By: John King, March 2003
This Chronology contains multiple illegal violations of the Reagan-Bush era and contributes very clear intent for what would later happen under the Bush II regime.
On 3 July 1988 the U.S. Navy shot down Iran Air Flight 655 with the loss of all 290 passengers and crew. The American government claimed that the airliner had been mistaken for an Iranian F-14 Tomcat, and that the U.S.S. Vincennes was operating in international waters at the time and feared that it was under attack, which later appeared to be untrue. The Iranians, however, maintain that the Vincennes was in fact in Iranian territorial waters, and that the Iranian passenger jet was turning away and increasing altitude after take-off. U.S. Admiral William J. Crowe also admitted to Ted Koppel on Nightline that the Vincennes was inside Iranian territorial waters when it launched the missiles.
On 21 March 1986, the United Nations Security Council made a declaration stating that "members are profoundly concerned by the use of chemical weapons on Iranian troops and the members of the Council strongly condemned use of chemical weapons as a clear violation of the Geneva Protocol of 1925 which prohibits the use in war of chemical weapons." The United States under Reagan-Bush was the only member who voted against the issuance of this declaration.
Six months before G.W. Bush left office he signed a secret finding authorizing a covert offensive against the Iranian regime that, according to those familiar with its contents is, "unprecedented in its scope." This means what appears to be a transparent attempt to find and weed out terrorists in several Middle East countries in reality is a stepped up attempt to get additional US-Israeli-Arab efforts to create an improved Yellowcake Recipe for the invasion of Iran.
I cannot go without commenting on our honest and fair MSM. When Mike Wallace and 60 minutes sliced and diced the interview with President Ahmadinejad , we had to stomach an Emmy for this hack job.
Take a step back and think about being an Iranian citizen and reading the history I have mentioned, presented by Iranian government slant and imagine how you would see the United States, Israel and the Western Capitalists Ideology. For what has been a systematic, premeditated, sinister, illegal, unethical and deplorable chronology, we as Americans must be furious over it and if we continue to allow the highest powers of the land to talk to us about transparency while accepting this as government, then we have allowed ourselves to become willing participants in the same kind of terrorism they want us to believe we were victims of on 9/11/2001.
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