must read on Georgia-Russia war scenario

9.08.2008

Save the little nation from the annihilation!

Stop the genocide of the Ossetians!

The nationalistic and fascist government of Georgia from the year 1989 support the policy of the annihilation and the impression of the aboriginal Ossetian population from the territory that they occupy. From 1991 as a consequence of repeated military actions that were undertaken by the criminal authorities of Georgia against the small nations and the national purge murdered thousands of people –Ossetians, Abkhazians, Armenians, Russians. At the same time the scale of the genocide passed over the silence by mass media. The atrocity of the Georgian fascists, the tortures surpassed the one of the German fascists during the World War II.

The Georgian nation is sick, the ideas of the national oneness, justifying the territorial claims are warmed up by the Georgian mass media. The government of Georgia is financed by the USA, having it's own geopolitical interests in the region. Now the tragedy is developed, the Ossetian people are systematically shot in own houses, perish under blockages of the destroyed houses. The Georgian fascists have destroyed, have wiped about Ossetian villages, the city of Tskhinval is in ruins. It's impossible to count up the quantity of victims, that were buried under blockages of the houses destroyed by fire of the Georgian aggressors, the account goes on thousand. Groans of people from under blockages are audible. The Republic hospital where had helped to the wounded man was destroyed by the Georgian artillery, under blockages were wounded men and medical workers who could not be released under heavy fire of the opponent. Thus the Georgian party cynically declares the constitutional order prompting, one for another offers insinuations to accuse the Russian or Ossetian parts in the conflict. The people of Abkhazia will be the following victims of the Georgian extremism. We ask for the help, solidarity, and if it is possible with an exit on the international sites. Let the world knows the truth, instead of presented by the Georgian masters of falsifications lie.

IА “Рес”

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Inal Pliev: "It's necessary to suppress emphatically these volley plants, the armor-piercing techniques and all those instruments of murder that shoot at the peace town" At this moment the massed, intense, extremely cruel shelling of the housing estate of Tskhinval from the howitzers, mortars, artillery, IFV, tanks with using the system of the volley fire "Grad" from the direction of the Georgian villages continues. The bombardment goes on with the persistent volleys with the intervals under one second. This information was supplemented with the chief of the information department of the South Ossetian part of the Control Committee Inal Pliev. Here is the entire text. There are the hits to the houses that are situated in the immediate region of the boundary. There is fire and smoke around of us. Continues the intimidation and the oppression of the peaceful population. I suppose that the number of the victims will increase badly. But I have no idea about the number of victims, because we are in the shelters. Just now Saakashvily have declared by the radio that "gained a victory over the Russian Federation and Georgian troops are in the zone of the conflict and control Tskhinval totally and the Ossetian separatists will be obliterated". He also made the number of victims of the Ossetian part public (1500 persons). "I don't fight against the peaceful population, but with the gangsters". But in such a small nation can't exist 1500 gangsters. It's obviously that it is done to receive any political dividends. This war don't directed at the political victory, it is directed at total destruction of the peaceful nation. Now it is known that in the villages that have been occupied and that are released now the Georgians have taken away the Ossetian hostages. On the side of Georgia fight the international terrorists that had taken part in the war in Chechnya. It's especially discomposedly that the Georgian part hide the huge number of hostages from the Ossetian villages. This signify that they will be meanly killed as it was done earlier during the previous conflicts. I think that it was wise of Russia to provide safety of civilian population, by talking with the Georgians their native war language. The Russian collaboration is not enough, because the Georgians used heavy artillery against Tskhinval yesterday and today too. It`s necessary to destroy that artillery, because our people are dying, owr town is practically broken to pieses, otherwise South Osetia will be totally destroyed. Inal Pliev, the chief of the information department of the South Ossetian part of the Control Committee. . . . »»»

