Justin Raimondo's latest piece over at Antiwar.com focuses on some very disturbing words from Obama. Barack may be better on Iraq than McCain, but his belligerent language about Iran is chilling.
Obama to AIPAC: "I will do everything in my power to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Everything in my power. Everything."--Barack Obama
As Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert prepares to ask Bush to assist in attacks on potential nuclear sites in Iran, the Democratic presidential candidate is stating that he will stop at NOTHING to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, even though, as Raimondo puts it:
"Everything" includes murdering tens of thousands of Iranians, mostly civilians – driving the price of oil up above $300 a barrel and destroying the US economy – and involving us in a war that will make the Iraq conflict look like a Sunday school picnic. And for what?
The irony, of course, is that Iran is nowhere near obtaining nuclear weapons, as the President's own intelligence agencies recently informed him: but no matter. That's a small obstacle to those who disdain "the reality-based community," and see themselves as Making History while the rest of us watch, helpless and aghast. As Ha'aretz recently reported"
Dark times are ahead. It seems that regardless of who replaces Bush in '09, the empire will not tone down its war mongering, nor will it even BEGIN to consider the broader consequences of its actions.
Whoever wins in November (though this impending disaster will likely start befor then), it looks like our government will not back away from a disastrous war with Iran... or Syria... or Lebanon... and so on. Screw the American people, and the Iranian people... as usual.
Check out Raimondo's article for more.
PS-- Here is Obama's full speech to AIPAC , which Raimondo also provides in his article. (note that Obama asserts right off the bat that he considers the "bond between the United States and Israel" to be "unbreakable today... tomorrow... and forever.)
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I read this story this morning. Thought you'd find it interesting.
An Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites looks “unavoidable” given the apparent failure of sanctions to deny Tehran technology with bomb-making potential, one of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s deputies said Friday.
“If Iran continues with its program for developing nuclear weapons, we will attack it. The sanctions are ineffective,” Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz told the mass-circulation Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
“Attacking Iran, in order to stop its nuclear plans, will be unavoidable,” said the former army chief who has also been defense minister
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