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Spiegel Online did an interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran. The following are thoughts that came to me while reading it.

I want to preface this article by saying that many of the words that Ahmadinejad spoke make some sense. However, it’s absurd and insulting, to say the least, to believe the Holocaust didn’t take place. It’s puzzling why freeing the interned people wasn’t a priority of the US when it entered the war. Roosevelt and Co. knew that those camps existed. There were American businessmen helping to equip them! There is no doubt in my mind that the horrific Holocaust took place, though.

Ahmadinejad’s statements about the US possessing nuclear weapons, over 3800 of them on hair trigger alert, while demanding that other nations cease any work that even resembles building a bomb is spot on. Kennedy, Nixon, Ford and Carter worked on non proliferation agreements with the USSR. The Regime has turned the logic of that hard work around. In fact, it’s taken the logic out of it.

The US has become a wimp. For 30 years, the US and the USSR stared each other down with a near equal number of nuclear warheads. Admittedly, neither nation wanted to end life on earth. The warheads existed to deter the other side from using their warheads. The only time that we may have used nuclear weapons was if The Cuban Missile Crisis was the crisis that Kennedy made it out to be.

Saddam, on the other hand, (they use individuals’ names because it’s easier to demonize individuals), might have had a bomb or may have built one in the future or maybe was just working on plans, but the thought of that one bomb was frightening enough to compel us to attack Iraq. Alas, the WMD excuse was a lie.

The same is now true with Iran. Maybe Iran’s lying. Maybe they’re building a bomb. A bomb. If this is true the worse case scenario, as horrible as it may be, is that Iran can make a dent in a city on the US West Coast. Horrific for us. We’ll die and there will be damage and residuals for many years. The one bomb, if it can get past our antiballistic missile systems, will be answered with with a barrage of nuclear weapons that will make the Middle East a place where humanity used to exist and won’t be able to exist for hundreds of years to come.

Iraq knew what would happen if they attacked the US. They weren’t going to fly drones over the US.

Iran knows the same thing. How long after developing this bomb would it have taken Iraq or will it take Iran to perfect a delivery system?

The propaganda that The Regime is using far too successfully is fear mongering. The vision they’re creating for gullible Americans is one of nuclear weapons flying all over the place. We faced the Soviet’s arsenal for thirty years, but Americans are frightened of one bomb that Iran may develop. This makes no sense.

Ahmadinejad spoke of Iran and The Middle East. He didn’t realize that he summed up The Regime’s plans for another part of the world.

Why did Mary Anastasia O'Grady call Hugo Chavez “a threat to world peace” on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal? What does Chavez possess except a desire for sovereignty and independence from the U.S? Why is the U.S. readying itself for a fourth attempt to overthrow him? Doesn’t the US realize that, since Chavez was elected the leader of Venezuela, other nations in that region have elected socialist leaning anti American governments as well?

Does The Regime believe that, if South and Central American nations ally with one another and even possibly ally with Iran and other Middle Eastern nations that, first and foremost, Israel will be toast and then the Former United States of America will be toast as well?

Then where’s the oil? Is this the kind of world hegemony that The Regime wants – a totally broken world?

This Regime is blood thirsty, greedy, aggressive and under the impression that the rest of the world and its resources are theirs for the taking. This kind of arrogance and aggression is beginning to get old among The Regime’s target nations.

It’s not clear if Ahmadinejad is sincere about his logical observations. Like him or not, many of them make sense.

It seems that we can do almost nothing about this situation. The wealthy elite that sit in Congress, enjoying the corrupt life of luxury and legislating as a hobby, have blocked out the entrance into government for anyone who doesn’t have a “war chest”.

Jefferson’s statement, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants”, is looking like more than just a quote.

It would be easy to get the military, the front line soldiers, to help with a coup once it becomes clear that their missions could lead to the annihilation of human kind. They and their loved ones, after all, are part of human kind.

This is how empires ultimately fall.

To friendship,
Michael

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Today in history June 29th
1946 British arrest 2,700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorists

We don't need no more blood shed. Those who remember the past are doomed to repeat it, or so it seems to me. That was then this is now. Jefferson writing in the 18th century.

Gandhi rules. War is a failure of the imagination.

Jack, Ahmadinejad says nothing about spilling blood. It isn’t until the very end of his interview that he basically says that, if Iran is attacked, it will defend itself. I think that those words are fairly benign.

