| Author | Message | | Alpha | | Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 12:01 pm Post subject: BREAKING NEWS: IRAN TO RESUME ENRICHMENT/RETURN OF DRAFT |
| BREAKING NEWS: IRAN TO RESUME ENRICHMENT/RETURN OF THE MILITARY DRAFT
Just heard on C-SPAN's 'Washington Journal' that Congressman Charlie Rangel has re-introduced his bill (into the House of Representatives) to bring back the military draft (just in time for the coming attack on Iran for Israel!).
Also just heard on C-SPAN's 'Washington Journal' that Iran has put forward a law to the Guardian Council to resume its nuclear enrichment program, and the Guardian Council has 'approved'. This could go to the 'crisis' stage if Iran resumes its nuclear enrichment program (as such a 'crisis' would be right in accordance with Scott Ritter's 'Sleepwalking to Disaster in Iran' article which is linked at the following URL):
JINSA Israel firsters: IRAQ DOWN, IRAN LEFT TO GO:
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/wake-up-america-your-government-is-hijacked-by-zionism/2005/04/06/jinsa-israel-firsters-iraq-down-iran-left-to-go.php
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Iranian hard-liners approve boost to nuclear work
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's hard-line Guardian Council on Saturday approved a law that puts pressure on the government to develop nuclear technology that could be used to build atomic weapons, state run radio reported.
Parliament had passed the bill on May 15 and sent it to the Guardian Council for approval. The council must vet all bills before they become law.
The passing of the law does not force the government to resume uranium enrichment immediately but encourages it to pursue nuclear goals in spite of international pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program.
The law calls on the government to develop a nuclear fuel cycle, which would include resuming the process of enriching uranium — a prospect that has drawn criticism from the United States and Europe because the technology could be used in developing atomic weapons.
Iran suspended enrichment last November under international pressure led by the United States. Iran maintains its program is peaceful and only aimed at generating electricity.
The legislation was viewed as strengthening the government's hand in negotiations with European Union representatives, allowing it to demonstrate domestic pressure to pursue its nuclear program as talks have deadlocked.
Iran agreed Wednesday to meet with European Union negotiators for a new round of talks in the summer.
France, Britain and Germany, acting on behalf of the 25-nation European Union, want Tehran to abandon its enrichment activities in exchange for economic aid, technical support and backing for Iran's efforts to join the World Trade Organization.
The European Union has threatened to take Iran to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions if it again starts uranium reprocessing. Tehran says it won't give up its treaty rights to enrichment but is prepared to offer guarantees that its nuclear program won't be diverted to build weapons.
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JINSA/PNAC Zionist extremist operative Richard Perle calls for invasion of Iran (for his beloved Israel, of course!):
http://gorillaintheroom.blogspot.com/2005/05/perle-calls-for-invasion-of-iran.html
Bush Acted Illegally in Push for Iraq war:
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/wake-up-america-your-government-is-hijacked-by-zionism/2005/05/27/bush-acted-illegally-in-push-for-iraq-war.php
http://gorillaintheroom.blogspot.com
http://nomorewarforisrael.blogspot.com | |  | | Alpha | | Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 6:52 pm Post subject: Iran says US, Israel are the real nuclear threats |
| Iran says US, Israel are the real nuclear threats
Fri May 27, 2005 11:02 PM ET
By Louis Charbonneau
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States and Israel represent the real nuclear threat to the world, not Iran, Tehran's chief envoy to the United Nations said on Friday after an abortive conference on controlling nuclear weapons.
Javad Zarif, Iran's ambassador to the U.N., said the United States never intended to scrap its nuclear arsenal, despite promising to eventually disarm when it signed the 1970 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the landmark arms control pact.
Zarif, in an interview with Reuters, said Israel, which is widely believed to have nuclear weapons, was the threat to the Middle East region. "There is unanimity on the threat that is posed not only by Israeli nuclear weapons but by its aggressive policy (in general)," he said.
Washington is backing efforts by Britain, France and Germany to persuade Tehran to halt its nuclear fuel program, which they fear may be intended to make atomic bombs. Iran denies this, insisting its program is peaceful.
Zarif dismissed as hollow U.S. pledges in 1995 and 2000 reaffirming its commitment to scrap its nuclear arsenal. "The U.S. never had any intention of living up to its commitments under Article 6 of the treaty," he said.
In Article 6 of the NPT the five treaty signatories with nuclear weapons -- Russia, the United States, France, Britain and China -- agreed to eventually disarm.
SMOKE SCREEN
Zarif said U.S. attacks on Iran's nuclear program were a "smoke screen to divert attention from its violations" that included a U.S. willingness "to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear weapon states."
