Israel and US Threats Against Iran (JOSHUA FRANK)

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Israel and US Threats Against Iran
By JOSHUA FRANK

The Bush Administration and their Democratic allies believe that the war in Iraq and now Iran is in Israel's interest.

"If you're a supporter of Israel, I would strongly urge you to help other countries become democracies," President Bush was quoted as saying in the Forward on December 16, 2005. "Israel's long-term survival depends upon the spread of democracy in the Middle East."

Democracy by gunpoint that is. As the search for Weapons of Mass Destruction has waned, Bush and his warmongering allies have continued to declare the occupation of Iraq is now about democracy. It was on the backburner of justifications before the war, but now the neocon's false hopes are front and center. Of course, this so-called "democracy" has clear limitations. For starters, what the Bush administration and their Israeli allies have in mind for the Middle East has absolutely nothing do to with any sort of democratic principles.
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http://www.counterpunch.org/frank01202006.html

[teryang]

1. it has nothing to do with sovereignty either

colonialism abroad and dictatorship at home, the neo-con paradigm.

[applegrove]

2. I agree. Rove is still looking to "flip" a small percentage of the Jewish

vote. This predictable anti-simetic backlash has neocon written all over it. Look for the issue to not be "solved" any time soon! All it would take would be Australia & New Zealand to stop sending lamb by shit to 75 Million Iranians.