Later on, Iran was asked by Karzai and Washington to keep a particularly nasty anti-American cleric Gulbiddin Hekmatyar in their country. Washington wanted Iran to keep him close, keep him safe. Tehran agreed, but they asked that Washington not accuse them of harboring terrorists. That would be a pretty nasty trick, don't you think? Ask a country to keep a terrorist under the equivalent of house arrest, and then accuse them openly of supporting terrorists?And:
Bush did so.
Nine days after the May 3rd meeting in which we promised to disarm MEK, terrorist bombings erupted in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The US blamed Iran, and cut off talks. Some other countries tried to get the United States and Iran back to the table but failed.(One other thing I like about this "Bolo" fellow: He has been called a "disinformationist" because he has posted some sensible 911 stuff. Egads -- I just invited another barrage from the CD sickos, didn't I?)
Did you go to the link? Because today, it's clear who did those attacks: al-Qaeda. Hekmatyar's compatriots. Osama's army. The terrorists who attacked us on 9/11.
Not Iran.
As you know, Bush has instituted a new "Shoot first, ask questions later" policy against any Iranians in Iraq thought to be aiding insurgents. Of course, we'll have to take the administration at its word when they say "He was aiding the insurgents," since there will be no trial, no evidence, no nothing.
We've yet to see any proof that Iran has ever aided the insurgency. Our British partners -- who have studied the issue at great length and on the ground -- openly dispute the assertion. Why would the Iranians want to undermine Maliki, who is the most pro-Tehran leader they could hope for? Why would Shi'ite Iran aid either the Sunni rebels or the anti-Tehran Sadrist forces?
Methinks that Bush's actual intent is to kill Iranians on Iraqi soil in the hope of provoking retaliation. Why else would our Commander in Chief place so many ships within range of Iranian missiles?
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The whole history of US relations with Gulbudin Hekmatyar goes back to US support for the mujaheddin fight against the Soviets beginning in 1979 and escalated under Reagan-Bush, and needs to be made widely known to the American public.
The eminent scholar, Alfred McCoy, wrote in his most recently revised edition of his landmark book The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (p. 475): "The CIA ... over the next decade, gave more than half its covert aid to Hekmatyar's guerillas. It was, as the U.S. Congress would find a decade later, a dismal decision. Unlike the later resistance leaders, who commanded strong popular followings inside Afghanistan, Hekmatyar's guerilla force was a creature of the Pakistan military...." McCoy's book also seems to paint a portrait of Hekmatyar as an opium/heroin trafficker as much as a fundamentalist Islamic political agent.
Former FBI translater/whistleblower Sibel Edmonds has indicated the large role of narcotics trafficking in play in our country's supposed "war on terror," and the story of Mr. Hekmatyar just reinforces that view.
The Arab Times had published a few weeks ago that the US would invade Iran by end of March, now it has slipped to end of April per today's article in the Scottish Herald (see below).
of course allowing the Dems to "take back the house and senate" was just a way for the ReThugs to save money on not having to steal elections because Cheney had already planned out the Iran attack early last year. This way they could continue to keep plotting away, "business as usual", and as long as those dastardly "military commissions act" was signed and the Patriot Act was reauthorized, this gives Cheney all the "rights" to take control of this country as a dictatorship. Bush is truly just a figurehead along for the ride, perfect for photo ops while Cheney is the true decider and commander in chief.
some nasty things will happen in March/April and of course the US is goading Iran into war so the neocons/Cheney can make the call to declare martial law in this country.
Who cares about who runs for 2008 when the elections don't matter anyway?
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America ‘poised to strike at Iran’s nuclear sites’ from bases in Bulgaria and Romania
Report suggest that ‘US defensive ring’ may be new front in war on terror.
By Gabriel Ronay
PRESIDENT BUSH is preparing to attackIran'snuclearfacilities before the end of April and the US Air Force's new bases in Bulgaria and Romania would be used as back-up in the onslaught, according to an official report from Sofia.
"American forces could be using their two USAF bases in Bulgaria and one at Romania's Black Sea coast to launch an attack on Iran in April," the Bulgarian news agency Novinite said.
TheAmericanbuild-upalongthe BlackSea,coupledwiththerecent positioningoftwoUSaircraftcarrier battle groups off the Straits of Hormuz, appears to indicate president Bush has run out of patience with Tehran's nuclear misrepresentation and non-compliance with the UN Security Council's resolution. President Ahmeninejad of Iran has further ratcheted up tension in the region by putting on show his newly purchased state of the art Russian TOR-Ml anti-missile defence system.
continued...