People of the Republic of South Ossetia apply for the government of the Russian Federation and for the people of Russia! The International Community that has been hypnotized with the crying misinformation of the government of Georgia and the cynical insinuations of Saakashvily doesn't undertake any measures to cut off the military actions of the Georgian part. On the contrary, they make different attempts to deprive the people of the South Ossetia of the peacemaking support and, in that way, doom them to the absolute destruction with the Georgian fascists. Meanwhile, the Georgian nationalists achieve their aims annihilating nearly one and a half thousand people of the South Ossetia and depriving the roofs and making the potential refugees the others. The irrepressible national ambitions and the territorial pretensions are warm up with the Georgian mass media, the supporting of the USA – the world-wide predominant force that has it's own interests in the region. When in April of 1989 in Tbilisi in the result of the dispersal of the unapproved antistate and nationalistic meeting perished 20 Georgian women, the Georgian part demonstrated the national hysteria with the involving of the universal mass media. Though, there is the data that those events also were the skilled insinuation of the Georgian "masters of the theatrical genre". And now, when thousands of people die, the Georgian nation triumphs, approving of the actions of their fascist government. The West is deaf. To live as a part of the fascist state is impossible. We ask for the juridical and legal help for recognizing the independence of the South Ossetia. And we ask for the help in the reducing the truth about the tragedy to the International Community, the RF and the common people. Читать на русском . . . »»»

Tskhinval is under the most frightful fire Innocent Ossetian civilians and Russian citizens killed: exact numbers cannot be established A massive and intensive shelling of the South Ossetian capital Tskhinval continues today as the city endures it's the worst attacks so far in the upsurge of violence in the Caucasus. While much of the civilian population in the capital are sheltering in their houses, many cannot take refuge from the bombs as their homes have been destroyed. There are still many women, children and elderly residents remaining in the city and, according to the latest information available, the city continues to resist the incursion of Georgian troops and has still not been captured. Georgian armed formations and heavy artillery have been accused of doing everything in their power to raze Ossetia with no regard to the safety of the civilian population. читать на русском . . . »»»

8.08.2008 - 11:52 Georgian SU-25 planes dropped bombs on civilians. In these minutes Georgian SU-25 planes dropped bombs on the peaceful citizens of the Republic of South Ossetia. SU-25 also strikes at ossetian village Kvernet, and bypass road,Zar, the only road, which links South Ossetia with the North. Perfidious massive bombardment of Tskhinval by the morning became more intense. In the city and its environs are fighting with heavy weapons. The people of South Ossetia requests assistance from the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev and the Government of Russian Federation to take urgent measures to protect the residents of South Ossetia, which are citizens of the Russian Federation and to do everything to stop the genocide of the Ossetian people. According to preliminary data, in the city killed more than 15 civilians. The Georgian convoy of tanks and infantry is moving towards Tshinval. Already devastated a large part of the town. Several buildings in the center of the city burn. Parliament House RYUO burned, the government buildings complex is damaged. High-rise housing and other residential buildings are burning. Читать на русском . . . »»»

Eduard Kokoity: «Situation is extremely deteriorated by the Georgian side» South Ossetia intended to take resolute measures on the facts of shelling of Ossetian settlements by the Georgian side. This was stated by the President of the Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity. «Presently the situation is very serious. At the height above Nuli village Georgians are constructing another post. We will take most tough decisions in this regard, for this are band formations and they are shelling our villages. The situation is aggravating from the Georgian side»-claimed Eduard Kokoity. . . . »»»

Georgian militaries fired funeral procession Georgian armed formations fired the funeral procession in Mugut village, Znaur region of RSO. As the Minister of Interior informed IA «Res» correspondent there was a funeral of RSO law enforcement organs serviceman Anatoly Kabisov killed during the firing of RSO MIA post in Velit village on the night from 1 to 2 August. . . . »»»

Georgian militaries fired funeral procession Georgian armed formations fired the funeral procession in Mugut village, Znaur region of RSO. As the Minister of Interior informed IA «Res» correspondent there was a funeral of RSO law enforcement organs serviceman Anatoly Kabisov killed during the firing of RSO MIA post in Velit village on the night from 1 to 2 August. . . . »»»

4.08.2008 - 17:09

Eduard Kokoity: «It is a meanness to shoot innocent people with sniper weapons, to hide behind the churches and to build fortifications at the cemeteries»

The President of the Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity received the delegation from North Ossetia. They discussed the situation created over South Ossetia last days. All the participants mentioned the complexity of situation. Eduard Kokoity emphasized that the people should not yield to the provocations organized by the Georgian side, whatever tragic and grave as it may be.

