War-mongering with Iran

This is ridiculous. It seems the US Congress, and the Bush administration, is doing all that it can to ratchet up the pressure and tension with Iran. For what purpose? I sure don’t know, unless the greedy ones want to get their hands on that oil, too. Maybe Iraq was not enough. Here is an example of rampant stupidity in how the US Congress is engaging Iran - from June 20, 2007, from a press release from Rep. Kucinich’s office:

No Questions Asked?

Congress Votes to Send the President of Iran Before a United Nations Court
While Refusing a New York Times Translation of the President's Remarks
Office of Rep. Dennis Kucinich, June 20, 2007

Today the House of Representatives passed H. Con.Res.21, a resolution that pressures the United Nations Security Council to charge Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with violating the 1948 Convention on Genocide and the United Nations Charter because of his alleged calls for the destruction of Israel. "There is reasonable doubt with regard to the accuracy of the translations of President Ahmadinejad's words in this resolution. President Ahmadinejad's speeches can also be translated as a call for regime change, much in the same manner the Bush Administration has called for regime change in Iraq and Iran, making this resolution very ironic," Kucinich said. Kucinich attempted to insert into the Congressional Record two independent translations of the speech from The New York Times and Middle East Media Research Institute, which contain significant differences in the translations of the speech compared to the resolution before the House. However, Members objected formally and the attempt was blocked.

….."We must make every effort to ascertain the truth because peace in the world may hang in the balance. The only way to definitively know what President Ahmadinejad meant is for the United States to engage in meaningful, diplomatic relations with the country of Iran."

As usual, Rep. Kucinich ‘gets it’ which is why I support him for President.

Yes, this was a war-mongering move on the part of the US Congress - to ask the UN Security Council to charge Ahmadinejad for calling for the destruction of Israel, when that may not be what he actually said in the first place. When you are translating from one language to another, it is easy to misinterpret what was said, but even if he did say what they claim he said, how is that worse than Reagan’s “evil empire” comment or bush’s comment about the “axis of evil”? Bush followed up on that comment with an invasion and tons of bombing on one of the countries in his axis of evil. And he destroyed the country of Iraq. (He is on his way to destroying Afghanistan also.)

A lot of other things going on are war mongering or threatening in nature to the country of Iran. Meanwhile, Iran has not invaded or bombed another country in 200 years. They may be making weapons and selling them to various people in world, but the US is doing more of that than anybody. To call them out on THAT is pure hypocrisy. But then, so is asking the UN Security Council to charge Ahmadinejad but not Bush – when Bush has said things that are worse, and then committed war crimes on top of that. A war of aggression, as per the Nuremberg Principles, is the worst of war crimes. Here’s some more information on Iran:

Iran Has a Message – Are we listening?

At least twice before, the administration has slapped down such overtures. In late 2001, Iran provided invaluable assistance in stabilizing the post-Taliban government led by Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan, pledging $550 million worth of assistance (about the same amount promised by the United States) at a January 2002 donors' conference. A week later, Bush declared Iran part of the "axis of evil" during his second State of the Union address -- a stinging rebuff that Iranians still talk about bitterly. Then, in the spring of 2003, Iranian officials used their regular Swiss intermediary to fax a two-page proposal for comprehensive talks to the State Department, including discussions of a "two-state approach" to the Israeli-Palestinian issue. That, too, was ignored.

I do not think the Bush administration will attack or bomb Iran in the near future, provided that Iran does not respond violently to the provocations. However, they are in the process of trying to make them weaker and weaker – because they DO want to bomb and invade them one day. And it ain’t for Israel’s sake – it is for the sake of the oil. But they will not do this until Iran is a lot weaker, following what they did to Iraq with the sanctions. This is pure evil.

The picture above is an Iranian stamp of the day that the US military shot down a passenger plane and killed hundreds. There was NO apology from the US for this evil act of terrorism, and no attempts at making amends either.