I realize, however, that he has made very strong anti Israel statements, which, of course, include his irresponsible statements about The Holocaust. Those are not peaceful words. This is why I didn’t address any of his references to Israel or the Palestinians. He’s biased, he’s very deeply “religious” in a Pat Robertson sort of way, he’s a theocrat and my essay was certainly not written to defend him or any vile statements he’s made against Israel.

However, logic does say that it’s the epitome of hypocrisy for a nation that has thousands of nuclear warheads to be policing the world, deciding who can and who can not possess nuclear weapons. That does nothing more or less than put the Former United States of America in a position to control resources that don’t belong to it.

You know, too, that Hugo Chavez has done nothing to the US and I’ve not heard anything threatening that he’s said towards or about the US. Like Iraq and like Iran, Chavez isn’t stupid enough to attack the US. Besides, he seems to think too much of his people to throw them in front of the American military machine.

I’m quite certain that no one hopes that this is the time about which Jefferson spoke, 18th century or not. However, the press needs to be the engine that moves our nation along so that the major political and peaceful change that is needed is realized.

I’m not sure that you or I can answer the question, “Is now that time?” Although I truly believe that no one hopes that this is that time, I believe that some who embrace that hope may have more control over whether now is or is not that time than you or I.

The Regime, I’m sure, hopes that it isn’t the time to spill blood in order to govern this nation. I’m certain that it hopes that it can continue to expand its power and possibly even perpetuate it while continuing to fool the same Americans, keeping them as lemming like supporters.

Unfortunately, as obvious as its crimes are, The Regime still maintains strong, unswerving support. Its crimes are so obvious that I can’t help thinking that this is it. Anyone who hasn’t moved away from supporting The Regime will never do so. That means that one third of the people polled in this country would believe any excuse The Regime gives for any action it takes and, ultimately, would follow it into hell, which may be required of them sooner than later. A 30-35% poll number looks fairly lame when looked at as a poll number. 30-35% of the population, however, is still a lot of people and their unquestioning loyalty and “patriotism” is very, very strong.

The little bit of support that we’ve received from the MSM since 9/11, or even since 2000, is being beaten back so hard that the MSM is hesitant to ask hard questions and print “NSA type” articles. Who knows, the talk from far too many Americans and, for sure, from far too many of our governmental leaders in Congress, in the so called administration and even in The Supreme Court just may compel a newspaper like The New York Times to totally give up revealing truths that we need to know. Total control over the media will complete the dictatorship, won’t it?

There is one possible solution that The Supreme Court might not be too far along yet to completely turn its back on and that’s a Daniel Ellsberg for 2006. There is a large difference, though. Ellsberg carried out his operation in a time when the lack of technology helped him. I think that today’s technology would make it very difficult to carry out a covert operation on the scale of The Pentagon Papers.

I’m sure you don’t know the answer to the following questions, st. These are merely rhetorical questions. What’s the answer? What’s going to keep The Regime from finding an excuse to continue to “hold office” beyond January, 2009 or at least from running a Regime member for “president”? Fixing the votes to maintain power will be a piece of cake by then.

Jack, you’ve heard the words “treasonous” and “traitor” used in reference to The New York Times. According to The Regime and its supporters, The Times ought to be stripped of its press credentials for “leaking” a fact that The Front Man and the Secretary of the Treasury had already said publicly. They both said that they’d be searching for Al Qaeda assets and, if they find them, they’ll freeze them. The only thing different in The Times, as well as other papers’ articles is that there is a possibility that The Regime has become overzealous in following bank records. It’s like the articles that said The Regime is becoming overzealous in listening in on phone conversations or searching through phone records. They already told the world that they’d be monitoring Al Qaeda.

There are a couple of articles that you might find interesting. They are“When the FBI Raids the Times” and “A Disgraceful Attack on the New York Times”.

Of course, there can’t be anything more ironic than what The Front Man said on March 13, 2002 when he was asked if he or his government were any closer to capturing bin Laden. “I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority.” Why all of a sudden the monster push to search through the records of anyone and everyone, without a warrant, mind you? This is how Nixon was trying to learn the Democratic Party’s political strategy for 1972 and he wasn’t even in the trouble that The Republicans are in today.

By the way, the above quote is a lot different than what he said on September 13, 2001. “The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority (italics and bold mine) and we will not rest until we find him.”

If printing the truth looks treasonous, then we must continue to look treasonous in the eyes of The Regime so that we don’t become treasonous in reality.

To friendship,
Michael

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