Iran_Next

Why Iran will be next. At 9:34 PM EST on March 19, 2003 (5:34 AM local time in Baghdad on March 20), United States and United Kingdom forces consisting of 40 cruise missiles and strikes led by 2 F-117s from the 8th Fighter Squadron (supported by Navy EA-6B Prowlers) and other aircraft began conducting military operations against the state of Iraq designed to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction and to remove the Iraqi Regime from power. Less than two hours after a deadline expired for Saddam Hussein to leave Iraq, the sound of air raid sirens were heard in Baghdad. A short time later, President Bush addressed the American public stating that coalition forces were in the "early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger." Source -- http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraqi_freedom_d1.htm Operation Iraqi Freedom had begun. The reason for war, according to American president George Bush, was to rid Iraq from a “homicidal dictator” named Saddam Hussein, and to rid the world of a tyrant that was “addicted to weapons of mass destruction”. Source http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021007-8.html Was that the real reasons for war' I concur that ridding a country of a “homicidal dictator” is a noble idea so a quick look at www.dictionary.com reveals that the meaning of “homicidal” is: capable of or conducive to bloodshed; "a cutthroat rogue"; "a homicidal rage"; "murderous thugs" Too right then that George Bush wanted this “cutthroat rogue” ousted from power to save the lives of Iraqi’s! But is this really what happened' Was Bush’s war about protecting the Iraqi people from a ruthless “dictator”' According to a UNICEF report in 1999 it reported that 500,000 Iraqi children had died in the previous 8 years because of sanctions that the West imposed on Iraq. 500,000 innocent children were murdered by the West and they called Saddam a “homicidal dictator”! A January 22, 1991, Defence Intelligence Agency report titled “Iraq Water Treatment Vulnerabilities” noted, Iraq depends on importing specialized equipment and some chemicals to purify its water supply, most of which is heavily mineralized and frequently brackish to saline.... Failing to secure supplies will result in a shortage of pure drinking water for much of the population. This could lead to increased incidences, if not epidemics, of disease.... Unless the water is purified with chlorine, epidemics of such diseases as cholera, hepatitis, and typhoid could occur. –one reason for the deaths! Sanctions caused the deaths of these children and all the evidence is there to prove it, categorically, but George Bush and Tony Blair seen things a little differently when on the 27th March 2003 at a joint press conference Tony Blair declared, Over the past five years, 400,000 Iraqi children under the age of five died of malnutrition and disease, preventively, but died because of the nature of the regime under which they are living. Now, that is why we’re acting. Well, Tony suggests 400,000 children and UNICEF say 500,000. It’s only the difference of 100,000 children’s lives! In a report in October 2004 in the Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7967-2004Oct28.html it was reported that around 100,000 INNOCENT CIVILIANS had been killed since the U.S lead invasion in March the previous year. What this information tells us is that at a bear minimum at least 600,000 innocent civilians have died and left blood on the hands of the U.N, U.K and U.S.A. They can justify this war by casting up unproven allegations that Saddam gassed Kurds when it is still unclear wither it was indeed Iraq or Iran that carried out this attack when around 20,000 Kurds were murdered. It probably was Saddam, but maybe it wasn’t. How can this be used as a pretext to an invasion of a country when NO evidence has ever been provided by the West to prove that Saddam actually carried out this atrocity. Then again when one looks at all the evidence that the U.S and their minions in the British establishment put on display to support their allegations that Iraq had W.M.D and links to Al Qaeda and see that it was all lies and deceit what difference would evidence have made in relation to the lose of 20,000 Kurdish lives' The neo-cons had reasons for invading Iraq and not one of them are listed above. This talk of “liberating”, “freeing”, “W.M.D”, “War on Terror”, “Axis of Evil”, “Dictatorship” and all the rest of the jargon that has spilled from their mouths has never been the reason they invaded the Middle East. The reason for war in Iraq is the “Petrodollar”. At the end of 2005 the U.S national debt stood at 7.7 trillion dollars and the entire debt of America stood at 43 trillion dollars. The average American spends the majority of their pay cheques on the interest of their debt alone. America’s economy is reliant on the petrodollar as without it the country instantly becomes bankrupt. So what is the “petrodollar'” Well a brief, but informative description can be found here, www.investopedia.com were it states the definition as: Petrodollars refers to the money that Middle Eastern countries and members of OPEC receive as revenue from Western nations and then put back into those same nations' banks. For example if Libya were to receive money from the U.S. for oil and then put the money into a U.S. bank, that deposited money is referred to as petrodollars. In essence, America imports oil from Saudi Arabia, paid for in American dollars which OPEC place in an American Bank. Therefore the money never actually leaves the States and gives the American administration an unrestricted credit card limit, if you will, hence the debt that America is in. It is spending money belonging to other nations that it does not have a means to repay. Short sighted in approach, yes, but such is the capitalist outlook. But things began to change in late 2000, November to be precise, when a shrewd Saddam Hussein, frustrated at the West’s sanctions, decided to sell oil for the Euro and not the American dollar which sent shock waves right through America’s economic community. At this time Iraq was exporting 3.3 billion barrels of oil of which the U.S bought 2.5billion barrels (almost 2/3 of Iraq’s exports) but Saddam insisted that they had to pay in