By Manila Ryce
Published Tuesday, December 4th, 2007, 2:58 am
Filed under: World: Asia, World Issues, US Politics

One Response to “Yeah, We Told Ya So”

1. Yeah, I don’t really get it man. Is George smoking crack or shooting heroin, because that’s the only way I could explain someone being that divorced from reality…
   Seriously, I’ve shouted my opinion all over the place, and I know I’m preaching to the chior on your site JW, but fuck it, I just want to spell it out for all the war hungry, trigger happy crowd that might accidentally stumble across this page. Here is the list of reasons not to bomb Iran (including the shiny new one this week):
   1 - NIE reports that Iran has not been pursuing material for nuclear weapons since 2003
   2 - Even if they were intel reports suggest that by 2010-2015 they would have enough material to for a bomb (now pay attention to point 3 because if we tie in point 2 we have the most substantial argument yet).
   3 - Rhetoric around the arguments for bombing Iran are based upon comments (which may have been misinterpretted) made current President Mahmoud Ahme-what’s-he-had-for-dinner-jad. This current president was voted in August 2005 on a platform of reducing government corruption and providing jobs for the Iranian people. This is something he has failed to live up to, probably because he’s too busy confronting the rest of the world in an aggressive manner and cracking down on the rights of his people rather than serving the people of his country… hey that sounds familiar to another president I know. Anyway, last year we saw the mid-term elections in the US, and this year we saw another mid-term election of sorts. The local council elections and elections for the Supreme Council in Iran. The votes went heavily against Ahmedinejad’s camp. The tide is turning against him, and with another election due in 2009, it does not seem as if he will make a second term… well, unless we bomb Iran, bolster the fundamentalist and anti-Western elements in the country and hand him the election, and then we’ll be back in 1979 for the Iranians. I don’t usually like using capitals, but I really want this point to sink in: IRAN IS A FUCKING DEMOCRACY!!! IF YOU CHAMPION THE FUCKING CAUSE OF DEMOCRACY, THEN YOU HAVE TO GIVE IT A CHANCE TO WORK BEFORE YOU SUBMIT TO A MILITARY SOLUTION!!!
   4 - The public perception in the West of Iran is often based on media images of crowds burning US and Israeli flags after Friday prayers. Well, a newspaper in Iran conducted a survey showing that only 1% of Iranians attend Friday prayers. To show that I am providing an actually fair and balanced view on Iran, I will conceed that this paper was shut down following the publication of this survey. But we’re talking about 1% of Iranians who attend Friday prayers and a fraction of that 1% who decide to burn flags and shout ‘Death to the Great Satan’ rather than get on with their lives, on the exact day cameras happen to be rolling. Nice public image I think not.
   5 - I saw news reports on the BBC a while back, which didn’t make much of an impact in terms of headlines, indicating that Iran’s oil supplies were running out. Coupled with outdated oil extraction technology, due to Iran not having many friends to rely upon for economic and technological benefits, means that they are suffering an energy crisis. There was even fuel rationing earlier in the year leading to mass protests and riots. Is that not a good enough reason to develop nuclear technology?
   6 - The US claims that Iranian elements are fuelling terrorism within Iraq and against US soldiers. Well okay, let’s say you have evidence of this and want to claim this as a justification for war. Well, the counter arguement is this. We know the US government has and is funding and arming the Kurds in the north of Iraq. Some of these arms and funds slip into the hands of the Kurdistan Workers Party (the PKK, a terrorist organisation) which should neatly slide over to their Iranian counterparts the PJUK for attacks against the Iranian state. But unfortuantely instead it’s used on Turkish soldiers and against the Turkish state. Coupled with the fact that the US has screwed two long standing trading partners of Turkey - Iran and Iraq, thus impacting the economy… hey, perhaps this is why when I’m sitting here in Ankara, I hear little in favour of US foreign policy.
   7 - A UK government report indicates that radicalisation of Muslims was made easier following the invasion of Iraq, leading up to the London bombings in 2005. So if we join the dots and attack Iran, are you trying to tell me that all those people who are losing faith in America and it’s ‘values’ might not just come to the conclusion that the land of the free has engaged in one giant crusade against the Muslim world. Is that not going to spur more people into fighting the US. Is that not going to bolster terrorism and Al-Qaeda? Sorry, the answer’s yes. I wasn’t actually asking a goddamned question.

   Last point - George Crack-Smoking Son-of-a-Bush says, “Iran was dangerous, Iran is dangerous and Iran will be dangerous if they have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.”
   Iran was dangerous for two reasons. First reason, we overthrew the democratically elected government of Mossadegh and installed the Shah as dictator, for the purposes of oil and economics. The Iranian’s only went with the only political group that would do something about it and we had the Islamic Revolution. Second reason, the US, the UK, France, Germany and Russia all backed Iraq during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, during which, US made chemical weapons were used to raise Iran’s death count to a staggering 750,000.
   Iran is dangerous because we’ve been told it’s dangerous, also it has to act a little dangerous, because we’ve invaded two countries on either side of it.
   Iran will be dangerous, if we persist in condemning it, if we continue to pressure the people of Iran by economic sanctions and if we bomb the country.

   I have more points, but I have the flu and want to pass out instead of continue…. Adios.

   Vay Nadarajah
   12/5/07 at 9:41 am
   

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