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George Bush declares that Iran is the enemy of the US, and it is. But, it's an enemy because the
United States has made it so.
Since the 60's the US has been meddling in Iranian affairs over oil without remorse. They've
been trying to provoke Iran to attack them but this treatment is akin to a father bashing his
five-year-old with the butt of his rifle in the hopes that the kid will stand up and take a swing.
In 1988, a United States destroyer, the USS Vinchennes, shot down an Iranian civilian passenger
plane flying in Iranian airspace. The commanding officers of the Vinchennes were given awards
for their act, and George Bush Senior announced that the United States would never apologize
for killing those civilians. This was just one attempt to make Iran attack the U.S. To this day, the
US has embargoes against Iran to prevent Boeing from selling the Iranian government parts to
repair its ailing fleet of passenger planes. The international community has heavily criticized the
United States for this because these planes are now a danger to everyone who flies on them. In
an attempt to provoke the Iranians, innocent civilians lives are at stake whenever they fly.
The U.S.'s latest tactic has been to get Israel to make passes at Iran. But when Iran declared
they would defend themselves if attacked, Senator Clinton announced, in lock-step with George
Bush and John McCain, that she would not hesitate to dispatch nuclear weapons against Iran.
This sort of talk is not making the citizens of the United States any safer. Every time the US
government presumes to get in the business of another nation, it upsets the people of that
country. It reminds me of a story I heard once from a colleague, about a group of drug-addled
pipeliners who'd come across a wolverine that had been caught by his hind leg in a bear trap.
The pipeliners were poking at the wolverine with a stick and laughing every time it lunged at them
and got caught up on the trap's chain. What happens when he's made enough to break free?
Get Iran mad enough and of course they'd fight back.
Now everyone believes that Iran is trying to build nukes to bomb the US. YOu might thinnk: why
wouldn't they, after all the abuse they've received thus far? Well, I'll tell you why they wouldn't.
Iran is currently sitting on one of the world's largest supplies of Oil in the world and part of that oil
is nationalized. Therefore, the Iranian government gets a percentage of all the Oil that comes out
of the ground. This is why the US wants to overthrow the Iranian government - because then the
oil companies could run unfettered in Iran and produce as much or as little oil there as they
wanted.
However, Iran sells a large percentage of their Oil to India and China. If Iran were attacked, India
and China would step into the fray to protect their own energy interests. Russia would join by
default backing them. It would be World War III, and whoever attacked Iran would LOSE.
In short, no one can afford to go to war with Iran. And considering that Iranians have put up with
so much already, I don't think they'd make the mistake of striking out so late in the game, if their
enemies quietly stepped back. These are people who don't hate the United States for what they
have, or for their lifestyle; these are people who hate the United States for what its leaders and
their invasive foreign policies have done to them. If the United States re-examined these policies,
then its citizens would get the safety and security they crave. And I ask those citizens to carefully
examine the facts and recognize that the actions of the Bush administration these past 8 years
has made you anything but.
| Political Hash: Hoffart Speaks Out (While They Still Let Him) by Tony Hoffart |
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