Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Iran: Bush’s Roadblock at the Security Council

by Mike Whitney - Url.: http://www.opednews.com

March 14, 2006 - Surveys were conducted months before the war on Iraq which showed that the American people would only support the conflict if there was a danger that Saddam was developing nuclear weapons. Other questions in the poll addressed the issues of humanitarian intervention, Saddam’s abysmal human rights record, and the prospect that Iraq had stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons.

None of these other potential threats mattered to the American people. The only issue that gained majority support for war was whether Saddam had nukes. It’s obvious now that the findings of that poll became the cornerstone of the administration’s public relations strategy.

BOGUS CLAIMS ABOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAMS

Bottom line: The Bush-Cheney plans for shaping public opinion will continue to depend on bogus claims about nuclear weapons programs. This explains why the administration and their agents in the MSM are intentionally misleading the public about the true nature of Iran’s nuclear program; it is the only way to elicit support for another war of aggression.

This also explains the furor over the Niger uranium fabrication which discredited the administration and resulted in the “outing” of Valerie Plame and the “swift-boating” of Joe Wilson. Cheney knew that the nuclear-link was crucial to hoodwinking the American people and could not allow Wilson to expose his lies.

The very same strategy is being used to demonize Iran. The IAEA has repeatedly said that there is “no evidence of a nuclear weapons program”, and yet, the administration continues to mislead public without a shred of proof to the contrary.

IN THE LAST WEEK, THE UNITED STATES HAS HAD AT LEAST TWO OPPORTUNITIES TO RESOLVE THE STANDOFF THROUGH PEACEFUL MEANS. INSTEAD, THEY TORPEDOED BOTH DEALS AND INTENSIFIED THE BELLIGERENCE.

Why?

It was astonishing to watch Condi Rice hit the panic-button as soon as Iran’s foreign-minister offered to give up “industrial enrichment” of uranium if the IAEA would refrain from bringing the case before the Security Council. This was a “huge” concession on the part of Iran. They were giving up their legal rights under the treaty (NPT) and asking for nothing in return.

Condi’s reaction?

She called IAEA chief ElBaradei straight away insisting that,” The US cannot support this!”

CANNOT SUPPORT WHAT? NEGOTIATION? DELIBERATION? PEACE?

The State Dept made no attempt to explore the Iranian offer or see whether it would lead to greater concessions. It was simply dismissed outright.

It’s not hard to figure out what that means as far as the chances for peace.

The State Dept reacted the same way earlier in the week when Russia and Iran were working out the details for enriching uranium outside of the country as a “confidence building” measure. Once again, State Dept. officials immediately rejected the “good faith” offer without pursuing further negotiations.

The obvious implication is that Washington wants another war and will subvert any attempt at negotiation or diplomacy.

WHAT ELSE COULD IT MEAN?

Today’s headlines are reiterating the same hogwash: “Iran Spurns Russian Proposal” (SF Chronicle) or “Iran Ruling out Russia in Nuclear Plan” (CNN) or “Iran Rejects Russian offer to Diffuse Nuclear Dispute” (NY Times). This is how the media uses the corporate-bullhorn to create the impression that Iran is being “defiant”.

BALONEY.

True, Iran has consistently maintained that it would not concede its rights under the treaty (NPT) but they have limited their demands to small amounts of uranium in a research and development program to be overseen by the IAEA inspection team.

WHO COULD OBJECT TO THAT?

The media has deliberately misled the public about the Russian negotiations as well as who was responsible for their ultimate failure. The New York Times admits this in their March 13 article by Nazila Fathi:

“Russia had offered to enrich uranium for Iran for use for energy purposes if Iran would refrain from doing so. It made a last minute face-saving offer to allow Iran to continue some enrichment for research purposes but withdrew the offer under Western pressure.”

“WESTERN PRESSURE”?

What the Times means is that Russia “withdrew the offer under United States pressure”, because Bush and company have no intention of allowing ANY settlement to take place no matter how conciliatory or personally-compromising.

But didn’t Iran’s foreign minister say that “The Russian deal is no longer on the agenda”?

YES AND NO.

Iran said that it wants to see what the Security Council does before they make any more decisions. As for the precise statement by Iran’s foreign minister:

“As for the Russian proposal, if it considers Iran’s right to conduct research in Iran on its own soil, it can be a topic of negotiation, because the right to conduct research in Iran is the Islamic Republic’s right that we neither want to give up nor will give up”.

