The War Drums Beat Louder!

I prefer edible mushrooms, don’t you?

Friends, correct me if I’m imagining things but has there been an escalation in the anti-Iran rhetoric over the last  month or so? Has it become ever more frantic, ever more illogical, ever more untruthful?

It reminds me of the period prior to the invasion of Iraq when we in Australia were being told by our political leaders that Saddam could launch a nuclear-armed missile at Australia and that Iraq had all manner of Weapons of Mass Destruction that could threaten the world.

It was a period when Colin Powell went to the U.N. and told all manner of preposterous lies and we were shown all manner of dubious graphics and we were told that 9/11 and Saddam were intimately connected.

The U.S., either motivated by its own imperial ambitions and/or prodded along by its Zionist manipulators, is talking the same talk as it did prior to its Shock and Awe attack on Bagdad. Its talk is designed to frighten people across the world, to elevate Armadinejad into a Saddam-like monster, to convince us that Iranians have two heads and drink the blood of babies, and to  make out that Iran threatens the survival of the whole world. Why it’s even deployed more missiles in the region recently, ones designed to shoot down Iranian missiles should they be fired, it says.

Of course, if we look at Iraq and what was achieved there, we already know that the American method of solving world problems (bomb, bomb, bomb) achieves nothing except to make lots of money for the  U.S. armament and munitions manufacturers and to give America more places to put its army bases and more access to oil and other resources. That Iraq is now a chaotic mess, worries the Yanks not at all!

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The World Is Awash With Weapons!

Have gun. Will use!

Friends, the U.S. has just concluded an arms deal with Taiwan. It is selling the Chinese folk on the small island off the China coast 6.5 billion dollars of weaponry.

Now, understandably, the Chinese are upset because they see Taiwan as belonging to it and hope that one day Taiwan and China will become one again.

The Chinese see America up to its usual tricks: causing trouble, upsetting the balance of power between nations, sticking its nose in where it doesn’t belong, etc. It has threatened major retaliation against the U.S. but not that of military retaliation, at least not yet.

I seem to remember that the U.S. almost brought the world to its end when Russia tried to bring missiles to Cuba. The American position was that no country would be allowed to bring anything to Cuba that might threaten the States.

Of course, Russia is ringed by American ballistic missiles but that’s different! And China now has a better armed Taiwan sitting close to its mainland thanks to America. And Venezuela now has American troops occupying Haiti. And Pakistan has American drones filling its skies. And Yemen has cruise missiles landing on its soil, thanks to America. And Iraq and Pakistan, both of which are close to Russia, have a strong American presence.

America has one set of rules for itself and the opposite set for other nations. But the point of this post is not to deal just with America.

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