Joe Hack

Oh I toyed with the idea of writing a regretful review of how far America has strayed under the heinous stewardship of Bush and the far-right neo-con mafia from the ideals that made it great, a kind of in memoriam for moral principles, but to be perfectly honest I couldn’t be bothered. The sky is blue, the sun is shining, the cars waxed and the coast is an hours drive so lets do something much simpler that we can all enjoy, shall we ? Lets all just start the day with a good laugh at  Americas wackiest and most internationally appreciated joke, George W Bush.

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No Joe Hack rants today folks. Just for a change I’m reproducing here, without comment, extracts from an article written by a guy called David Zephyr on the democraticunderground.com newsboard. You can check it out, and the follow-ups,  there if you want. I think it  makes quite interesting reading. It goes like this :-

” The fact that Osama bin Laden, who planned and executed the attacks of September 11th, 2001, murdering three thousand people, is still not even a target of the President of the United States some six long years later should tell everyone in this country one thing: George W. Bush has no intention of ever capturing or bringing him to justice. And why is that? Because the Bin Ladens and the Bush Families have been business partners for over 50 years now. In fact, we might as well call it the B&B Company, because that’s what it truly is!

Like father, like son, like grandson.

In the middle of the last century, a young George Herbert Walker Bush, the son of Prescott Bush, found early on that pimping cheap Arabian oil against his fellow Texan oilmen had both its political and financial rewards. Indeed, it was Bush’s relationship with his new found Arabian oil buddies that eventually cost him his bid to for the U.S. Senate from Texas after Senator Lloyd Bentsen exposed Bush’s undercutting Texas oil men with cheap Arabian crude. Sure, Bush may have lost his shot at the Senate, but what did that really matter? The grease of money from his new Arabian friends, dictators and business tycoons, more than compensated for his loss to Bentsen.Bush soon carved himself out a very special niche in international business: he became the premier American contact and agent for the Saudi family, the Bin Ladens. In fact, this relationship was so tight that whenever GHW Bush traveled all those many years to the Middle East, he passed over the many fine hotels in Saudi Arabia…always preferring to stay in the bin Laden family palace. Indeed, the Bin Laden and Bush coziness became downright family-like. When GHW Bush’s daughter, Dorothy, divorced her husband and was “depressed”, it was the Bin Ladens who took her in, giving her a place to regain herself.

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After the bloody humiliation America is suffering in Iraq, and with the lowest approval ratings for any president ever, you’d have thought George W Bush would have learned something. Apparently not if recent reports in the Guardian newspaper are correct. Its looking increasingly like the idiot is thinking of attacking Iran. God help us all ! Whats that you say ? Iran just happens to have the worlds second largest reserves of crude oil ? Well golly, theres a coincidence, eh ?

The hardening of policy apparently follows an internal review involving the White House, the Pentagon and the state department over the last month. Although, or perhaps because, the Bush administration is in deep and desperate trouble over Iraq it is now seeking to turn the focus of public attention onto Iran. A well-placed source in Washington said: “Bush is not going to leave office with Iran still in limbo.”. Thats enough to send a shiver down the collective spine of the rest of the civilized world.

The White House claims that Iran, whose influence in the Middle East has increased significantly over the last six years, is intent on building a nuclear weapon and is arming insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. Of course you will recall that this is the same administration which stated so categorically that Iraq had WMD and viciously attacked any critics who dared question that assertion. We all remember that, don’t we ? I hope so. This is the same administration, Cheney particularly, that tried to claim Al Quaeda was a reason for the attack on Iraq despite all intelligence services saying categorically that was simply not true, that Iraq was a terrorist-free zone until after the US invasion. So we can all have absolute faith in anything the Bush administration says about Iran, right ?

Hardline vice-president, Deadeye Dick Cheney, has long favoured upping the threat of military action against Iran. The only moderate voices have been the secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, and the defence secretary, Robert Gates. Last year Mr Bush came down in favour of Ms Rice, who along with Britain, France and Germany has been putting a diplomatic squeeze on Iran. But at a meeting of the White House, Pentagon and state department last month, Deadeye Dick Cheney expressed frustration at the lack of progress and Mr Bush sided with him. “The balance has tilted. There is cause for concern,” the source said this week.

Nick Burns, the undersecretary of state responsible for Iran and a career diplomat who is one of the main advocates of negotiation, told the meeting it was likely that diplomatic manoeuvring would still be continuing in January 2009. That assessment went down badly with Mr Cheney and Mr Bush. The Washington source said Mr Bush and Mr Cheney did not trust any potential successors in the White House, Republican or Democratic, to deal with Iran decisively. They are also reluctant for Israel to carry out any strikes because the US would get the blame in the region anyway, given that it is widely internationally peceived that Israel does not act without Washingtons tacit approval..

“The red line is not in Iran. The red line is in Israel. If Israel is adamant it will attack, the US will have to take decisive action,” Mr Cronin, Director of Studies at the ISS said. “The choices are: tell Israel no, let Israel do the job, or do the job yourself.”. Iran currently, and with some justification, feels itself to be under considerable threat from the US. Almost half of the US’s 277 warships are stationed menacingly close to Iran, including two aircraft carrier groups. The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise left Virginia last week for the Gulf. A Pentagon spokesman said it was to replace the USS Nimitz and there would be no overlap that would mean three carriers in Gulf at the same time. Stop and think for a moment about how the US would feel if there were over a hundred Iranian warships along its coastline and warlike statements were coming out of Iran. If the boot were on the other foot Americans would be very, very nervous. Thats a no-brainer.

Bush and Cheneys hardline stance is deeply unpopular internationally. There is a very clear lack of support for military action from any of Americas previous allies and it would have to be very much a case of Bush going it alone against the force of overwhelming worldwide opinion.if he indeed opts for Cheneys preferred ‘attack’ policy. Because of that no decision on military action is expected until next year and in the meantime the state department will continue to pursue the diplomatic route although given the attitudes of Bush and Cheney one can only wonder how whole-hearted this approach will really be.

Bush, who has never spoken in criticism of Israels secret nuclear arsenal and who was instrumental in sharing nuclear technology with India in contravention of long-standing US policy, is likely at some point to hype the notion of Iran acquiring a nuclear weapons capability as a justification for military action. Iran has repeated categorically that their only interest is in the development of peaceful nuclear technology. Sporadic talks are under way between the EU foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, and Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, on the possibility of a freeze in Iran’s uranium enrichment programme. Tehran has so far re-asserted its right to peaceful nucdlear development but has provisionally agreed to another round of talks at the end of the month. The pot simmers.

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed El Baradei, has said that there are signs of Iran slowing down work on the enrichment plant it is building in Natanz. Negotiations took place in Tehran last week between Iranian officials and the IAEA, which is seeking a full accounting of Iran’s nuclear activities before Tehran disclosed its enrichment programme in 2003. The agency’s deputy director general, Olli Heinonen, said two days of talks had produced “good results” and would continue. At the UN, Bush is pushing for tougher economic sanctions against Iran but other UN member states are resisting.

We all know that Bush and Cheney have previous form for hyping up imaginary threats to justify military action. They have previous form for going against world opinion too. So its all desperately worrying. Be very watchful. If you suddenly start seeing feverish claims from the Bush camp in the tame news media about the ‘Threat of Iran’ please remember Iraq. Take nothing whatsoever on trust. Demand independent (for example the UN) verification. This is important. There have been over 600.000 lives lost in Iraq so far and theres no end in sight. We cannot afford to be lied and manipulated into another deadly debacle like that ever again.

We won’t get fooled again.

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