Hamid Reza Asefi’s statement is a straightforward defense of the basic terms of the treaty (NPT) a treaty to which the United States is also a signatory and has clear obligations. Should Asefi simply toss the “internationally-approved” treaty on the burn-pile because it no longer fits within the Bush administration’s foreign policy strategy?

YES, ACCORDING TO BUSH.

The media’s role in demonizing Iran cannot be overstated, nor can we really appreciate the extent of US recalcitrance without following the minutia of daily statements and demands. The United States has elevated the issue of Iran’s imaginary nuclear weapons program to crisis level. We must assume that its part of the broader scheme to incite violence and spread the Iraq war throughout the region.

Total war? - [FPF: 'Total War' - the other Reich - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/kqa8o]

ISN’T THAT WHERE ALL THIS BLUSTER AND HARASSMENT IS HEADED?

But will the Bush administration be able to win UN Security Council approval for their war plans? Will there be sanctions?

No! No sanctions and no resolution condemning Iran’s program.

The New York Times reported on Friday that, “A draft document, which the Council members have indicated they hope to issue next week as a nonbinding presidential statement, says the Council continues to hope for a negotiated solution ‘that guarantees Iran’s nuclear program is for exclusively peaceful purposes.”

“A nonbinding presidential statement”?

This is what we have been saying here for months and now the NY Times is reluctantly confirming it. There are no grounds for “punitive action” because Iran is not in “noncompliance”. The entire matter has only reached this level of attention because the inordinate amount of raw power and arm-twisting the US can bring to bear in foreign affairs.

“A nonbinding presidential statement” is the equivalent of saying, “We have no proof that you are doing anything illegal, but we will scold you anyway”.

It is an empty statement which has no legal precedent or authority and infers nothing about violations to the NPT. It is strictly a gratuitous proclamation designed to placate the war-mongering occupants of the Bush White House.

The Bush administration has no proof that Iran has violated the terms of its treaty.

The IAEA has no proof that Iran has violated the terms of its treaty.

The UN Security Council has no proof that Iran has violated the terms of its treaty.

The whole fiasco has been orchestrated to deceive the public and pave the way for war.

[andend] - The story is at Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ghebu
 
Mike lives in Washington State with his charming wife Joan and two spoiled and overfed dogs, Cocoa and Pat-Fergie.

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* "Sarah, if the American people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - George Bush Senior speaking in an interview with Sarah McClendon in December 1992. - And here's why: 'George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography' - by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin - Chapter - II - The Hitler Project - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/57qxk

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* Anti-propaganda: On the Net - Reporters Committee - Url.: http://www.rcfp.org/

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* 'Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one' — A.J. Liebling - The infamous US 'Lie Factory' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ncal

* The 9/11 WTC drama was by the PNAC criminals planned terror - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/b7ygk - It was an inside job - Google - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7tj9d

* Nobel Literature Prize Laureate and 'Gulag Holocaust' survivor Alexander Solzjenitsyn investigated the origin of the 'Russian Revolution' and the concentration camps: he published and was damned - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/qth6z

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* MSNBC - Live Vote - Concerning the "Project for a Nefarious American Century" (PNAC) - ''Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment?'' - YES: 86% - Url.: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/

*Read the Fightin' Cock Flyer - Url.: http://fightincockflyer.blogspot.com/

* THE ONLY SOLUTION? - Help all the troops - of whatever nationality - to come back from abroad! - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE ARE FORCED TO PAY FOR BY TAXES - [http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm] - We need them badly at home in many countries to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

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Professionals killed Milosevic

ANY TRACE OF THE DRUG DISAPPEARED WITHIN TWO DAYS

Slobodan Milosevic's son said Tuesday that the former Yugoslav president had been murdered at the detention center of the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague. "He got killed, he didn't die. He got killed. There is a murder," Marko Milosevic told AP Television News in Amsterdam. With him a team of four Russian doctors arrived at The Netherlands main airport Schiphol. Milosevic's body - after the state autopsy by the dutch 'authorities' and their claim of a 'natural death' through a heart attack - will be taken to Moscow. To be buried later, after the four doctors have done their own autopsy on whatever is left to them...

by Henk Ruyssenaars

FPF-The Netherlands - March 14th 2006 - First of all: the pharmaceutical multinational* making the drug found in Milosevic blood confirm - like other toxicologists - that any trace of Rifampicin will have disappeared within two days.
Secondly: it is not a conspiracy. It's only concerning facts which already are known, and others we don't have yet. But many of those facts confirm that former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was murdered, as most of the paper's headlines in former Yugoslavia and other countries describe it.

