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sintax Donating Member (891 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 03:16 PM
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Why Iran Will Lead to World War 3
Why Iran will lead to World War 3

by Mike Whitney

August 9, 2005

"As President Bush scans the world's horizon there is no greater potential flashpoint than Iran, the President and his Foreign Policy team believe the Islamic regime in Tehran is actively pursuing nuclear weapons." Chris Wallace, FOX News 

The facts about Iran's "alleged" nuclear weapons program have never been in dispute. There is no such program and no one has ever produced a shred of credible evidence to the contrary. That hasn't stopped the Bush administration from making spurious accusations and threats; nor has it deterred America's "imbedded" media from implying that Iran is hiding a nuclear weapons program from the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency). In fact, the media routinely features the unconfirmed claims of members of terrorist organizations, like the Mujahedin Klaq, (which is on the State Depts. list of terrorist organizations) to make it appear that Iran is secretively developing nuclear arms. These claims have proved to be entirely baseless and should be dismissed as just another part of Washington's propaganda war. 

Sound familiar? 

Iran has no nuclear weapons program. This is the conclusion of Mohammed el-Baradei the respected chief of the IAEA. The agency has conducted a thorough and nearly-continuous investigation on all suspected sites for the last two years and has come up with the very same result every time; nothing. If we can't trust the findings of these comprehensive investigations by nuclear experts than the agency should be shut down and the NPT (Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty) should be abandoned. It is just that simple. 

That, of course, is exactly what the US and Israel would prefer since they have no intention of complying with international standards or treaties and are entirely committed to a military confrontation with Iran. It now looks as though they may have the pretext for carrying out such an attack. 

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=WHI20050809&articleId=825



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H5N1 Donating Member (777 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 03:35 PM
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1. That is an awesome piece
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BillZBubb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 03:51 PM
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2. Well, we can't just sit back and wait for a Mushroom Cloud!
Do we really want to take that chance? We need to invade Iran now. Then there might be a mushroom cloud from Syria, so we need to invade them too. North Korea, yep, they're next. Pakistan has the bomb and they aren't too reliable. Put them next on the list. Rumors on the Internets say that Israel has the bomb, just in case, we'd better take them out. Some of the old Soviet Republics have a lot of nuc-u-lar stuff too. Let's clean them up while we're at it. Bring 'em on!

Spreading freedom the Neo-con way!
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wli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 06:45 PM
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3. don't let the smoking gun be a mushroom cloud: impeach Bush now!
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