Every five years the 188 members of the NPT meet for a month to review the landmark treaty. The 2005 review ended on Friday without any agreement on how to improve the accord. Many delegates blamed both Washington and Tehran for what they described a failure of the conference to do anything.
Washington worked hard to prevent the conference -- which works by consensus -- from approving any documents that refer to its 1995 and 2000 pledges to disarm, while Iran blocked anything that referred to it as a proliferation threat and NPT violator.
The conference approved a document that merely listed the agenda and the participants.
Egypt also worked hard to prevent any substantive conclusion from the conference when it saw it had no chance of focusing criticism on Israel's assumed atomic arsenal.
"Israel is the threat to the region," he said. "It is one of the great ironies of our age that a country outside the framework of legality in the area of nonproliferation is one of the countries that is the most active participants against Iran," he said.
Like atomic-armed India and Pakistan, Israel has never signed the NPT. It neither admits nor denies having the bomb, Israel is estimated to have some 200 nuclear warheads.
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| http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/052805Z.shtml
Nuclear Talks End in Discord
By Maggie Farley
The Los Angeles Times
Saturday 28 May 2005
The UN conference stumbles over priorities. The US, focused on North Korea and Iran, is criticized over its own weapons stockpile.
United Nations - A monthlong conference aimed at curtailing the spread of nuclear weapons ended in failure Friday after being scuttled by arguments among the United States, Iran and Egypt.
Representatives of more than 150 nations convened at UN headquarters to seek ways to stop more countries from developing nuclear weapons, prevent terrorists from acquiring them, and get a renewed commitment from atomic powers - especially the United States - to significantly reduce their stockpiles.
But strong disagreements over priorities prevented substantive efforts to address the gaps between the world's nuclear haves and have-nots.
The United States tried to keep the focus on alleged nuclear threats from Iran and North Korea instead of its pledges to whittle down its own arsenal. Iran, which contends that its atomic program is strictly for generating electricity, refused to discuss proposals to restrict access to nuclear fuel and objected to being singled out as a "proliferation concern." And Egypt joined Iran in demanding that the conference address Israel's nuclear status and declare the Middle East "a nuclear-free zone." "The conference after a full month ended up where we started, which is a system full of loopholes, ailing and not a road map to fix it," Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told reporters in Vienna as the conference fizzled to a close.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan launched the conference - a review of the 1970 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty - on May 2, telling delegates that "the consequences of failure are too great to aim for anything less" than new measures to curb the spread of nuclear weapons and reduce the number of existing arms. Under the treaty, atomic powers pledged to dismantle their arsenals and transfer nuclear know-how for generating electricity to other nations, in exchange for vows from those countries not to develop nuclear weapons. Reviews of the treaty are held every five years.
But critics say that not only are the nuclear powers not living up to their side of the deal, they are now seeking to restrict sensitive technology that other countries have a right to. The US and some other nuclear powers, however, contend that increasingly stringent rules on transferring technology are needed to keep weapons out of terrorists' hands. Annan said Friday that conference participants had "missed a vital opportunity" to strengthen the world's collective security and urged leaders to take up the issues again at a September summit at the UN
Conference president Sergio de Queiroz Duarte of Brazil acknowledged that "very little had been accomplished," but said the meeting was not a total failure. The month of discussions forced leaders to debate their differences even if they did not solve them, and paved the way for future talks, he said. Asked why the conference collapsed, he responded, "I think you can write several books on that."
A number of diplomats put much of the blame for the deadlock on the United States.
Washington's position has changed since the last conference in 2000, during the Clinton administration. The US has refused to reaffirm the 13 steps toward nuclear disarmament it agreed to in 2000, or allow discussion of Israel's nuclear status.
Israel is widely thought to have nuclear weapons and, along with declared atomic powers India and Pakistan, is not a signatory to the nonproliferation treaty. North Korea withdrew from the pact in 2003 and has declared that it possesses nuclear weapons, though it has yet to test one. Critics pointed out that during the monthlong conference, the White House asked Congress to fund research on a nuclear "bunker-buster" bomb that could destroy buried weapons stockpiles - a move contrary to the treaty's intentions.
"If governments simply ignore or discard commitments whenever they prove inconvenient, we will never be able to build an edifice of international cooperation and confidence in the security realm," the head of Canada's delegation, Ambassador Paul Meyer, said in a speech to the conference. "We believe this is a treaty worth fighting for, and we are not prepared to stand idly by while its crucial supports are undermined."
US negotiators tried to keep the conference focused on how other countries had breached the nonproliferation treaty, and how to stop that from happening again. In particular, it took aim at North Korea and Iran.
Iran has been chastised by the IAEA for not disclosing nuclear activities going back two decades, but inspectors have not concluded that Tehran is trying to build a nuclear bomb. Iran has denied that it has a weapons program.