The official NATO court's version which the mainstream media use is: "Slobodan Milosevic deliberately took this drug to neutralise the effects of his heart medicine, so that the The Hague 'court' would let him travel to Russia for treatment. But he died." - Milosevic was found dead in his cell last Saturday morning at the U-N. detention center near The Hague, and again rises the eternal question asked about any political liquidation: Who Profits?

NATO: WE OWN THE COURT

The people which profit are all those who - like all Dutch war criminals - http://tinyurl.com/662pp) - do not want to remember what was said at the NATO (PNAC*/US) Press Conference in Brussels on the 17th of May 1999 by NATO's mouthpieces Jamie Shea and Major General W. Jertz: we pay and run the Court. They don't move or lift a finger without NATO. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/l4yhd

Milosevic was getting too dangerous and had literally to be the 'fall guy' to keep the NATO war criminals out of jail. The former Yugoslavian president is in an according to NATO 'perfect state' now: silent about all their lies and war crimes. Their inhuman PNAC policy for profit.*

Professor Donald Uges of Groningen university on Dutch national radio last Sunday night* stated that he earlier was asked for a second opinion, and anew inspected a blood sample, after Milosevic's blood pressure failed to respond to medication given by doctors at the U-N. detention center and Milosevic himself complained about trying to poison him. Which he probably wouldn't do, if he was pulling the 'Rifampicin trick' himself, an effect which only 'professionals' of the secret service killer squads and some toxicologists knew about.

In the same radio interview Sunday night March 12th 2006 - with the Dutch State's channel NOS - Uges said that ''one has to be very specialized to even know about this drug which has had a neutralizing effect on the medication Milosevic was taking for high blood pressure.''

Critics noted, however, that Milosevic was the fourth inmate to die at the tribunal's detention center in Scheveningen, outside the Dutch capital, where the star witness in - Times (UK) - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/kq5mf

MILOSEVIC COMPLAINED TO HIS ATTORNEY THAT HE WAS BEING POISONED

The day before Milosevic died, releasing his soul to reside in that unpleasant realm reserved for corrupt rulers who lead their nations into unjust wars (Mr. Bush, take note), Slobodan Milosevic complained to his attorney that he was being poisoned. After the former ruler of Yugoslavia was found dead in his cell in a UN detention facility near The Hague on March 10, Zdenko Tmanovic told reporters that Milosevic had complained of being given “strong drugs ... only used for treating leprosy or tuberculosis.” - Rifampicin*

TREATMENT FOR HIS HEART CONDITION WAS DENIED

For several weeks, the erstwhile Serbian strongman had requested permission from the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia to travel to Russia to receive treatment for his heart condition; that request was denied. He had also tried to subpoena former US President Bill Clinton as a defense witness, another request that almost certainly would have been turned down. - [http://tinyurl.com/rsvv3]

One of the best articles this far is ''Rest Easy, Bill Clinton: Milosevic Can't Talk Anymore'' by Jeremy Scahill, stating "In his opening statement, Milosevic alluded to some of the information he would introduce during his defense. "In 1998 when [Clinton envoy Richard] Holbrooke visited us in Belgrade, we told him the information we had at our disposal, that in Northern Albania the KLA is being aided by Osama bin Laden, that he was arming, training, and preparing the members of this terrorist organisation in Albania. However, they decided to cooperate with the KLA and indirectly, therefore, with bin Laden, although before that he had bombed the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania [and] had already declared war." Milosevic concluded that "one day all this will have to come to light, these links."

THAT, HOWEVER, IS UNLIKELY AND MORE SO NOW THAT MILOSEVIC IS DEAD.

To be sure, there will never be indictments of these US war criminals at the Hague: Bill Clinton, Madeline Albright, Jamie Rubin, William Cohen, Sandy Berger, Richard Holbrooke and Wesley Clark. For many of Serbia's victims of US war crimes, Milosevic's trial was a "Hail Mary" pass, as awful of an historical irony as that is, aimed at someone recognizing their forgotten suffering.

