Saturday, September 13, 2003
History repeats itself, again. The US and the UK are pressing Iran via the UN over nuclear weapons. It's got 45 days to explain exactly what it's doing in possible attempts to build a nuclear weapon. Military action is unlikely, what with the army's of both countries tied up in trying to kill the Iraqi population, but sanctions may be levied. This has got to be opposed. We cannot bring in sanctions against a country that is no current threat to the Western World, starve it for a decade so that when Jeb Bush decides to buy the White House in a decade he's got his own beaten country to invade.
The events of the summer have shown that Bush and Blair either lied about the danger to the West from Saddam Hussain (as evidenced by Tony trying desperately to make it all about the people of Iraq dying under Saddam's cruelty (but not that decade of UN sanctions)) or, if you want to be fairer to them than they deserve, were misled by intelligence reports. So when Bush tells us that sanctions against the people of Iran are necessary in The War Against Terror, just as it was necessary to invade Iraq and Afghanistan because a group of Saudis attacked the United States, how many times are people going to listen to this before thery stand up and say "bollocks!"?
The events of the summer have shown that Bush and Blair either lied about the danger to the West from Saddam Hussain (as evidenced by Tony trying desperately to make it all about the people of Iraq dying under Saddam's cruelty (but not that decade of UN sanctions)) or, if you want to be fairer to them than they deserve, were misled by intelligence reports. So when Bush tells us that sanctions against the people of Iran are necessary in The War Against Terror, just as it was necessary to invade Iraq and Afghanistan because a group of Saudis attacked the United States, how many times are people going to listen to this before thery stand up and say "bollocks!"?