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Iraqi Widows, Orphans Left Stranded

By KIM GAMEL and BUSHRA JUHI, Associated Press Writers

Sunday, April 6, 2008

BAGHDAD, (AP) --

The car exploded near a popular ice cream parlor, sending flames and shrapnel through the busy square and killing 17 people.

It was another deadly explosion quickly forgotten by the outside world. But Aug. 1, 2007, changed the life of 28-year-old Maysa Sharif. It was the day she became one of nearly a million Iraqi women who have lost husbands as the country has suffered through three wars and Saddam Hussein's murderous regime.

Such vast numbers of widows would tax any society, and all the more Iraq's. With virtually no safety net and few job opportunities, most widows have little choice but to move in with their extended families and depend on their largesse.

Sharif was five months pregnant and preparing breakfast for her children when the blast shook their house in central Baghdad. She ran to the scene where her 39-year-old husband, Hussein Abdul-Hassan, ran a cigarette kiosk, and saw him on the ground. "Shrapnel hit his body and his head was cracked open. His eyes and mouth also were open," she said.

"I wanted to close them," she said, but police dragged her away, fearing a second explosion.

And her nightmare continued. Her 7-year-old son Saif had gone to work with his dad, and she couldn't find him. Only as her husband was being taken to the holy city of Najaf to be buried did she learn her son had died in the hospital.

"The funeral convoy turned around and put Saif's body in the same coffin," she said. "They refused to let me see my son or go to Najaf because I was pregnant. I could not believe that he was dead until I saw the death certificate."

Sharif has three other children — 10-year-old Ali, 2-year-old Tabarak and infant Abdullah, whose name was chosen by his father the night before he was killed. They now live in one room set aside for them in her brother-in-law's compound in central Baghdad.

With the government's attention focused on political crises and the U.S.-led war now entering its sixth year, advocates say the plight of women like Sharif is being ignored.

Women's Affairs Minister Nirmeen Othman warns it could boil up into a peacetime "social crisis."

A family health survey provided by lawmaker Samira al-Moussawi, who champions the widows, counted 738,240 widows ranging in age from 15 to 80 as of January 2007, and dating back to the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war. The figure included those whose husbands died of natural causes and a further breakdown was not available.

Othman estimated the number at closer to 1.3 million.

The problem also threatens the next generation.

A whole new primary school for 640 orphans has opened in Baghdad's Sadr City district, but headmistress Asma Karim says many pupils are failing for lack of support at home.

"Those who are left to care for these children are normally concerned about their survival more than their education," she said.

Al-Moussawi, a geologist-turned-politician, says she has been overwhelmed by petitions for help, including 448 recently delivered to her office in a plastic bag from the predominantly Shiite southern city of Diwaniyah.

"There isn't any strategy, any clear strategy to deal with this social issue — not for women, not for children," she said.

She has proposed legislation to budget $1 million — a tiny fraction of the oil-rich country's $48 billion budget — for educating widows, teaching them skills and raising their tiny pensions. But the Cabinet has rejected the measure.

Umm Hiba, a 38-year-old mother of two in northern Baghdad, blames herself for her husband's death because she sent him to a Baghdad market to buy yogurt for the dinner she was cooking. A mortar attack killed him on Jan. 27, 2007.

"It was all my fault. If I did not send him, he would be alive now with his children," she said, crying as she held her 2-year-old son.

Now she lives with her 7-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son in a room in the back of the house she and her husband shared with her blind brother-in-law and his family. She has built a makeshift bathroom and kitchen.

Neighbors and relatives collected money for her husband's funeral, but she was forced to sell her furniture to buy a sheep to slaughter on the first anniversary of his death, according to Islamic tradition. The sheep cost more than her monthly $62 pension.

Umm Hiba, who would only give her nickname, which means "mother of Hiba," says she applied unsuccessfully for several jobs but was rejected. She could have sought work as a cleaner in a school, but refused. "I have a high-school degree so it would be shameful for me to take such a job," she said.

The pension, she said, can't keep up with soaring food and clothes prices. "In Iraq, everything is costly, except human beings who are very cheap," she said.

By comparison, war widows under Saddam received plots of land, the cost of the funeral and sufficient pensions.