Jackie W. Sanders, a lead US negotiator at the conference, said Iran's violations were clear-cut.
"Iran's nuclear weapons program, previously shrouded in secrecy and deceit, has been exposed, as have Iran's violations of its IAEA obligations," she said. Sanders demanded that Iran abandon its efforts to enrich and process uranium and dismantle related equipment and facilities, even though Iran has the right to such technology under the 1970 treaty, which it has signed. Enriched uranium can be used as fuel in power plants, or in nuclear bombs. Iran is negotiating with several European countries to freeze enrichment in exchange for a significant package of economic incentives and other benefits.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice did not join other foreign ministers at the conference, an absence seen by many participants as a sign of the Bush administration's diminishing regard for the treaty.
The conference stalemate played out against a long debate in the Senate over the nomination of John R. Bolton to the post of US ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton, the former undersecretary of State for disarmament, has said he sees little value in multilateral pacts and has been pushing unilateral and bilateral tools over the 1970 treaty to stop proliferation. He was an architect of the Proliferation Security Initiative, in which more than 60 countries agreed to stop and search ships suspected of carrying banned materials.
Sanders lauded the initiative and other US efforts to plug the nonproliferation treaty's gaps, citing the Global Partnership of the Group of 8 industrialized nations to halt the spread of weapons of mass destruction, and a Security Council resolution against nuclear terrorism.
The world's preeminent security threat, Sanders said, was nuclear terrorism, fueled by proliferation networks such as the one led by Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, which illegally supplied North Korea, Iran and Libya with nuclear technology.
But Iranian Ambassador Javad Zarif said the greatest threat to global security was from the countries that already have nuclear weapons. The US, he told delegates, had violated the treaty by building new nuclear weapons systems, refusing to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, attacking nonnuclear nations and signing a nuclear cooperation agreement with Israel.
"The extremist attitude reflected in these documents and practices seems to indicate that no lessons have been learned from the nightmares of Hiroshima and Nagasaki," Zarif said. "If history is any guide, nuclear arms are in the most dangerous hands."
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| http://kurtnimmo.com/blog/index.php?p=682
May 29, 2005
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: Suckering the Great Unwashed
Now we’re expected to believe Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is in Iran. “Quoting a senior insurgency commander in Iraq, the Sunday Times said Zarqawi had shrapnel lodged in his chest and may have been moved to Iran. It said his supporters might try to move the Jordanian-born militant to another country for an operation,” reports Reuters.
Is it possible this “senior insurgency commander” is an idiot or possibly a rank amateur? If indeed al-Zarqawi is the “leader” of the resistance, it does not make sense for his top lieutenants to be so thoughtlessly loquacious with the media and admit the wounding of al-Zarqawi and reveal where he is. On the other hand, if al-Zarqawi is not connected to the resistance but is instead a U.S. covert intelligence operation designed to discredit the resistance and convince us they are little more than criminals and sadists (to say nothing of idiots), the United States has done an admirable job—that is, an admirable job served up to those of us who do not pay attention, who have abandoned common sense, and believe everything the corporate media feeds us. As Bush and Crew demonstrated when they fed us a passel of implausible lies in the lead up to the invasion of Iraq, the passive and half-witted American news consumer will believe just about anything, so long as some authoritarian character tells him it is true. It matters not that the Abu Musab al-Zarqawi fairy tale is completely over the top, even surrealistic.
“Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said the report in the Sunday Times newspaper was without foundation,” Reuters continues. “‘This is an unprofessional kind of fabricating news,’ Asefi told a weekly news conference.”
Bingo.
It is obviously fabricated news. It is a transparent effort to finger the Iranians—who figure big, as do the Syrians, who are accused of aiding and abetting the resistance, in Bush’s Strausscon cooked-up plan to “reshape” (through bunker buster and cruise missile) the Muslim Middle East—and make it appear the Iranians support the hobgoblin Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. It does not matter if this makes absolutely no sense (the Iranians would have to be as stupid as the Iraqi resistance to have anything to do with al-Zarqawi) because facts or corroborating evidence of complicity is no longer needed—all it takes is a few declarations from anonymous “senior administration officials” and the fantasy is firmly established as truth. Never mind the conflicting and illogical nature of the al-Zarqawi in Iran story line—viz., as the corporate media keeps telling us, al-Zarqawi has a thing for killing Shi’ites and Iran is a Shi’a Muslim nation. Is there a reason a killer of Shi’ites is allowed refuge in a country teeming with Shi’ites? Does not compute.
“The United States has accused Iran of harboring al Qaeda militants who escaped Afghanistan after U.S. troops invaded in late 2001 following the Sept. 11 attacks,” the Reuters report continues. “Tehran acknowledges that al Qaeda members have managed to cross its long and hard-to-police borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan. But it denies providing safe-haven to al Qaeda members and has extradited scores of suspected militants who have fled to Iran in the last four years.”
