Feb. 27, 2007:
Claim of Iranian weapons in Iraq further debunked| |
Excerpt: Two weeks ago, the Bush administration organized an intelligence briefing for journalists in Iraq to demonstrate that Iran was providing weapons to Iraqi insurgents. According to the anonymous briefers, the weapons -- particularly explosively formed penetrators or E.F.P.s -- were manufactured in Iran, ... a fact that meant direction for the operation was “coming from the highest levels of the Iranian government.” ...
A raid in southern Iraq on Saturday seems to have complicated the case. There, The Wall Street Journal reports, troops "uncovered a makeshift factory used to construct advanced roadside bombs that the U.S. had thought were made only in Iran." ... The New York Times reports ... the finding of "cardboard boxes of the gray plastic PVC tubes used to make the canisters. The boxes appeared to contain shipments of tubes directly from factories in the Middle East, none of them in Iran." |
Feb. 21, 2007:
Iran offers to consider nuclear freeze| |
Excerpt: Iran's chief nuclear envoy said Tuesday his country wants to negotiate over its uranium enrichment program, on the eve of a U.N. Security Council deadline that carries the threat of harsher sanctions...But the officials did not offer what the Security Council is demanding -- an immediate and unconditional stop to enrichment. Iran has long insisted that it will not stop its nuclear activities as a condition for negotiations to start...Iran's senior nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani was even more direct in rejecting an enrichment freeze as a precondition for negotiations in talks with [the International Atomic Energy Agency's] ElBaradei, according to diplomats familiar with the substance of their conversation. The diplomat said Larijani told ElBaradei that Iran could consider an enrichment freeze only as a result of talks -- and not before sitting down at the negotiating table.
Comment: This bears repeating, because you won't hear it put this way in the mainstream American press:
Iran is offering to sit down with the U.S. and talk about ending its nuclear program.
It is merely refusing to end its nuclear program before any negotiation or diplomacy has taken place, refusing to simply obey what the U.S. has ordered it to do so.
The U.S., on the other hand, is unwilling to negotiate unless Iran does everything we tell it to do before we start negotiating.
But remember, the Iranians are the ones acting irrationally. |
Feb. 3, 2007:
Still no evidence to back Bush-Cheney claims on Iran
Sept. 14, 2006:
UN says US report on Iran nuclear program is a big lie
Aug. 24, 2006:
Republicans pressure intelligence agencies to justify attack on Iran
March 31, 2006:
U.N. nuclear chief says Iran is no threat, shouldn't be sanctioned
March 13, 2006:
Bush blames Iran for Iraqi resistance ... but there's
no proof of Iran's involvement, says Chair of US Joint Chiefs
Aug. 23, 2005:
US gov't experts debunk evidence
of Iranian nuclear weapons program
Aug. 2, 2005:
Iran is ten years from nuclear bomb,
say US experts, contradicting Bush
Nov. 14, 2004:
U.S. wildly overstated foreign fighter numbers in Iraq
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The Bush-Cheney administration has told us that Iran presents some clear and present danger to America -- while every source un-connected to the White House says that just ain't true.
We're supposed to trust Bush and Cheney, after they've told us nothing but lies all these years?
After they've told us that anyone who leaks a CIA agent's identity would be fired from this administration?
After they've told us they had no advance warning of a terrorist plot against America in the summer of 2001?
After they've told us that nobody anticipated the breech of the levees in New Orleans?
After they've told us that Saddam Hussein was connected to 9/11 (alternating with lies that nobody ever said that)?
After they've told us that "the smoking gun could come in the form of a mushroom cloud"?
After they've told us that Donald Rumsfeld was doing a fine job?
After they've told us America was winning in Iraq, making great progress in Iraq, and that the bad news from Iraq is all the fault of negative media?
After they've told us that the prisoners on Guantanamo aren't prisoners, that they've been treated well, that "We do not engage in torture"?
After they've told us that the US has disrupted numerous terrorist plots against America, but every time they mention anything specific, it's a lie?
After they've told us that seemingly every Muslim captured or killed is the number three man in al Qaeda?
After they've told us that reporting the news when they break the law imperils national security?
After they've told us that warrantless monitoring of your every phone call, email, and bank transaction has something to do with an alleged war on terror?
After they've told us that Social Security is nearing a meltdown?
After they've told us that the Clean Air Act cleans the air?
After they've told us that "Leave No Child Behind" has accomplished something worthwhile?
And now we're supposed to ignore all the evidence and simply trust Bush and Cheney, as they march America into yet another war, yet another quagmire?
Do they take us for fools?
And is that -- taking us for fools -- going to be the one thing Bush and Cheney are right about?
--Helen & Harry Highwater, Unknown News
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