Last Chance to Spare Iran: You Can Do It

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Last Chance to Spare Iran: You Can Do It


by Dr. Mary Maxwell,

January 1, 2006
GlobalResearch.ca




According to Scott Ritter, we Americans have been sending aerial vehicles (unmanned drones) into the Iranian hinterland for some months now. And, according to Kurt Nimmo, the CIA has put Turkey on notice for “the possible US air operation against Iran and Syria.” The fact that our newspapers and Network television refuse to tell us about this does not absolve us of responsibility. You must, and I repeat, must, do all you can to stop this.

Reasons to Spare Iran

Why should we act decisively to stop the Pentagon from bombing Iran? Of the following five reasons,

I cannot say which is the most important – they seem equally to merit priority. Still, for practical reasons, one can be singled out as the absolute top priority. Namely, the US should not engage in nuclear war – whether in Iran or anywhere else in the world. True, the US has already used bunker buster weapons and munitions with depleted uranium in Iraq, but nuclear weapons should NEVER be used. We must draw the line even against so-called ‘mini nukes’.

Four specific reasons why we should protect Iran are:

Quite simply, a consensus has been reached since 1945 that crimes against humanity are off-limits (not a bad consensus when you think of it – we may be on the receiving end someday)

Iran should be respected for its cultural achievements that date back to the Persian empire, and which were appropriated liberally by European civilizations (ah, Persian carpets…ah, glazed tiles)

‘Regime change’ sparks recollection of the fact that the CIA already changed Iran’s regime once – in 1953. It helped overthrow the popular leader Mossadegh, and then trained the horrific secret service, SAVAK, for the Shah

We Americans would be wrecking our own future, and our self-esteem, by engaging in such a war


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[savemefromdumbya]

1. Whose permission?

[FloridaPat]

2. * tool money from the Afghanistan invasion to plot the Iraqi invasion.

That is illegal too. Where were the Democrats? Anyway, what money is he using for this? Iraqi money? Illegal again? Who authorized this? Why isn't this guy impeached?

[donheld]

3. Do you really think these people going to listen to us.

They would not listen when we told them to stay out of Iraq what makes anyone think they'll listen now?