Euro. As the Federal Reserve can’t print Euro it had to change its exporting laws to allow countries to pay for American exports in Euro so they could fund their oil imports from Iraq. Britain, Europe and the U.S positions were threatened by Saddam’s stance on the petrodollar as he could have quite easily destroyed the American economy and brought the world’s only super power to its knees due to bankruptcy. As Americans consume on average 20 million barrels of oil a day and 60% of that is imported you can see the reason why they would see Iraq as an “interest” considering Iraq had approximately 100 million barrels of oil reserves with the capacity of doubling or tripling that figure according to Fadel Gheit an Oil Analyst from Manhattan. He goes on to state that in the early 70’s the U.S administration had struck a deal with the Saudis in securing a continuous supply of oil in return for money and arms. This worked well for a time as when the deal was struck the cost of a barrel of crude oil was $2 but by 1981 it had risen to a staggering $42 a barrel. At this time America had set about looking for alternative sources and had its eye fixed sternly on Iraq. The job of the “coalition forces” was to FIRST secure the oil fields when they invaded Iraq. But the media failed to spend much time reporting this and instead concentrated their efforts in broadcasting home the pictures of the “shock `n` awe” campaign. An operation that was spectacular to view from the comfort of your settee thousands of miles away. An operation that insured bums on seats and viewing figures unlike the reporting of securing oil fields, that wasn’t very interesting to the already conditioned viewers of western media. Oil fields are now secure as are the contracts for production which went to British and American companies and NOT the Germans or the French that Saddam had previously agreed to sell contracts to once sanctions were lifted. Ever wonder why it was the French and Germans (Franco-German) that opposed the war' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2293815.stm Next phase is getting the pipes repaired so that Iraq can start pumping out some crude oil so as to pay for this invasion. May 2003, the U.S insured that all oil trading from Iraq would be carried out in American dollars when they done away with the Saddam’s old way payment via the Euro even though at this time the Euro was 17% richer than the dollar!!! Why would America want to wipe out 17% of their profits by favouring the American Dollar' Their economy is not built on the Euro. Sure they can simply convert it into $ but in order to remain a super power you need your own currency and be prepared to fight to save it. So how does Iran fit into all this' Are they not in Bush’s “Axis of Evil”' Well everyone’s in Bush’s Axis of Evil so why not Iran' Iran has continuously denounced America as “The Spawn of Satan” and seems to avoid fear at all costs. They have stated that they will attack Israel if the U.S attacks them. They have made calls for Israel to be “wiped off the map” which did them no favours as it has given the Americans another reason to insist that Iran’s ambition is to build nuclear weapons and to put more pressure on the world to “disarm Iran”. I think in terms of military capacity there is no questions of who would reign supremacy should an all out conflict be declared by the U.S by Iran are daring as much as dangerous and they are working to bring down the Super Power of the U.S.A in a similar fashion to what Saddam choice, albeit to his demise. Iran has challenged the U.S on the world stage for control of the “black gold” (oil). Standing brave and prepared Iran is egging the Bush Administration on for in 2006 Iran is to setup it’s own oil trading exchange that WILL AGAIN threaten London and New York’s economy the way Saddam did. The currency that Iran will trade in is the Euro. Bold as brass Iran goes all out and has offered all of the world’s oil producers to trade oil with them in the same currency, the Euro. Saudi Arabia, that has the world’s largest oil reserves, is already contemplating the switch from the standard trade currency of the American dollar and if they do all other countries will follow suit thus economic ruin for the U.S. Is the U.S going to allow this to occur' Is the U.S going to stand idly by and let the countries of the world switch to the Euro which will see the United States of America lose its place as a world super power by losing the petrodollar' If not, how far is the U.S prepared to go to stay No.1' If Iran gains support for its transformation policy from Dollar to Euro, which it will, then America’s position will be threatened and therefore they will attack like an animal defending its territory. America fails to see that its idea of freedom is deluded and deranged and not acceptable to a large proportion of the world’s population. Democracy does not necessarily mean freedom! They have a solution though, if the people don’t accept their idea of democracy it will forced upon them,. Iran are preparing for war with the U.S with the belief that America’s resources are already stretched to their limit with Iraq and Afghanistan. They clearly see that America used Iraq as a warning to other “rogue states” to obey their every call or else. They clearly see that American failed miserably in their objective. With almost three times the population of Iraq and an extremely harsher terrain it will indeed not be an easy task for the West to invade Iran. But they will if Iran threatens the economic stability of the U.S by trading oil in Euro as it will see other nations to follow suit. The West say they are concerned with Iran’s nuclear program and their aim of building nuclear weapons although they have no problem with bordering Pakistan and India having such weapons and indeed have them pointed at each other. Iran insists their nuclear program is energy based but America has evidence to prove otherwise. Will we ever see this evidence' When we do will it be verified' So what if they do have nuclear weapons' Is Iran any greater threat to the freedoms of the people on this planet than America' Don’t do as we do, do as we say seems to be the neo-con global policy against states that don’t support their ideas of democracy or freedom. Phil Watson