link to scott ritter on usa and iran

[jimboloco]

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/200 ... _iran_war/

he says that we are capturing iranians and labeling them terrorist operatives, holding them prisoner, using this as more fear mongering

[stilltrucking]

Where is judith miller when we need her?

From speculation to speculation, the case against the Quds Force by the Bush administration continues to lack anything in the way of substance. And yet the mythological Daqduq has become a launching platform for even graver speculation, fed by the media themselves, that the highest levels of leadership in Iran were aware of the activities of Daqduq and the Quds Force, and are thus somehow complicit in the violence. Not one shred of evidence was produced to sustain such serious accusations, and yet national media outlets such as The New York Times and The Washington Post both ran stories repeating these accusations.

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But fiction often mirrors reality, and in the case of Iran’s Quds Force, the model drawn upon by the U.S. military seems to be none other than America’s own support of anti-Iranian forces, namely the Mujahedin el-Khalk (MEK) operating out of U.S.-controlled bases inside Iraq, and Jundallah, a Baluchi separatist group operating out of Pakistan that the CIA openly acknowledges supporting. Unlike the lack of evidence brought to bear by the U.S. to sustain its claims of Iranian involvement inside Iraq, the Iranian government has captured scores of MEK and Jundallah operatives, along with supporting documents, which substantiate that which the U.S. openly admits: The United States is waging a proxy war against Iran, inside Iran. This mirror imaging of its own terror campaign against Iran to manufacture the perception of a similar effort being waged by Iran inside Iraq against the U.S. has been very effective at negating any Iranian effort to draw attention to the escalation of war-like activities inside its borders. After all, who would believe the Iranians? They are only trying to divert attention away from their own actions inside Iraq, or so the story goes.

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truth dig cool site
thanks for the link

this from the 10/16/07
front page.

President Bush’s private meeting with the Dalai Lama on Tuesday, the day before the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader was slated to receive the Congressional Gold Medal, didn’t please Chinese officials, to say the least. They’re not really thrilled about the U.S. honoring the Dalai Lama for his role in the ongoing struggle to free Tibet from Chinese rule, either.

I would sure love to be a fly on the wall at that private meeting.



on an unreated note if you don't mind
what is Pelosi's objective with the Armenian Holocaust resolution. An attempt to get Turkey to help us pull out of Iraq?

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The highest priority for the antiwar movement in America today must be the prevention of a war with Iran.

Yes I think so too.


He does not have much faith in the main stream media anymore. Can't say I blame him.

[jimboloco]

It is profound that Scott Ritter exists.

When I was down and out in Phoenix in the winter of 87-88,
I went to one meeting of peace activists.
There was a guy there who was an ex-Marine
who was going up to Nevada to be in an anti-nuke demonstration
there was a professorial type
and a rather arrogant woman
I was depressed.
I sat on the couch with this professor, listening th=o the marine talk,
and suddenly the woman looked at me and said,
"that's all we need, another faggott."
wierd,
I left not feeling a sense of community.
i was so poor, working as a laborer,
hiking the desert mountain parks in my time off, driving down to Tuscon to hang out, saw a surrealist film series on Sat nights at the YWCA,
weathered deeps
worked in a lumberyard,
not knowing how to connect my past with a future,
but I was impressed with the anti-war ex-Marine
and now, remember him as a part of my journey.

Scott Ritter is another one.
That I healed, am still healing,
that Ritter lives and does his testimony,
is all good to me,
and bodes well for the future.