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All Americans want to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons and interfering on the ground inside Iraq. Yet President Bush’s saber rattling gives the US little additional leverage to engage and dissuade Iran, and, more than likely, simply accelerates a dangerous slide into war. The United States can do better than this.
Whatever the pace of Iran’s nuclear efforts, in the give and take of the Administration’s rhetoric and accusations, we are approaching the last moments to head off looming conflict.
Cannot the world’s most powerful nation deign speak to the resentful and scheming regional power that is Iran? Can we not speak of the interests of others, work to establish a sustained dialogue, and seek to benefit the people of Iran and the region? Could not such a dialogue, properly conducted, begin a process that could, over time, help realign hardened attitudes and polarizing views within the region? And isn’t it easier to undertake such a dialogue now, before more die, and more martyrs are created to feed extremist passions?
Please join the Iraq War veterans at VoteVets.org and me and sign the petition to President Bush today. Military force against Iran is not the solution now, and if we adopt the right strategy, perhaps it need never be. Urge him to work with our allies and use every diplomatic, political, and economic option at our disposal to deal with Iran. War is not the answer.
Greetings my friend..thank you for continuing to support a peace effort for Iran. War is indeed not an answer for anything. I changed the name of my site from choose tolerance choose love to Where is the Love?..I don't think anyone knows where the love is! But they know where the oil is.. Angellyn
At first I thought she said it to drum up votes, but now I realize she's not after votes, she's after money. Right-wing-hate-radio and FOX-News money. She has played the "kill the rag-heads" card -- and Wes Clark didn't stop her! Go to my blog to read more.
Top Bush aids pushed for torture tactics used at Guantanamo. http://www. guardian. co. uk/world/2008/apr/19/guantanamo. usa Philippe Sands QC uncovers details of interrogation techniques at Guantánamo Bay America's most senior general was "hoodwinked" by top Bush administration officials determined to push through aggressive interrogation techniques of terror suspects held at Guantánamo Bay, leading to the US military abandoning its age-old ban on the cruel and inhumane treatment of prisoners, the Guardian reveals today. General Richard Myers, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff from 2001 to 2005, wrongly believed that inmates at Guantánamo and other prisons were protected by the Geneva conventions and from abuse tantamount to torture. The way he was duped by senior officials in Washington, who believed the Geneva conventions and other traditional safeguards were out of date, is disclosed in a devastating account of their role, extracts of which appear in today's Guardian. In his new book, Torture Team, Philippe Sands QC, professor of law at University College London, reveals that: • Senior Bush administration figures pushed through previously outlawed measures with the aid of inexperienced military officials at Guantánamo. • Myers believes he was a victim of "intrigue" by top lawyers at the department of justice, the office of vice-president Dick Cheney, and at Donald Rumsfeld's defence department. • The Guantánamo lawyers charged with devising interrogation techniques were inspired by the exploits of Jack Bauer in the American TV series 24. • Myers wrongly believed interrogation techniques had been taken from the army's field manual. The lawyers, all political appointees, who pushed through the interrogation techniques were Alberto Gonzales, David Addington and William Haynes. Also involved were Doug Feith, Rumsfeld's under-secretary for policy, and Jay Bybee and John Yoo, two assistant attorney generals. The
I guess war with Iran is now a certainty now they stopped trading oil in US dollars. Wait for the false flag terrorist attack any minute..."Iran did it, lets get em" Simple as that, all the sheeple said amen.
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