Jalila Hassan's husband, Kadhum Mohammed was 29 when he was killed in 1984 while fighting in the Iran-Iraq war. She was 17 at the time and said she was given a pension and even offered a choice between a car or the equivalent price. She chose the cash.

"Back then, widows were taken care of better than they are now. We were not left in destitution," she said.

Hassan, who lives with her mother and brothers in Sadr City, still gets a slightly higher pension of $80 a month but its value has fallen sharply.

Afifa Hussein's husband, 58-year-old Uraibi Hamid, was snatched by masked gunmen and shot to death July 14 in the insurgent stronghold of Samarra.

Hussein, in her 40s with eight children, found herself struggling to care for two disabled sons and an ailing daughter. To earn extra money for the family, her 19-year-old son drove a cab, a dangerous occupation in Iraq these days.

Her teenage daughter quit school, unable to cope, and a traumatized son moved out of the house for a month to stay with relatives.

Badriyah Hamid, a 45-year-old Shiite cleaning woman with 10 children, was working late at a school in the predominantly Sunni village of Rashidiyah on May 23, 2007, when she learned her 55-year-old husband, Fadhil Jafar, had been shot to death and dumped on the street.

"I ran to the site and all my children came too, throwing themselves on his body. He was shot six times in his back and head," she said.

The killing left one of her sons with a form of amnesia and no longer able to read or write, causing him to fail in school.

Women in black: the poverty and loneliness of Iraq's war widows

Nearly one million Iraqi women have lost husbands, courtesy of three wars and Saddam Hussein.

Click here for an audio slideshow of one widow's story.

Click on "Captions" for an explanation of each slide.

Text story here.

AP

Also left behind: Orphans of the war dead at a special school in Baghdad.

Comment:

I pray for the Iraqi widows, orphans, siblings, relatives and pets of those who have been killed in this war that has been sold to the American people. I pray for the American troops who have been recruited to continue this insanity. President Bush, I pray for your soulless crusade and I hope you reincarnate as a gnat in your next life.

Link: Myanmar heading towards confrontation

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Bread and Butter Issues behind Myanmar Protests

by Stephen Gowans

Global Research, September 26, 2007
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Before discussion on Myanmar becomes another demonizing ritual led by the White House, and actively subscribed to by the respectable left, it would be prudent to consider recent mass protests in the country in the context of surrounding events and independent of the frame set the US government.

In his address to the UN General Assembly, US President George Bush denounced Myanmar as a “brutal regime” (along with Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Syria, north Korea and Zimbabwe), an echo of the 2006 National Security Directive, which called the same countries “outposts of tyranny”.

While media accounts – in step with the US state -- have fostered the impression that the mass marches in Myanmar are “pro-democracy” protests against political tyranny, they have, on the contrary, been provoked by bread and butter issues. As the New York Times explained in the concluding paragraphs of a September 24 report, the protests began “August 19 in response to sharp, unannounced fuel price increases of up to 500 percent, immediately raising the prices of goods and transportation.”

The protests were initially led by students, and only recently by monks, after the police beat some monks at a small demonstration.

The monks have denounced the government for “impoverishing and pauperizing” the people -- language devoid of the references to freedom and democracy much favored by the US state and firmly rooted in day-to-day economic concerns.

Washington’s real beef with Myanmar isn’t that it is a “brutal regime” or “outpost of tyranny.” Such US allies as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Ethiopia and Israel are brutal regimes, but they’re showered with US aid and given diplomatic protection. The real problem with Myanmar is that its markets, land, resources and labor aren’t completely open to exploitation by US corporations and investors.

Myanmar practices protectionism. The government owns enterprises, rather than letting private capital (especially US capital) totally run the show. Like Cuba, north Korea and other US designated “outposts of tyranny”, it is not the kind of place the investment bankers, CEOs and corporate lawyers who dominate the US state can cozy up to -- or make a buck in.

The US Department of Commerce complains that Myanmar has restrictive trade policies and sets the prices of staples below market value, including gasoline. Ironically, it appears Myanmar’s efforts to bring gasoline prices up to market value – something the US government would applaud – sparked the protests.

“The state totally dominates some sectors, including mining and power, and state-owned firms have an important role in transport, trade and manufacturing,” according to the Economist’s Intelligence Unit.