In other words, since Iran “harbored” al-Qaeda, it can be assumed it is also harboring al-Zarqawi, even though, as Reuters points out, Iran has extradited “scores of suspected militants” (in other words, nobody knows if they are al-Qaeda or simply garden variety terrorists who have problems with the world’s last super-power invading an enervated—through medieval sanctions and premeditated mass murder—Arab country). In regard to Iran’s porous border, look no further than the U.S.-Mexico border as an example of how difficult it is to patrol frontiers. Don’t expect the corporate media to point this out, though.
“A US State Department report noted recently that Al-Qaeda members had found a ‘virtual safe haven’ in Iran, adding that the country’s long rugged borders were ‘difficult to monitor,’” according to the Sunday Times—that is to say it cannot be satisfactorily verified if al-Qaeda or al-Zarqawi are in Iran or romping at Jojo’s Circus at Disney World.
Of course, as noted above, it does not matter if the entire “virtual haven” story of al-Zarqawi in Iran makes absolutely no sense—to say nothing of the stupidity of the resistance blabbering about its supposed leader in counterproductive fashion, making the egregious (and strategically boneheaded) error of admitting he is wounded—because most Americans, oblivious to reality and enthralled with their dictator (as the German people were enthralled with Hitler—that is until their homes and work places were carpet bombed), will effortlessly swallow it hook, line, and sinker, same as they digested the Saddan and Osama tag team fabrication, or the scary campfire story Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, or the preposterous nonsense that the nine eleven hijackers were Iraqi (in fact, we don’t know who they were, but that’s another story).
Back in 1869, George Hull knew what he was talking about when he declared, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” Hull made the comment in response to the inability of the average person to reason or use logic when confronted with improbable stories—in particular, a hoax perpetuated by Hull and his partner, William Newell, who convinced the public a giant was buried on their land, when in fact the alleged giant was a meticulously constructed statue (Hull sold two-thirds of the interest in the giant for $30,000 to a syndicate that moved the hoax to an exhibition hall in Syracuse, New York, and charged a dollar a head to see it).
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is our “sucker” giant. If George Bush says he exists, well then, he exists—and like simple-minded lemmings we will march right over the precipice, as did the Good Germans and other people who instinctively buy into the lies of authoritarian sociopaths. | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 10:42 pm Post subject: Re: Military Draft |
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Dear [recipient name was inserted here],
Dear Representative Rangel,
IF the idea of resuming a universal military draft is that ALL
Americans are awakened from their deep apathy over the illegal and
unnecessary war in Iraq - then I support your efforts to re-institute a
draft.
IF the idea of resuming a universal military draft is to feed the
'Neo Con' war machine and Bush's empire building - then I am very much
AGAINST your efforts.
We do NOT need more 'cannon fodder'!!
1658 young Americans have died in Iraq with 12,000+ maimed for life -
all because of LIES and DECEPTION by Bush, Cheney, and the Neo Cons who
now control America.
Nixon was forced from office; Clinton was impeached - not either
committed the high crimes that Bush and Cheney have committed.
Bush and Cheney should be IMPEACHED and REMOVED from office - and put
in prison for TREASON - for sacrificing the interests of America for a
foreign country Israel - a country that is much less than our 'friend'.
As a US Representative from New York - I understand that your
continued reelection is dependent upon the Jewish vote - that is NOT an
anti-Semitec comment - just fact.
But - the reality is that Wolfowitz, Perle, Feith, Bolton, Abrams,
etc - ALL led us into war with Iraq in order "to secure the realm for
Israel" - and - they are doing their best to lead us into war with Iran
and Syria for the same reason.
Can YOU look into the eyes of a New York family who has lost a loved
one in the war with Iraq and tell them the TRUTH - your loved one died in
Iraq for the benefit of Israel??
IF a draft will cause ALL Americans to bear the 'costs' of our war
with Iraq - and - cause the American people to rise up and take back our
country from the insane Neo Cons - then - lets have a draft!!
I am NOT one of your constituents - I am a veteran of the Viet Nam
War - I do NOT want to see another black granite wall erected in
Washington with 58,000+ names on it - for a LIE by yet another US
President.
I can tell you this - as soon as Bolton is confirmed as UN Ambassador
- this lifelong Republican will change my registration from Republican to
either Independent or Democrat - Democrat only IF the Party gives me
reason enough??
I can assure you this - I will NEVER again vote for a Republican
Party candidate for any office - as I compare the Republican Party's blind
support of Bush as comparable to the Nazi Party's blind support of
Hitler!!
Sincerely,
Anthony J. Chibbaro | | | | | ©2002-2009 WarWithoutEnd.co.uk |
