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looting' would be a more accurate designation), China holds much of our debt paper. So, eat shite, Bushites and Democratic Party colluders! You made this fouled nest. Good luck getting Iran's biggest oil customer to punish Iran.
But why punish Iran? To kill thousands of children, weaken the country, bleed it to death, and soften it up for attack/invasion like the chickenhawks did to Iraq?
Such a gentlemanly "policy."
And why?
Cuz Iran wants nukes like Israel and the U.S. have. If I was Iran, hearing the threats from these parties, I'd want nukes, too.
The US/Bushite/AIPAC/Democratic Party colluders' efforts to paint Iran's leadership as crazy--and lately their hilarious efforts to blame Iran for their highly corrupt, failed policy in Iraq--just don't hold muster. Iran is not crazy. It's hostile to US/Israel, but it's not crazy. And maybe that hostility is well-justified. Who destroyed Iran's democracy in 1954, and inflicted the Iranian people with 25 years of torture and oppression under the horrible Shah of Iran? Who DROVE the Iranians into the arms of the mullahs for protection? The US, UK and Israel! The Iranians certainly remember this, even if most Americans don't. What have we ever done to make Iranians feel secure, or to give them any notion that our intentions are good? Nothing. And so, the fact of the matter is that Iran's leadership would be crazy NOT to seek a nuclear deterrent.
And if a nuclear deterrent is necessary in Iran to insure China's oil supply, China is NEVER going to agree to sanctions of any kind, and, further, China can punish us severely if we harm, attack or invade Iran.
Sometimes I think that all this is is WAR PROFITEERING. Create an "enemy," a "bogeyman," and keep the billions flowing into Halliburton's and other war profiteers' pockets. However, there is considerable evidence, at this point, that, in ADDITION to the trillion dollar-plus thorough looting of our treasury, the Bush/Cheney (and Democratic colluders') goal in Iraq is to keep torturing and killing Iraqis until they sign over their oil rights to U.S. corporations. Instead of creating a sane energy policy here at home--and a sane taxation policy, and a healthy U.S. economic policy based on fair trade at home and abroad--we're going around targeting one country after another for their oil: Iraq, Iran, Venezuela.
Saddam was easiest to demonize. Iran less so. Venezuela not at all. Good, lawful, constitutional government in Venezuela, hugely support by the people, transparent elections--unlike the U.S.--and very popular throughout South America, for its far-thinking ideas of Latin American self-determination and social justice. But the facts don't bother the Bush State Dept. or its lapdog corporate news monopolies. They are preparing for war in the Andes! And so--despite the provable fact that Venezuela is actually a far better democracy than the United States--they relentlessly repeat the Big Lie that "Chavez is a dictator," just like they relentlessly repeated the Big Lie about Saddam and the WMDs. And the facts in Iran also mean nothing to them. As a matter of fact, Iran's government is fairly representative--at least of the male population. We could not tolerate Sharia law, but it nevertheless binds the people there in a sort of communal self-protection against U.S. capitalistic and monarchical Islamic top-down rule, or rule by fatcat sheiks. It is far more democratic than Saudi Arabia or the UAE. Because I am an uppity woman, I would likely have my head chopped off in Iran. Iranian oppression of women is awful. But then... the same is true of Saudi Arabia. So why isn't Bush saber rattling at Saudi Arabia?
Nope, it's the Big Lie again. There is NO EXCUSE WHATSOEVER for the threats against Iran. Slaughtering tens of thousands of women and children, or starving them, is not going to help women's rights. Creating chaos in Iran--looting, gangs, tribal warfare, civil disorder, rapine, millions of refugees--is not going the help women. And the Big Lie and devious and growing Bushite threat against Venezuela (also, Bolivia and Ecuador, allies of Venezuela) is UNCONSCIONABLE. They are planning to destroy a TRUE DEMOCRACY, one of the best in the hemisphere. Their war greed, and disinformation goals, know no limits!
War profiteer greed. Resource greed. They've made an utter disaster of Iraq, out of greed. Now they want to extend that disaster far and wide. China is sitting back, holding most of the cards, and thumbing its nose at the Bushites. The Bushites have to collude on the sly, with Israel--and bully and kneecap whoever they can get their clutches into, for some kind of alliance to weaken and attack Iran, and get control of THEIR oil, in a world that increasingly loathes this country, because of our HORRIBLE Bushite/Democratic Party colluder leadership.
My solution--difficult but doable--is to take the first step back toward democracy here: transparent vote counting. Difficult, because our entire political establishment wants vote counting in extremely insecure and insider hackable voting machines, run on 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by rightwing Bushite corporations. Democrat, Bushite, they're all protecting this STALINIST vote counting system. ("Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." --attributed to Josef Stalin, of the Big Lie.) Doable, because the states and localities STILL (for the time being) control the mechanics of our election system. And, although there is much corruption around these expensive crapass voting systems, the people who are doing it live right down the street--your county registrar--or not that far away, in your state capitol. Ordinary people still have some influence in these venues.
Once we have restored verifiable elections, real reform will begin, because we will have people representing us who were REALLY elected by us.
It's become pretty obvious that we don't have this now. 70% of the American people oppose the Iraq War and want it ended --up from a significant majority way back at the beginning--56% opposed to the Iraq War (Feb. '03). It was to defeat that majority--now an overwhelming majority--that "trade secret" vote counting was devised (in the same month as the Iraq War Resolution, Oct. '02). To begin to reverse the bad fortunes of this country, we need to reverse non-transparent vote counting. Our democratic process--which provides for a change of course, when the country has gone badly wrong--cannot work, until we have restored vote counting that everyone can see and understand. No change of course, and no reform, is possible, without verifiable elections.
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