What’s worst from Washington’s point of view is that the country restricts foreign investment. Worst still, it fails to protect private property.

Those who are ready to jump on the demonize-Myanmar-bandwagon should understand whose agenda they’re advancing -- and what its goals really are.

Stephen Gowans is a frequent contributor to Global Research. Global Research Articles by Stephen Gowans

YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar security forces opened fire on Buddhist monks and other pro-democracy demonstrators Wednesday for the first time in a month of anti-government protests, killing at least one man and wounding others in chaotic confrontations across Yangon.

Dramatic images of the protests, many transmitted from the secretive Southeast Asian nation formerly called Burma by dissidents using cell phones and the Internet, riveted world attention on the escalating face-off between the military regime and its opponents.

Clouds of tear gas and smoke from fires hung over streets, and defiant protesters and even bystanders pelted police with bottles and rocks in some places. Onlookers helped monks escape arrest by bundling them into taxis and other vehicles and shouting "Go, go, go, run!"

The government said one man was killed when police opened fire during the ninth consecutive day of demonstrations, but dissidents outside Myanmar reported receiving news of up to eight deaths.

Some reports said the dead included monks, who are widely revered in Myanmar, and the emergence of such martyr figures could stoke public anger against the regime and escalate the violence.

Early today, security forces raided two prominent Buddhist monasteries, beating up and hauling away more than 70 monks. Family members said Myint Thein, the spokesman for detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's political party, was arrested.

As the stiffest challenge to the generals in two decades, the crisis that began Aug. 19 with protests over a fuel-price hike has drawn increasing international pressure on the isolated regime, especially from its chief economic and diplomatic ally, China.

The United States and the European Union issued a joint statement decrying the assault on peaceful demonstrators and calling on the junta to open talks with democracy activists, including Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace laureate.

"What's going on in Burma is outrageous," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said.

The U.N. Security Council met in private to be briefed on developments, then issued a brief statement expressing concern about the violent response to demonstrations.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who was sending a special envoy to the region, urged the junta "to exercise utmost restraint toward the peaceful demonstrations taking place, as such action can only undermine the prospects for peace, prosperity and stability in Myanmar."

The junta issued an edict late Tuesday banning gatherings of more than five people, but the order was ignored by democracy activists and the public alike Wednesday.

The number of protesters seemed a bit less than on Tuesday, but thousands massed at the golden Shwedagon Pagoda, including monks in cinnamon robes, students, members of Suu Kyi's democracy movement and activists waving flags emblazoned with the fighting peacock - a symbol of Myanmar's democracy movement. Large crowds of bystanders also gathered to watch.

Police fired tear gas and made some arrests trying unsuccessfully to scatter the demonstrators. Protesters marched off toward the Sule Pagoda in the heart of Yangon, but were later blocked by military trucks and security officers with riot shields, clubs and guns. Groups of marchers then fanned out into other streets, chased by security forces.

Officers fired warning shots and tear gas trying to disperse the main group and began dragging monks into army trucks - the first mass arrests since protests against the military dictatorship erupted Aug. 19.

Reporters saw some monks beaten, and an exile dissident group said about 300 monks and other protesters had been arrested in small clashes across Myanmar's biggest city.

Myanmar's government said security forces fired when a crowd that included what it called "so-called monks" refused to disperse at the Sule Pagoda and tried to grab weapons from officers. It said police used "minimum force."

The junta statement, read on state radio and television Wednesday night, said a 30-year-old man was killed by a police bullet. It said two men, ages 25 and 27, and a 47-year-old woman also were hurt when police fired, but did not specify their injuries.

Exiled Myanmar journalists and democracy activists released reports of higher death tolls, but the accounts could not be independently confirmed.

Khim Maung Win, deputy editor of the Democratic Voice of Burma, an opposition-run shortwave radio service based in Norway, said five monks and three civilians were reported killed and at least four seriously injured.

Zin Linn, information minister for the Washington-based National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma, which is Myanmar's self-styled government-in-exile, said at least five monks were killed.

U.N. divided over Myanmar 2:48
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Myanmar generals face biggest protests in 20 yrs

By Aung Hla Tun

YANGON (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people joined streams of Buddhist monks on marches through Yangon on Monday in the biggest demonstration against Myanmar's ruling generals since they crushed student-led protests 20 years ago.

