posted by Greg Chamberlain
MSNBC's host Dylan Ratigan and Salon columnist Glenn Greenwald challenge a NeoCon, Clifford May, (President of Washington DC's Foundation for the Defense of Democracies) on U.S. interventionism against Iran.
I agree with Ratigan and Greewald and am not in agreeance with the agenda of of Clifford May. It is disturbing to me when everyone from the most lowly pundits to the most well informed journalists continue to proclaim or agree with the notion that the President of Iran said he or Iran wanted or had a desire to wipe Israel off the map. This notion is NeoCon propaganda that even non NeoCons have bought into, hook, line and sinker.
The President of Iran's actual words were, "Imam ghoft een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad".
The full quote translated directly to English is: "The Imam said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time." This one line was only a small fragment of Ahmadinejad's entire speech. That one line has been taken out of context to infer that Ahmadinejad said he wanted to get a nuke and use it to wipe Israel off the map. It's BULL!
The word by word translation in English is: Imam (Khomeini) ghoft (said) een (this) rezhim-e (regime) ishghalgar-e (occupying) qods (Jerusalem) bayad (must) az safheh-ye ruzgar (from page of time) mahv shavad (vanish from).
For the full well researched story on the above quotes by Ahmadinejad which have been taken out of context to justify making him the enemy for war justification by certain U.S. and Israeli interests, please refer to 'Wiped off the Map' – The Rumor of the Century by Arash Norouzi on AntiWar.Com at http://www.antiwar.com/orig/norouzi.php?articleid=11025
This whole idea that Iran wants to be the one that pulls the trigger and wipe Israel off the map is utter nonsense to advance agendas of people like Neocon, Clifford May, and the type of warmongers who steered the U.S. to war in Iraq. Context is everything.
Many seem to forget, or perhaps never actually knew, that the first ever secret CIA led coup to overthrow a foreign leader was when the CIA overthrew the democratically elected President of Iran in 1953. Why? It was because he took back the oil fields from foreign owned firms and nationalized them, therefore, seeing that the oil revenues fully benefited the Republic of Iran and it's citizens.
Here is a video on The Secret Government and the CIA Overthrow of Mossadeq, the first real democratically elected President of Iran.
Just below is another film and perspective about the CIA engineered coup that toppled Iranian President Mossadegh in 1953.
And lastly, I have issues with those who constantly spout off that Iran's President Ahmadinejad is a Holocaust denier and that he is ignorant. Ignorant is something he most certainly is not. He is a scientist, scholar and was a university professor before entering politics. If one objectively listens to the entire interview between MSNBC's Brian Williams and President Ahmadinejad, one may view the above mentioned non truths a bit differently. I've come to the opinion that those who would rather avoid answering the questions that Ahmadinejad poses, such as, "What did the Palestinian people have to do with the Holocaust?", and "Why do the Palestinian people pay for the Holocaust?", are the people propagating these non truths that President Ahmadinejad is a Holocaust denier and that he wants to wipe Israel off the map. There is a deliberate attempt to falsely misuse the Holocaust and the Anti-Semitism card against Ahmadinejad to advance agendas that are anti Palestinian and anti peace for the Middle East for the benefit of Big Oil, Military Industrial Complex and Israeli interests. Please watch this video below between MSNBC's Brian Williams and President Ahmadinejad.
Until Americans understand and challenge our elected leaders as to the real suffering and expense that the Palestinian people have paid for Israel's statehood with massive U.S. financial and military support, as well as the history of U.S./Iranian relations going back long before the hostage crisis of 1979 and understand the true cause of that crisis, America is going to continue on the same wrong and evil interventionist path at too great of an expense of not only human lives, but also at the expense of what is barely left of our failed monetary system and overall economy.
Greg Chamberlain
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Ron Paul on Obama’s Iraq Speech: Mission Not Accomplished
posted by Greg Chamberlain
On Sept 1, 2010, Congressman Ron Paul released the following statement on President Obama’s speech from the Oval Office two nights ago:
“The President’s announcement that all U.S. combat troops have left Iraq is no more believable than the 'Mission Accomplished' declaration was in 2003.
