aggressively to confront Iran, even as President George W. Bush has begun more explicitly to describe the U.S. military presence in Iraq as part of a broader effort to counter Iran’s influence.

Bush’s language has turned up by another notch the administration’s continuing proxy war with Tehran for supremacy in the Middle East. But some of Bush’s top deputies are still wrangling over whether a diplomatic strategy on Iran that is advocated by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her top aides has any hope of reining in Iran’s nuclear program or prompting a change in Iranian behavior.

With regard to Iraq in particular, Rice’s decision that the United States would participate in talks with Iranian officials prompted second-guessing from more hawkish officials in Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, who pushed for further isolation of Iran. Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, acknowledged in his testimony to Congress last week that the talks had done little to restrain what he called Iran’s “malign” influence.

The Telegraph:

Bush setting America up for war with Iran

Senior American intelligence and defence officials believe that President George W Bush and his inner circle are taking steps to place America on the path to war with Iran, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt.

Pentagon planners have developed a list of up to 2,000 bombing targets in Iran, amid growing fears among serving officers that diplomatic efforts to slow Iran’s nuclear weapons programme are doomed to fail.

Pentagon and CIA officers say they believe that the White House has begun a carefully calibrated programme of escalation that could lead to a military showdown with Iran.

Now it has emerged that Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, who has been pushing for a diplomatic solution, is prepared to settle her differences with Vice-President Dick Cheney and sanction military action.

In a chilling scenario of how war might come, a senior intelligence officer warned that public denunciation of Iranian meddling in Iraq - arming and training militants - would lead to cross border raids on Iranian training camps and bomb factories.

Basically, it means that America will do whatever it takes to provoke a reaction from Iran which can be used to artificially justify war. If this sounds like the tactics of a school bully, that is because it is exactly the same.

So, if you had planned to grow old without having to worry about another world war or the chance of nuclear warheads being hurled around willy-nilly, forget it. With George Bush in charge and America, like a senile ex-Hollywood heart-throb trying to prove its virility, you can expect no good outcomes.

As an aide memoire to Bush and his cronies and because there seems to be a pattern emerging here and everyone knows that Americans cannot even find their own country on a map, here is a list of countries beginning with the letter “I” in case you want to invade them:

ICELAND
INDIA
INDONESIA
IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF (planned)
IRAQ (done)
IRELAND
ISLE OF MAN
ISRAEL
ITALY

You could also add Cote D’Ivoire, but you probably think it is French for fish.


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Greenspan: Bush, Blair Iraq War - Million Die For Oil

Posted on September 16, 2007
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Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, has said that the war in Iraq, propagated and pursued by George Bush and Tony Blair was, after all, and as everyone has always known, about nothing other than exploiting oil reserves.

Africasia.com:

Greenspan memoir links Iraq war to US thirst for oil

Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, for years an inscrutable seer on the economy, is causing a stir by alleging in his new memoir that “the Iraq war is largely about oil.”

Greenspan, who as head of the US central bank was famous for his tight-lipped reserve, is uncharacteristically direct in “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World,” also accusing President George W. Bush of abandoning Republican principles on the economy.

“I’m saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows — the Iraq war is largely about oil,” he wrote in reported excerpts of the book, which is set for release on Monday.

Australia’s Herald Sun:

Greenspan labels oil as prime motive for Iraq war

AMERICA’S elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil. Greenspan, 81, is understood to believe that Saddam Hussein posed a threat to the security of oil supplies in the Middle East.

Britain and America have always insisted the war had nothing to do with oil. President George W. Bush said the aim was to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction and end Saddam’s support for terrorism.

The former Federal Reserve chairman’s book also criticises Mr Bush for not responsibly handling spending and racking up big budget deficits.

“The Republicans in Congress lost their way,” Greenspan writes. “They swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.”

ThinkProgress:

Today on CNN’s Late Edition, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos (D-CA) said he agreed with Greenspan “to a large extent,” adding, “I think it is very remarkable that it took Alan Greenspan all these many years and being out of office for stating the obvious.” Watch it:

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Transcript:

BLITZER: Alan Greenspan has a new book that has just come out, Chairman Lantos, entitled, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World, in which he makes a very, very sharp charge about the war in Iraq. I’ll read it to you: I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows. The Iraq war is largely about oil. Do you agree with him?

LANTOS: To a very large extent I agree with him, and I think it is very remarkable that it took Alan Greenspan all these many years and being out of office for stating the obvious. It is self-evident that this administration would not have taken the position it has had it not been for the oil issue.

The Guardian:

Greenspan’s damning comments about the war come as a survey of Iraqis, which was released last week, claims that up to 1.2 million people may have died because of the conflict in Iraq - lending weight to a 2006 survey in the Lancet that reported similarly high levels.

More than one million deaths were already being suggested by anti-war campaigners, but such high counts have consistently been rejected by US and UK officials.

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The Lancet survey was criticised by some experts and by George Bush and British officials. In private, however, the Ministry of Defence’s chief scientific adviser Sir Roy Anderson described it as ‘close to best practice’.

You could always say, why believe Alan Greenspan? Are you going to believe Bush and Blair? Well, are you?


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Even Australians Hate Bush

Posted on August 30, 2007
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As George W Bush limps off the world stage, followed by boos and catcalls and people throwing rotten eggs and tomatoes, even the normally laid-back Australians admit that they hate his guts as much as the rest of the world.

Monsters and Critics puts it most succinctly:

Sydney - Almost three-quarters of Australians don’t like US President George W Bush and more then 60 per cent don’t agree with American foreign policy, according to a poll by a Sydney think tank that was released Thursday.

But only 20 per cent of those polled by the Lowy Institute for International Policy said it was the Americans themselves that made them dislike the country. The remainder were favourably disposed to the citizens of the world’s most powerful nation and Australia’s formal military partner.

The poll came out days before Bush was expected in Sydney to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders’ summit.

Bush is due to arrive Tuesday night and leave the night before the traditional Sunday leaders’ retreat that ends the annual gathering of the 21-member grouping.

It would be Bush’s second visit to Australia.

The general sentiment towards George Bush in the world seems to be: “Do you have to cling on for another year? Why don’t you just fuck off now, you loser?”


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