Bomb Iran! The Facts Don't Matter

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CounterPunch
June 3, 2005

The Facts Don't Matter
Bombing Iran
By JOSHUA FRANK

AIPAC, the highly influential pro-Israel lobbying group in Washington recently held its well-attended annual conference, where the core educational thrust of the event was to persuade US politicians and the mainstream media into believing that Iran needs to be taught a little lesson. The assumption is that Iran is on the verge of producing a nuclear weapon. So we better bomb 'em, and quick.

"If Iran is on the verge of a nuclear weapon, I think we will have no choice but to take decisive action," said ex-Pentagon advisor Richard Perle as he drew loud cheers from the AIPAC loyalists. New York Senator Hilary Clinton, before she introduced Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to the crowd, said that a nuclear-armed Iran would be "unacceptable." Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader in the House also chimed in, saying, "The greatest threat to Israel's right to exist, with the prospect of devastating violence, now comes from Iran."

Iran poses absolutely no nuclear threat to the United States, let alone Israel. Yet many Washington bureaucrats are calling for military strikes on the sovereign country. And it's a bipartisan affair drenched in AIPAC cash.

Let us imagine that Iran were to produce a nuclear warhead. The UN weapons team missed it. The neocons and their allies weren't lying after all. Well; big deal. If Iran did have a weapon, or for that matter, multiple weapons, they would be unlikely to use them offensively. For they know if they did, Israel and the US's retaliation would be lethal. The country would be bombed to smithereens. Countless civilians would die.

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1. Which is why I still think BushCo

is going to detonate a small nuke in Iraq and blame it on Iran.

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2. The key word here is "offensively"...

perhaps they are developing it for defense...and in this climate, who could blame them?

Until the U.S. is prepared to disarm, why should anyone else?