Whether the Bulgarian news report is a tactical feint or a strategic event is hard to gauge at this stage. But, in conjunctionwiththebeefingupofAmerica'sItalian bases and the acquisition of anti-missiledefencebasesintheCzech RepublicandPoland,theBalkan developments seem toindicateanewphase in Bush's global war on terror.
Sofia'snewsofadvancedwar preparationsalongtheBlackSeais backed up by some chilling details. One isthesettingupofnewrefuellingplaces for US Stealth bombers, which would spearhead an attack on Iran. "The USAF's positioning of vital refuelling facilities for its B-2 bombers in unusual places, includingBulgaria,fallswithinthe perspective of such an attack." NovinitenamedcolonelSam Gardiner, "a US secret service officer stationed in Bulgaria", as the source of this revelation.
Curiously,thereportnotedthat although Tony Blair, Bush's main ally in the global war on terror, would be leaving office, the president had opted to press on with his attack on Iran in April.
BeforetheendofMarch,3000US militarypersonnelarescheduledto arrive "on a rotating basis" at America's Bulgarian bases. Under the US-Bulgarian military co-operation accord, signed in April,2006,anairbaseatBezmer, a second airfield at Graf Ignitievo and a shooting range at Novo Selo were leased toAmerica.Significantly,lastyear'sbases negotiations had at one point run into difficulties due to Sofia's demand "for advance warning if Washington intends to use Bulgarian soil for attacks against other nations, particularly Iran".
Romania, the other Black Sea host to theUSmilitary,isenjoyingadollarbonanzaasitsMihailKogalniceanu base at Constanta is being transformed into an American "place d'arme". It is alsovitaltotheIranscenario.
Lastweek,theBucharestdaily Evenimentual Zilei revealed the USAF is to site several flights of F-l5, F-l6 and Al0 aircraftattheKogalniceanubase.AdmiralGheorgheMarin,Romania's chief of staff, confirmed "up to 2000 Americanmilitarypersonnelwillbe temporarily stationed in Romania".
InCentralEurope,theCzech Republic and Poland have also found themselves in the Pentagon's strategic focus. Last week, Mirek Topolanek, the Czech prime minister, and the country's national security council agreed to the siting of a US anti-missile radar defence system at Nepolisy. Poland has also agreed to having a US anti-missile missilebase and interceptoraircraft stationedinthecountry.
Russia, however, does not see the chain of new US bases on its doorstep as a "defensive ring". Russia's defence chief has branded the planned US anti-missile missile sites on Czech and Polish soil as "an open threat to Russia".
SergeyIvanov,Russia'sdefence minister,spokemorecircumspectly while emphasising Moscow's concern. Hesaid:"Russiaisnotworried.Itsstrategicnuclearforcescanassureinanycircumstanceitssafety.Since neither Tehran,norPyongyangpossess intercontinentalmissilescapableof threatening the USA, from whom is this new missile shield supposed to protect the West? All it actually amounts to is that Prague and Warsaw want to demonstrate their loyalty to Washington."
Bush's Iran attack plan has brought into sharp focus the possible costs to Central and Eastern Europe of being "pillars of Pax Americana".
I have one question, who the hell does Cheney thinks he is?
I mean the guy acts like no one and I mean no one(not that I think Wolf Blitzer is any kind of real journalist) has the right to question him about anything.
Is he not the one who is still pushing for war with Iraq and the one that leaves the nuclear option still on the table about Iran?
How many people have challenged him after the most arrogant interview any politician has ever given?
Why does he keep getting away with murder?
Is he really that scary?
Do I need to find a hole and hide?
If I hear silence, my worst fears have been realized and I will go looking for a hole.
So please don't be silent, unless you mean it as a warning!
beeta, Cheney is just another idiot. The problem is that the idiots have been put in charge of the country. Proximate cause: the Israeli lobby and the evangelical Christians. Why did these two political forces gain enough power to put idiots in charge? Because America had become a morally and financially bankrupt empire. And why did that happen? Because...
(to be continued.)
Thats the biggest mistake most people make. That Bush/Cheney are idiots and incompetent. They are not. Everything is planned. Study history. Listen to what historian Michael Tsarion has to say about this. His 6 part interview on Red-Ice Radio explains it thoroughly. Check out the archives at redicecreations.com
Thanks for quoting the article, Joseph. Bush seems determined to plunge us further into war. All we can do is keep focusing sunshine on their actions.
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