"The streets are packed," a witness said of massed opposition to the generals and 45 years of military rule that has turned the resource-rich country into one of Asia's poorest.

Five columns of maroon-robed monks, one stretching more than one kilometer (nearly a mile), marched from the Shwedagon Pagoda, the devoutly Buddhist country's holiest shrine, to the city centre to applause from thousands of onlookers who joined them.

"People locked arms around the monks. They were clapping and cheering," the witness said on the sixth day of marches by monks, some of them carrying placards calling for "National Reconciliation" and "Release of Political Prisoners."

Protests were also reported in Mandalay, where 10,000 monks marched on Saturday, in the northwestern city of Sittwe and in Bago, just north of Yangon.

In Yangon, after holding prayers at the Sule Pagoda in the main business district, the monks marched to another pagoda with tens of thousands of people trailing behind them.

For the first time, the marchers included members of parliament elected in 1990 from the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) two days after a dramatic appearance of support for the monks by detained NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

"IT'S ABOUT REFORM"

What began as anger at last month's shock fuel price rises has become a wider movement against the generals, with one monk group calling for peaceful mass protests against the junta until its downfall.

"There's no prospect now of the monks just deciding to abandon this. They are getting braver every day and their demands are getting greater every day, and it's much more overtly political," a Yangon-based diplomat said.

"It's now about Aung San Suu Kyi, it's about reform.

"The monks have got numbers and, if not immunity, then certainly it's much more difficult for the government to crack down on them than ordinary civilians," the diplomat said.

The United States, the loudest Western critic of the regime, expressed sympathy for the protesters and denounced the military.

Myanmar's regional neighbors, long frustrated by the generals refusal to speed up reforms, looked on with worry.

"We hope that the ongoing protests will be resolved in a peaceful manner," said the Foreign Ministry in Singapore, one of Myanmar's biggest foreign investors.

There were no signs of trouble during Monday's protests, but rumors of an imminent crackdown -- one suggested hospitals were being emptied of non-critical patients -- swirled in Yangon.

The generals are due soon to hold a quarterly summit in their new capital of Naypyidaw, carved out of the jungle. Dealing with the protests is sure to top the agenda.

The protests, which began on August 19, prompted a midnight round-up of the democracy activists who organized them. They now face up to 20 years in jail and are drawing public declarations of support from the famous.

The country's biggest stars of the stage, screen and music, including Tun Eindra Bo -- Myanmar's equivalent of Angelina Jolie -- have formed a "Sangkha Support Committee" and pledged to provide the monks with whatever assistance they need.

"The fact these celebrities are joining in is very significant," said one Myanmar exile who listened to them giving interviews on Burmese-language foreign radio stations.

"The committee said they will move on with the struggle until the end," the exile said.

(Additional reporting by Ed Cropley)

© Reuters 2007. All Rights Reserved.

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Secretary Rice With Chinese FM Yang Jiechi Monday, 24 September 2007, 12:38 pm
Press Release: US State Department
Secretary Condoleezza Rice
New York City
September 23, 2007

Remarks With Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi Before Meeting

QUESTION: Madame Secretary, could both leaders speak about the rising protests in Myanmar and the move for democracy in Myanmar?

SECRETARY RICE: Well, certainly, we are watching very carefully and the President has been very outspoken about what is happening in Burma. The Burmese people deserve better. They deserve a life to be able to live in freedom, just as everyone does. And the brutality of this regime is well known, and so we will be speaking about that and I think the President will be speaking about it with many of his colleagues.

Thank you.

The war with Iran has already begun

Below is a comment discovered on the LiveLeak thread accompanying the post of the video. Something to THINK about and study. Reading the neocon "thinkers" and their "rationales" what is being said is the unthinkable, but provides a more viable choice that is for sure. To all who might not understand why I post this, one word is paramount.

PEACE.