“Once again, we are being told the mission has been accomplished and our brave men and women are coming back home. Though the people are hopeful they remain skeptical, and rightfully so.
“The biggest problem is that success in Iraq is undefinable since the mission was never defined. The reasons given for the invasion were based on misinformation. Now, the war has cost us hundreds of billions of dollars and this has contributed significantly to our economic woes.
“Forty-four hundred Americans are dead, thirty thousand severely wounded, and more than a hundred thousand are suffering from serious health problems related to Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. This alone should tell us that it was not worth the investment and the needless sacrifice of our young people and the taxpayers.
“It is deceitful to imply we will avoid hostilities with this new policy. We still have to contend with:
* the 50,000 troops carrying weapons remain in Iraq
* the 100,000 contractors that remain with more expected to go to Iraq
* the 9,000 special ops personnel trained in assassinations that remain in Iraq
* a huge embassy, bigger than the Vatican, that will remain
* Dozens of military bases that will stay
* Al Qaeda organizations that did not exist before the war
* Muqtada al Sadr, a strong nationalist who has gained much political power
* The fact that Iran benefits tremendously with the Shiites now in power in Iraq and is a close ally of al Sadr
“Osama bin Laden wins by 'proving' that America has an agenda of occupation in the Middle East. And, we continue to walk into his trap and hand him up his best recruitment tool in his efforts to incite hatred and terrorism against the United States.
“What’s worse, President Obama made it clear last night that the troops and resources leaving Iraq will not come home to defend our country or ease our economic woes. They will instead be diverted to Afghanistan, perhaps also Pakistan and, I fear, even Iran.
“From my viewpoint we are the losers in this fool’s errand of endless war. Tragically, this new policy is not one of peace but merely a charade that will severely undermine our national security and continue us down the path to bankruptcy—a threat that we best not long ignore.”
On Sept 1, 2010, Congressman Ron Paul released the following statement on President Obama’s speech from the Oval Office two nights ago:
“The President’s announcement that all U.S. combat troops have left Iraq is no more believable than the 'Mission Accomplished' declaration was in 2003.
“Once again, we are being told the mission has been accomplished and our brave men and women are coming back home. Though the people are hopeful they remain skeptical, and rightfully so.
“The biggest problem is that success in Iraq is undefinable since the mission was never defined. The reasons given for the invasion were based on misinformation. Now, the war has cost us hundreds of billions of dollars and this has contributed significantly to our economic woes.
“Forty-four hundred Americans are dead, thirty thousand severely wounded, and more than a hundred thousand are suffering from serious health problems related to Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. This alone should tell us that it was not worth the investment and the needless sacrifice of our young people and the taxpayers.
“It is deceitful to imply we will avoid hostilities with this new policy. We still have to contend with:
* the 50,000 troops carrying weapons remain in Iraq
* the 100,000 contractors that remain with more expected to go to Iraq
* the 9,000 special ops personnel trained in assassinations that remain in Iraq
* a huge embassy, bigger than the Vatican, that will remain
* Dozens of military bases that will stay
* Al Qaeda organizations that did not exist before the war
* Muqtada al Sadr, a strong nationalist who has gained much political power
* The fact that Iran benefits tremendously with the Shiites now in power in Iraq and is a close ally of al Sadr
“Osama bin Laden wins by 'proving' that America has an agenda of occupation in the Middle East. And, we continue to walk into his trap and hand him up his best recruitment tool in his efforts to incite hatred and terrorism against the United States.
“What’s worse, President Obama made it clear last night that the troops and resources leaving Iraq will not come home to defend our country or ease our economic woes. They will instead be diverted to Afghanistan, perhaps also Pakistan and, I fear, even Iran.
“From my viewpoint we are the losers in this fool’s errand of endless war. Tragically, this new policy is not one of peace but merely a charade that will severely undermine our national security and continue us down the path to bankruptcy—a threat that we best not long ignore.”
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