“BOMB, BOMB IRAN.”  With Senators who sing songs like this, why is anyone surprised?  The big surprise is why American are stupid enough to keep sending the same war mongers back to Washington DC year after year

“Outrageously yet routinely, America is preparing for yet another war. Though warned by Iran not to bring an aircraft carrier into the Persian Gulf, the US now has an unprecedented three. (Gee, I wonder why they call it the Persian Gulf, but don’t be surprised if, say, 200% of our high school seniors don’t even realize that Persia is Iran.) Forget the nuclear weapon babble, America is harassing Iran because it ranks in the top five in both oil and natural gas preserves. Further, it has the chutzpah to wrest itself away from the dollar hegemony by selling oil to Russia and China for rubles and yuans. For five years, Iran also tried to operate an oil bourse where customers were asked to pay in currencies other than the greenback. This, America clearly saw as a grave threat and provocation, for if the petro dollar expires, this empire will sink with it. For showing similar insolence, Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi were barbarically and publically killed, with their final moments broadcast to the world as a warning. See, when there’s a body to be shown, America does not hesitate to display her trophy.

On land, America has surrounded Iran by having troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. At sea, she has dozens of ships, with a permanent naval base in Bahrain. Assassinations linked to Israel and America have happened inside Iran, and American drones have flown over the country, with one shot down.  .  .”

Read the rest of Linh Dinh’s article at The Dissident Voice.

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ILWQ COMMENTS

But do we really have a choice?  Is there any way to stop the corrupt leaders in Washington DC from declaring war on Iran?

No, not as long as we the people continue to send the same corrupt crooks back to Congress every 2 and 4 years.  Over half of Congress make money from war.  Why the hell do Americans expect them to vote against war?

You want real change?

THEN THEY ALL MUST GO.

Now Hillary is warning Iran against interfering in Iraqi affairs.

This has to be the pinnacle of hypocrisy–the Secretary of State of the USA telling another nation to not interfere in another nation’s affairs when the USA is the world’s leader of such behavior.  Of course, in warning Iran, Clinton is issuing a thinly veiled threat to Iraq to not communicate (or else) with Iran.

The truth about why the USA is leaving Iraq is because the people of Iraq are demanding it–not because the US State department wishes it.  It could even be said that Iraq is kicking the USA out of their country. Of course, Obama will turn that into a campaign talking point with a twist:  ”I said we would have all our troops out of Iraq by the end of 2011 and so it has happened.”  The real truth is that the Iraqi government has said that all US troops will be out of Iraq.

As far as “interfering in Iraqi affairs”, Iran and Iraq have engaged in many cooperative efforts over the past few years.

News Flash Hillary:  Iran and Iraq are already strengthening their ties and have been for several years.

In July of 2011, Iran and Iraq agreed to increase the value of their bilateral trade to $20 billion in the near future.“We agree to increase the value of mutual economic and trade exchange, which is expected to reach 10 billion dollars by the end of the current year, to 20 billion dollars in the near future,” Iran’s First Vice-President Mohammadreza Rahimi told reporters in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on Thursday, IRNA reported. .  .”

In addition, I remember reading about a year ago that Iraq and Iran had teamed up to study the increase in dust storms plaguing both nations since the USA invasion and occupation.  The joint team are working for solutions to alleviate the problem.  The dust storms today are particularly deadly since the dust is contaminated with depleted uranium (DU) from all the spent US munitions.  But thanks to the trade winds, it won’t just be Iraq and Iran whose people are made ill by this poisonous dust, it will affect all people in all four corners of our world.

The trouble with Hillary?  In fact, the trouble with most of Washington is that they adhere to a policy of coercive  democracy.

In 2008 the Financial times quoted Hillary as saying:   “I believe in coercive diplomacy,” she said. “You try to figure out how to move bad actors in a direction that you’d prefer in order to avoid more dire consequences.” [Note from ILWQ:  In a pinch, this statement could stand in for the definition of a co-dependent who "knows best" for all others.]

There is no coercive diplomacy without coercion. You cannot bluff on every hand. Threats of force lost their power in 1999 when Mr Clinton’s secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, tried to harangue Serbia into evacuating Kosovo. Slobodan Milosevic, the former Serbian president, called America’s bluff, forcing a European war that Nato came within a whisker of losing. When September 11 happened two years later, the bank of credible threats was overdrawn. A threat of war meant a war.

Washington’s conception of US power is outdated. It rests on a willingness to interfere in the internal workings of sovereign countries. That requires force, and it is doubtful whether the tools of force are even still effective.

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ILWQ:  What can you do about it?

You can get your ass down to your city’s Occupy Wall Street site today and start talking and planning for real change in 2012–not merely a changing of the guard.  A policy of coercive democracy is nothing more than colonial imperialism.  Until we replace Congress with Independent non-Wall Street investors who are not millionaires [and who are]  from the 99% who do not adhere to a policy of coercive democracy, little will change.  Therefore:  Run for office as an Independent in 2012!  Support a friend’s campaign for office as an Independent.  Vote for Jill Stein for President.  We have many choices.  Some of them we still need to create and others are there merely waiting to select in 2012.  We don’t have to settle for Democrat or Republican.