It is a sad testimony to the state of international jurisprudence that after many attempts to find justice, the only hope for US victims in the Yugoslavia wars was the trial defense of a man many of those same victims despised. If there was an independent international court that was recognized and respected by the US, those responsible for bombing Yugoslavia would have been alongside Slobodan Milosevic in the docks these past years instead of having their responsibility being buried with him.

[andend] - Do read the rest please: Published on Monday, March 13, 2006 by CommonDreams.org - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/gos2z

Jeremy Scahill is an independent journalist who spent extensive time reporting from Yugoslavia, including covering the 1999 US-led NATO bombing from the ground. The night Milosevic was arrested in Belgrade, Scahill was beaten by the former president's supporters outside Milosevic's residence. He has also reported from Milosevic's trial in the Hague. Scahill is currently a Puffin Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute. He can be reached at jeremy(at)democracynow.org

Related: Google's selection conc. Milosevic - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/zjk9m

Google selection: " Web Results 1-10 of about 30,100 for "U.N. war crimes tribunal" +deaths. " - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/gpebm

Netherlands State Broadcasting Corporation - NOS - March 12th 2006 - Milosevic info in Dutch - Url.: http://www.nos.nl/nosjournaal/archief/index.html

FPF/HR & NATO's crimes - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/hjdrc

Who can induce heart-attack on a victim anytime at his home, office/workplace, vehicle, etc. or everywhere? - "The CIA project apparently started with an undated, unsigned note indicating concern about the vulnerability of US leaders to assassination by 'natural causes'." - Source: "Assassination by 'Natural Causes' - CIA Considered Inducing Death", WASHINGTON POST,  4/2/79 -- Url.: http://tinyurl.com/n5yz9

Google selection: " Web  Results 1 - 10 of about 30,100 for "U.N. war crimes tribunal" +deaths. " - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/gpebm

Rifampicin - Wikipedia info - Url.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifampicin

Varkevisser e.a. - "The State of Emergency in Serbia and the Slow Murder of Slobodan Milosevic''- Url.: http://tinyurl.com/gph5p

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* HOLOCAUST BY THE CIA: John Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1976, working for then Director of the CIA, George Bush. ''How 6 million People Were killed in CIA secret wars against Third World countries'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/gpcg

* "Sarah, if the American people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - George Bush Senior speaking in an interview with Sarah McClendon in December 1992. - And here's why: 'George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography' - by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin - Chapter - II - The Hitler Project - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/57qxk

* Global Predators - ‘Frauds-R-Us’ - The Bush Family Saga - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/elarx

* This is a running total of the U.S. taxpayer cost of the Iraq War. The number is based on US Congressional appropriations. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cfsrc

* The 9/11 drama: Anybody who after seeing this video - '9/11 revisited' - still believes the version from the 'PNAC pack' - the Washington cabal - is beyond all professional help - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/r5sx4

* The Global Elite: Who are they? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/c5xv5

* White Haus drive to cover-up leaks concerning their crimes - PNAC-propaganda sheet Washington Post: ''White House Trains Efforts on Media Leaks Sources, Reporters Could Be Prosecuted'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/e7t6o

* Anti-propaganda: On the Net - Reporters Committee - Url.: http://www.rcfp.org/

* US War & Propaganda machine: Rumsfeld Declares War on Bad Press - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/loxqy

* ABC - US propaganda: "US military will continue to pay Iraqi media to publish reports favourable to American forces" - Url.: http://abcnews.go.com/US/print?id=1683768

* 'Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one' — A.J. Liebling - The infamous US 'Lie Factory' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ncal

* The 9/11 WTC drama was by the PNAC criminals planned terror - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/b7ygk - It was an inside job - Google - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7tj9d

* Nobel Literature Prize Laureate and 'Gulag Holocaust' survivor Alexander Solzjenitsyn investigated the origin of the 'Russian Revolution' and the concentration camps: he published and was damned - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/qth6z

* Who's financing? - The 'Federal Reserve' and it's usurers is the absolute biggest crime against all humanity ever. - Url.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm

* MSNBC - Live Vote - Concerning the "Project for a Nefarious American Century" (PNAC) - ''Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment?'' - YES: 86% - Url.: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/

*Read the Fightin' Cock Flyer - Url.: http://fightincockflyer.blogspot.com/

* THE ONLY SOLUTION? - Help all the troops - of whatever nationality - to come back from abroad! - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE ARE FORCED TO PAY FOR BY TAXES - [http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm] - We need them badly at home in many countries to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

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