I am so mad I could spit. I am so mad I have a few other
choice phrases but they are not suitable for a family news web site. A secret
society known as the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, an agency of
the United Nations, appears to be encouraging a military assault on Iran.
No other conclusion can be reached. Here I am so naà ¯ve as to think that the
U.N., and its attendant agencies, are all about promoting peace on this fragile
globe we live on. How could I be so stupid?
What do we know about this secret society called IAEA? Well, not much. Its
reports are cloaked in innuendo, diplomatic-speak, political-speak, and the
Corporate News (CN), when it even mentions the adventures of the IAEA, which is
not often, provides misleading information and war-hype with invented
fantasies. How is the intelligent observer supposed to wade through all this?
We know this; the possibility of Iran
making a nuclear weapon goes back years, perhaps beginning with Bush's infamous
Axis of Evil State of the Union Address in early 2002. The crisis heightened
slightly when some idiot neo-con stated, "Everyone wants to go to Baghdad.
Real men want to go to Tehran."
Since then the imagined crisis, because no agency could actually prove Iran
is making a nuke, began a slow death. The crisis suffered a cataclysmic failure
of its own evil existence in 2007 when a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) proclaimed,
with confidence, that Iran
stopped its nuclear weapons development in 2003. That assessment was reaffirmed
in late 2011.
Enter the IAEA's dubious report in November that alleged that Iran's
nuclear research may have military applications. The IAEA offered no
smoking gun and no proof of this allegation. Bam! Off we go on an invented
global crisis with war hawks in Israel,
Iran, and the U.S.
screaming their heads off for war and the CN encouraging them every step of the
way. It can be argued this secret society, the IAEA, started this impending and frightening war with global
implications.
As indicated by my previous articles on the issue we also know that the IAEA's
report in November was heavily influenced by Western and Israeli intelligence
agencies. We also know that its report was based on "new information"
on old intelligence which was the contents of a laptop computer discovered in
2005 and deemed unreliable by U.S.
intelligence at the time. The IAEA report notes that much of Iran's
progress occurred prior to the fall 2003 when it abandoned nuclear weapons
development. Exactly what the NIE reported in 2007 regarding Iran's
weapons program. This conclusion received little or no coverage in the CN and
has been virtually ignored by war hawks in the U.S.
and Israel.
So what could the IAEA do? They cannot portray themselves as a war mongering
group. After all, they are a part of the U.N. What they should have done is to
emphatically refute the political and media hype for war based on their
November report. After all, that report was virtually in agreement with 2007
NIE. It offered no proof that Iran
was making a nuke and stated nuclear weapons development ended in 2003. The
IAEA remained mute as the war drums began beating more and more loudly,
deafening the rational appeal for reason and logic.
Instead, with sympathies toward the West and Israel,
they embarked on a show of resistance to war which amounts to a sham as any
intelligent observer would note. This failure drew the ire of many who expected
better and want an end to this manufactured crisis that could shake our world
to the core if America
and Israel gets
really stupid.
In late January IAEA officials traveled to Iran
for a three-day visit to discuss the issue with Iranian leaders. Iranian
Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi expressed optimism regarding the talks.
Salehi also said the IAEA team could visit all nuclear sites during their
visit. The IAEA did not visit any nuclear sites and virtually nothing was
accomplished. The war drums began beating ever louder as war hawks, and
self-styled journalistic "experts," felt all this was further
justification for their beliefs while aided by the CN war hype.
As the crisis heightened the IAEA, in its infinite wisdom, decided to return to
Iran for two
days within a month. Two days? War appears to be imminent and they schedule a
two-day visit? This issue has been going on for years. What did they expect to
accomplish in two days? They have since returned with the expected result:
mission failure.
Again, they did not visit any nuclear sites. A weak explanation was offered. Ramin Mehmanparast said that the team was made
up of "experts", not inspectors. Explanations of the failure was
offered by IAEA. "Intensive efforts were made to reach agreement on a
document facilitating the clarification of unresolved issues in connection with
Iran's nuclear
program," a brief IAEA statement read. "Unfortunately, agreement was
not reached on this document."
Is the IAEA going out of its way to appear weak and indecisive? I can almost
hear the Iranian mullahs laughing their fool heads off.
There is another possible explanation. Perhaps the IAEA leadership feels it has
done its job for its Western and Israeli suitors with that nebulous November
report and no more is required. They went through the motions of seeming to
avoiding war. That is sufficient.
At this point there is only one man in the world who can head off the coming
crisis, the President of the United States.
Iran poses no
existential threat to Israel.
That becomes pure fact once an observer wades through all the contradictory
rhetoric. Many Israeli officials also consider this as gospel including its
Defense Minister and the current and former chiefs of the Mossad. Consequently,
an Israeli attack on Iran
would be a war of aggression. President Obama must immediately and
unequivocally inform Prime Minister Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders that if
Israel attacks Iran
without U.S.
approval the U.S.
will not be drawn into the war and come to the aid of Israel.
For more on this please read http://consortiumnews.com/2012/02/22/need-to-talk-sense-to-netanyahu/
It requires no courage for our President to launch wars of aggression
euphemistically called, "wars of choice." Just follow the cheerleaders, many of
whom are in Congress or running for the GOP nomination for President. It
requires a tremendous amount of courage to avoid wars of choice.
Essentially nothing has changed since the intelligence community's finding in
November 2007: "We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran
halted its nuclear weapons program."