This is very akin to the Heritage Foundation's "analysis"; however it seems to represent a more "progressive" stance as to the actual situation as it pertains to US strategic interest in coming decades. The approach also precludes sitting on America's allies to provide backup and puts together two countries strategic interests. Since Dick Cheney's lovely oil pipeline plans came to naught during the past seven years; the ONLY way to ensure keeping Russia from raising from the ash would actually to be to ally with IRAN. Yup. The insane rush to get oil of the Arctic would be over at least for some time.

Seems to me that the US is going to have to wait for a complete sweeping of the broom in DC before this option could ever occur.

I've suggested moving the nation's capital to somewhere remote in the Dakotas as a very good First Step towards sanity and they can think things through in the US' real interest and stop putting the energy companies and "defense" contractors ahead of the American people OR the planet's existence. Hopefully, such a government would have some real environmentalists at the head of it, like some wise Lakota!!

And now for something completely different, a refreshing view of the Middle East options available.

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The US will never attack Iran directly using nuclear weapons or any other weapons. However it doesn't mean it isn't trying to topple it or at least weaken it.

The US foreign policy is based on two 25 years sub-cycles for a total of 50 years. Soviet Union collapsed exactly 50 years after WW2 and so was also Iran's turn: 1953 (date of the CIA coup) 50 = 2003. However, it didn't go as planned...

The US is scratching its head with what to do about Iran. For the first time, a country has proven the 50-year plan wrong. The complete collapse of Iran like the Soviet Union was due 5 years ago and the US's plan is falling behind schedule. With Iraq to the West and Afghanistan to the East in US's hands, Iran was supposed to implode (i.e. popular revolts against the government, etc.) or be weakened enough to move in troops already positioned in Iraq and Afghanistan. This plan is not working for the option of using ground troops does not exist anymore and the only possibility to engage Iran is by the air.

An air assault, be it just one bullet against an ant walking in Iran or the use of nuclear weapons to destroy Iran's infrastructure will be the same to all the people of Iran and the world also. It is an act of agression which will be answered to the best of their ability.

Having said so, it is important to remind everyone the real purpose behind the US's move against Iran. It has nothing to do with Islam or Iran but with money interests who use the US's human and financial resources to control the world economy.

War on terror, war against radical Islam!? If that's the case then the US should be advocating regime change in Saudi Arabia, the most backward, violent, radical version of Islam practiced ever in world history, not to mention that all, except one or two, 9/11 hijackers were Saudis.

No, the real reason is China and India (or any other future power). The new economic powerhouses of the new century. It's been about these two countries all along. By securing the oil and gas resources of the middle-east, the US can continue to control the world economy. Factories, cars, plastic, etc. all require oil. By making China pay $200 a barrel for its oil, China and India will lose their competitivity.

Losing control of the oil, would mean the end of the US. There is no way the US can compete with China or India (mainly due to demographic reasons) and the only way to survive is to make the Chinese and Indians pay though their nose for their oil.

Let's not fool ourselves, Iran is a bankrupt country economically but with a very rich culture and history, which has given its people an illusion of grandeur which does not match today's reality. Any other country in the Iranians' situation would have bowed down, like Libya, but the Iranians while knowing fully well they have no chance against the superior US military, they prefer to die with their head high and are painstakingly surviving with barely nothing (i.e. economic sanctions for the last 30 years, etc.).

It's the story of David (Iran) and Goliath (US) all over again. Seeing this, one can only have admiration for the Iranian people, who has not attacked anyone in over 1000 years and contributed so much to human civilization.

Iranians, due to their culture, are a freedom-loving people. The only way to kill an Iranian is to take his freedom away, not by bombs or bullets. If you take his freedom away, he will take his own life before you can take his. Martyrdom is the ultimate symbol of freedom.

Freedom, according to the ancient Iranians, is acquired by way of following the Righteous path called "Asha", namely by practicing "Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Thoughts".

The term Aryan denotes this philosophy also. Aryan or Iran, is composed of a stem "Ir" which means noble. The "an" suffix is just its plural form. A noble, is someone who is free, unlike the slave, whose freedom was taken away.

In Iran's case, what the US is fighting against is not some junk Russian military equipment but a civilization based on a thousands-year old culture.

As long as the Iranians keep their culture alive, there is no way the US or any other future superpowers can defeat it.

The US should ally itself with Iran if it wants to remain a superpower.

Why go with the middle-men (Jews) when you can deal directly with the Iranians?