For years right wing extremists have been bucking to have a confrontation with Iran. Had McCain won the election we’d likely be at war with them now, or at least making a military stand. It’s no surprise he now calls on Obama to publicly give America’s official support to the uprising in Iran. But as Obama has explained, doing so would exacerbate the problem and motivate the Iranian government to cite America as the force behind the uprising.
Interestingly, it may well be a fact that America is the force behind the uprising. Maybe not Obama. But America is a complicated place these days. We “elected” a president twice under highly questionable circumstances, a corrupt Supreme Court, corrupt election officials, a governor of Florida who used his authority in miscounting votes to see that his brother was elected, and hacked election machines in at least two recent presidential elections. We committed an illegal international act in a preemptive war, a racist genocidal war with a military that dehumanizes all Muslims, disdainfully calling them “Hajjis” as a matter of policy to better help our troops deal with killing innocent people. These are facts reported by veterans in the Winter Soldier testimonies.
Then there’s America’s example of free enterprise, or as it’s better known, the socialist corporate welfare state. In America the biggest banks and auto companies are goverment owned, at least in part. Government officials are bought and paid for by corporations like the military industrial complex, which could sure use another war in Iran. Bush and Cheney immediately upon taking office in 2000 changed laws so that the monopolistic energy industry, with Enron as it’s poster boy, was given great tax breaks (Worse Than Watergate, John Dean, Warner Books 2005, p75-76)
So now McCain and others cry to Obama to stand up to Iran and tell them how to run a “democratic” election? What a comedian. We’ve got some cleaning up to do before we can go around telling people how to be a democracy.
But how is America behind the uprising? With all the right wing sentiment and misplaced power, likely in places like the military, Wall Street, corporate America, and the CIA (who have fronted for the corrupt Bush and Cheney regime) it’s not much of stretch to consider that the Iran uprising was indeed orchestrated by these underground right wing U.S. powers. Pakistan Daily reports in two separate articles, and you won’t find this in the U.S. corporate media:
CIA has Distributed 400 Million Dollars Inside Iran to Evoke a Revolution.
Former Pakistani Army General Mirza Aslam Beig claims the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has distributed 400 million dollars inside Iran to evoke a revolution. In a phone interview with the Pashto Radio on Monday, General Beig said that there is undisputed intelligence proving the US interference in Iran. “The documents prove that the CIA spent 400 million dollars inside Iran to prop up a colorful-hollow revolution following the election,” he added.
Pakistan’s former army chief of joint staff went on to say that the US wanted to disturb the situation in Iran and bring to power a pro-US government. He congratulated President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his reelection for the second term in office, noting that Pakistan relationship with Iran has improved during his 4-year presidency.
“Ahmadinejad’s re-election is a decisive point in regional policy and if Pakistan and Afghanistan unite with Iran, the US has to leave the area, especially the occupied Afghanistan,” Beig added.
So then Ahmadinejad’s re-election is a threat to America’s war machine?
You mean they might stop us from bombing Afghanistan? The CIA will have none of that.
US Official: The CIA bribed Iranian government officials, businessmen, and reporters, and paid Iranians to demonstrate in the streets
Stephen Kinzer
[...] Jon Raymond quotes the Pakistan Daily in his kookie rant based in fear of a neocon plot; More evidence of orchestration is provided by the protesters
You know, it does raise the basic question. Do you want Iran supporting Al Qaeda with weapons? Are you in support of wiping Israel off the map? Our do you suppose that if we all close our eyes, hold hands and sing Kumbaya my Lord it will all just go away?
What makes you think a U.S. puppet dictator will be any better? The reality is that we don't know the future, nor should we make decisions for the Iranian people based on conjecture. We have a problem with democracy in the U.S. Who are we to judge and occupy the world? It's there country. Let them fix it. Didn't we learn enough from Iran and now Iraq? Is Iraq a bastion of democracy by our occupation? Go live there if you like it so much.
Then there's all that lovely oil. Makes your mouth water, I bet.
You accused me leaving out inconvenient facts yet you call it the Nixon-Iran Shah debacle? How deeply do you have to drink of the koolaid to ignore that Carter was President, the Democrats controlled both houses of Congress in 1979? You're nothing but a partisan hack shilling for your share of Skittles and rainbows.
Oh no….not the old “protect Israel” violin! The translation was always wrong but the Western media won't change it: Ahmadinnejad said, the Israeli regime should be erased from history. Regime…not the country or the people. However, the Jewish lobby, fully aware that Israel has nuclear weapons, has great interest in wiping Iran “off the map” ( originally an expression used by a Jewish Zionist ) and has asked Washington for permission to do so twice. They are the ones who benefit most – destabilizing and destroying the Middle East so they can be left alone to continue seizing land that is not theirs.
John McCain is also a very good politician. he did not win because the people are not satisfied on the Republicans.`;’
the oil spill in Mexico would surely be one of the greatest environmental disasters for this year.~-,
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John McCain is a great politician, perhaps better than Barack Obama.’;