Bush and Hawks Try Pre-Emptive Strike Vs. Iran Vote

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Bush and Hawks Try Pre-Emptive Strike Vs. Iran Vote

Jim Lobe

WASHINGTON, Jun 18 (IPS) - A familiar clutch of hardline U.S. hawks who led the march to war against Iraq have tried to carry out yet another pre-emptive strike. But this time it wasn't military.

As millions of Iranians prepared to vote for the successor to Pres. Mohammed Khatami Friday, the group, helped along by a strong denunciation by Bush himself, mounted what could only be described as an orchestrated public-relations campaign to discredit the elections even before they took place.

”Today Iran is ruled by men who suppress liberty at home and spread terror across the world,” Bush declared in a statement issued by the White House Thursday afternoon. ”Power is in the hands of an unelected few who have retained power through an electoral process that ignores the basic requirements of democracy.”

Bush's statements, which were echoed by National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, and to a somewhat less categorical extent by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, offered some reassurance to the hawks, particularly some prominent neo-conservatives outside the administration who have pressed their own longstanding campaign for ”regime change” in Teheran with growing intensity.

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1. No matter how much the bush** evil cabal demonizes the Iranian

government, I don't think that the Iranian people are going to be looking to them for salvation and liberation. And I don't think that the Iranian government is going to sit and take watching their country and its citizens all blown to smithereens without at least making a token effort to resist.

Somebody needs to tell the bush**bots that they are out of America's sphere of interest and are operating almost half way around the world in an area that is becoming more hostile by the day.

And even taking Israel into consideration, yes they are heavily armed. But I just can't see China or Russia allowing the US and Israel to blow up the Middle East at will. No way.

And I never see anyone talk about European reaction to an attack on Iran. I just can't see it being okey dokey with them to have us cause more chaos in the world, especially since they know the whole thing was built upon insanity and lies and incompetence in the first place.

[teryang]

2. Sounds like an American election

"They are a mise en scene, an entertainment, a comic opera staged for our benefit."

To hear this freakin fascist talk about elections makes my stomach turn.

[Kenneth ken]

3. why is it

everything Bush** says about countries he doesn't like seems so self-referential?

”Today Iran the US is ruled by men who suppress liberty at home and spread terror across the world,”

as the latest example. :eyes:

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