Iranian Progressives Still Want Nukes

Good article by Robert Wright.

I think it's a very awkward thing right now that many Western countries want to sanction Iran to prevent them from getting nuclear weapons. They say they want to target the Revolutionary Guard not the people, but actually I think nuclear technology, which includes weapons, are very important to the people. So if they really elected someone who was popular and more democratic, things would not get any easier, and they would still have to sanction Iran.

Unrest in Iran

Americans didn't take to the streets when Bush won in 2000 or 2004.

Kind of exciting. Perhaps there will be a revolution.

I think it'll be historic.

Clinton the Neocon

In case it wasn't abundantly clear to you, Hillary Clinton is a neocon.

Clinton made the statement about Iran on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Tuesday.

"I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran [if it attacked Israel]," Clinton said. "In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them."

Not long after Obama weighed in Sunday on Clinton's remark, she was asked if she stood by her statement on ABC's "This Week."

She stuck with her message, saying warnings of "massive retaliation" are needed to keep the Islamic republic in check.

Obama, addressing Clinton's statement about Iran, said, "We have had a foreign policy of bluster and saber-rattling and tough talk, and in the meantime have made a series of strategic decisions that have actually strengthened Iran."

Israel is "the most important ally" the United States has in the Middle East, and that Washington would respond "forcefully and appropriately" to any attack, Obama said Sunday.

"But it is important that we use language that sends a signal to the world community that we're shifting from the sort of cowboy diplomacy, or lack of diplomacy, that we've seen out of George Bush," he said. "And this kind of language is not helpful."

"When Iran is able to go to the United Nations complaining about the statements made and get some sympathy, that's a sign that we are taking the wrong approach," Obama said.

Clinton is Crazy

On Tuesday, Clinton said something about obliterating Iran. On its face, you could say that well, she said we could obliterate Iran if they attacked Israel, which is completely reasonable! The problem is that it gets people in the mode of thinking about Iran as an enemy.

For all your readers who falsely equate Hillary Clinton's genocidal threat as a measured response to the alleged remarks of Iran's Pres. Ahmadinejad, I say: Ahmadinejad has NEVER said that Iran would or should "wipe Israel off the map". This is a lie, a deliberate mistranslation and a myth that is being perpetuated, without anyone checking its veracity. I am Iranian and know what he said and it is not this. Ahmadinejad - like many others - is opposed to a Zionist and ethnicity-based state, especially at the expense of the native inhabitants, who are the Palestinians. What he wants is, in effect, a 'regime change', which he later explained was of the type that happened in the USSR, which disappeared from the map, without war. His interviews are on YouTube. Before you believe these lies that your media are telling you think: Iran is against Israel because of Palesitinians. Any Iranian hypothetical Iranian nuclear attack on Israel, would also "wipe out" the Palestinians, who are living cheek by jowl with the Israelis, off the map, plus Islam's second holiest place, Jerusalem. Think, people and look at a map before believing everything that Fox tells you!