But maybe nuclear non-proliferation isn't really the goal. Maybe the conquest of Iranian oil is the goal. And maybe the Iranians know that goal won't change, whoever is in the White House as of January 20, 2009.
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1 Transcript of Obama's speech at AIPAC, NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91150432
2 Robert Fisk: New actor on the same old stage, The Independent, Aug 2, 2008, http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-new-actor-on-the-same-old-stage-883270.html
3 Joe Conn, “The Christian Coalition: Born Again?” Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, Nov. 2002. http://www.au.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5492&abbr=cs_
4 “The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party: Dispensationalism.” Theocracy Watch, http://www.theocracywatch.org/christian_zionism_dispensationalism.htm
5 “The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party: Christian Zionism.” http://www.theocracywatch.org/ christian_zionism.htm
6 Baha Abushaqra, “The Heresy of Jewish Zionism”, http://www.bhol.co.il/forum/topic1.asp?topic_id=1315228
7 World War II, Encyclopedia, History.com, http://www.history.com/encyclopedia.do?articleId=226140
8 John F. Mahoney, “Israel's Anti-Civilian Weapons,”January - March 2001 The Link - Volume 34, Issue 1, as reprinted on Americans for Middle East Understanding, http://www.ameu.org/printer.asp?iid=46&aid=81
9 “...any agreement with the Palestinian people must preserve Israel's identity as a Jewish state, with secure, recognized and defensible borders. Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided.” Transcript of Obama's speech at AIPAC, NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91150432
10 Transcript of Obama's speech at AIPAC, NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91150432
11 “Affirming the principle that the benefits of peaceful applications of nuclear technology, including any technological by-products which may be derived by nuclear-weapon States from the development of nuclear explosive devices, should be available for peaceful purposes to all Parties to the Treaty, whether nuclear-weapon or non-nuclear-weapon States,”... Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) http://www.un.org/events/npt2005/npttreaty.html
12 Summary, Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions 1737 (2006), 1747 (2007) and 1803 (2008) in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Sept. 15, 2008, p. 6.
13 Summary, Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement, p. 6.
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