Prevent Moves toward Iran War

[PaddyMac]

We need to take urgent action to prevent a war on Iran. Today, the Senate will probably vote on a bill that would ruin ongoing European negotiations with Iran. These negotiations are designed to avert war, and they have had several break-throughs lately.

The Senate could vote today or tomorrow, though, to increase sanctions both on Iran and on our European allies who trade with Iran. It also would support "regime change" by funding groups who want to take-over the government in Iran. This would be extremely provocative and probably lead Iran to withdraw from negotiations, paving the way for another disastrous war.

Go here to take action: http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/involved/iran092906.html

Negotiations with Iran are an alternative to war supported by a majority of Americans. Iran has hinted that it would be willing to suspend uranium enrichment during talks.

The Iranians are actually within their rights to enrich uranium under the Non-Proliferation Treaty. It is being monitored by expert inspectors. Iran says it is for peaceful nuclear power rather than a nuclear bomb. Even if they are lying, the CIA says they are five to ten years away from being capable of producing a bomb.

Now is the time for peaceful discussion and negotiation, not war.

Take action today!

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[chill_wind]

2. Welcome to DU.

This thread will probably interest you immediately:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2534654

[nealmhughes]

3. Check out the following: it starts with James Madison and goes into

international links to Monterey Institute of Intl. Studies and Global Research in Canada, as well as Monde Diplomatique. Note that this is not formatted, but some basic research for a blog entry I am working on right now...


"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes...known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. . . No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."

- James Madison, Political Observations, 1795


The separation of the power of declaring war from that of conducting it, is wisely contrived to exclude the danger of its being declared for the sake of its being conducted.

The separation of the power of raising armies from the power of commanding them, is intended to prevent the raising of armies for the sake of commanding them.

The separation of the power of creating offices from that of filling them, is an essential guard against the temptation to create offices for the sake of gratifying favourites or multiplying dependents.

<2> http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/week/040812.htm

A Preemptive Attack on Iran's Nuclear Facilities: Possible Consequences


By Sammy Salama and Karen Ruster
Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterrey Institute of International Studies 12 August 2004, updated 9 September 2004

An attack on Iranian nuclear facilities in Bushehr, Arak, and Natanz, could have various adverse effects on U.S. interests in the Middle East and the world. Most important, in the absence of evidence of an Iranian illegal nuclear program, an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities by the U.S. or Israel would be likely to strengthen Iran's international stature and reduce the threat of international sanctions against Iran. Such an event is more likely to embolden and expand Iran's nuclear aspirations and capabilities in the long term.

<3> http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=DAR20060821&articleId=3027

Iranian War Games: Exercises, Tests, and Drills or Preparation and Mobilization for War?

by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

August 21, 2006


"Instead of waiting while they plot and plan attacks to kill innocent Americans, the United States has taken the initiative to fight back."

However, the report will make uncomfortable reading at the White House, our correspondent says.

In a series of recent speeches, President George W Bush has been portraying the war in Iraq as the central front in the war on terrorism. This report implies while that may be true, that it is a front of America's own making.

In the past, Mr Bush has dismissed such reasoning by arguing that Islamic militants had hated the US long before it invaded Iraq, or even Afghanistan for that matter.


http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/dossiers/iran/

Le Monde Diplomatique, L'Iran relance la production d'uranium enrichi

Time line from


http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2005/02/RAMONET/11885

L'Iran, la cible
Ignacio ramolet
Feb. 2005


http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan05/Selfa0128.htm reprint of article from socialist worker by Lance Selfa "What the US has in store for Iran" cites Walid Charara of le Monde Diplomatique in 2005 saying that the IAEA cannot get the Neocons to stop preaching death to Iran

Writing in Le Monde Diplomatique, Walid Charara explained: “Behind the ideological window-dressing of the new ‘democratic messianism,’ there are two main reasons for the Bush administration’s uncompromising determination. First, there is Iran’s geo-strategic status. It is an independent and middle-ranking regional power that has engaged in military cooperation with Russian and China...his makes it the last bastion still to be holding out against a permanent U.S. takeover of the Middle East. Iran is the last surveying ally in the region of those states and organizations still opposed to Israel.”

In the coming months, we will be subjected to a barrage of scare stories about the Iranian bomb, Iranian backing for terrorism, Iranian support for the resistance in Iraq--even Bush’s delusions about a post-Islamic Republic of Iran. That’s why it will be important to remember the real reasons why the U.S. worries about Iran.

Lance Selfa writes for the Socialist Worker. This article first appeared on the SW website: www.socialistworker.org. Thanks to Alan Maass.

Other Articles by Lance Selfa



AFP "Inspectors have not uncovered any concrete proof that Iran's nuclear program is of a military nature" IAEA 31-08-06