Real men go to Khuzestan

[donsu]

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HD06Ak01.html


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In the overdrive run-up to the attack on Iraq in 2003, the ultimate neo-conservative mantra was "Real men go to Khuzestan." Indeed, some of of these "real men" may already have been there. The Iranian government is convinced US, British and/or Israeli special ops have been conducted on Iran's western and southeastern borders, at least since early 2005.

Significantly, the new US budget calls for additional funds to special operations and psy-ops (psychological operations) in Iran, in addition to the US$75 million the administration of President George W Bush wants to spend to advance "regime change". For their part, the US marines have commissioned Hicks and Associates, a subsidiary of Science Applications International Corp, one of the biggest US defense contractors and heavily involved in the Iraq invasion, to carry out in-depth research into Iranian ethnic groups.

The ultimate prize is Khuzestan province, where 90% of Iran's oil is located and which provides the country with 80% of its funds from oil production. In January, Tehran announced it had evidence of British special ops and bombings in Khuzestan, starting last year. Two Iranian Arabs were hanged in public for bombing a bank in the provincial capital Ahvaz in January. Three others were executed in a local prison.

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The crucial fact remains that any US interventionist dream of the "real men go to Khuzestan" kind is doomed. It will generate even more passionate Iranian nationalism, not to mention a nationwide and potentially bloody backlash against Arab Iranians, who will then be inevitably regarded as traitors in collusion with the Anglo-Americans.
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the bushmilhousegang wants that oil and will have that oil one way or another.

[TomInTib]

1. This has been bubbling for a while but has garnered no attention

That region is what the Iranian hubbub is all about and always (Shah) has been.

[tabasco]

2. The "real men" dreaming up these plans stay in Washington, D.C.

safe and cozy in their offices.

"Real men" like these are cowards who don't do any of the dying.

A generation ago, "real men" ordered the conquest of Poland and France and attacked the USSR.

What did it do for their country? Destroyed it.

We must rid our government of these cowardly, traitorous tools of the neocon military-industrial complex, before they destroy our nation too.