Originally published February 26 2006
Columnist says Iran is being targeted by conservative press
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
For the Palestine Chronicle, Paul Craig Roberts tackles the issue of Iran's nuclear arms and how the conservative press is ratcheting up its rhetoric to justify a looming conflict with Iran's leaders.
It was not considered unpatriotic to take the side of the Constitution and civil liberty against a sitting government, even if the government were Republican.
York doesn't understand why former US Representative Bob Barr lent his Republican conservative credentials to former Vice President Al Gore's speech against President Bush's transgressions against law and civil liberty, or why Barr is associating with liberals opposing the "Patriot" Act.
Barr is the former Republican member of the House of Representatives who led the impeachment against President Bill Clinton.
Barr did so not out of political partisanship.
If the US had more leaders of Barr's caliber, Bush and Cheney would already have been impeached.
Iran is portrayed as a threat because the country's new president has used threatening rhetoric against Israel.
It doesn't occur to the editorialists that Iranians might see the nuclear weapons of Israel and the US as intolerable threats.
Unlike Iran, Israel does have nuclear weapons.
In view of this overpowering fact, it is difficult to see why Bush and Wall Street Journal editorialists think the US needs to protect Israel from Iran.
Iran does not require nuclear weapons in order to do all the things the editorialists marshall in their case against Iran.
Indeed, a US or Israeli attack on Iran is likely to precipitate the dire deeds that the editorialists fear: a Shia uprising in Iraq, disruption of oil supplies, closing of the Straits of Hormuz, and terrorist attacks throughout the Middle East.
The US invasion force is tied down by a few thousand insurgents drawn from a Sunni population of merely 5 million people, and Iraq has become, according to the CIA, a recruiting and training ground for terrorists.
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