Salt Lake City, Utah -- Regrettably, the most immoral among us remember
the past, observe the criminal implications and repeat it. In 1939, six years
after the Madrid Conference, Hitler met with his military chiefs and delivered a
speech that today some are determined to
emulate:
"It was knowingly and lightheartedly
that Genghis Khan sent thousands of women and children to their deaths. History
sees in him only the founder of a state. The aim of war is not to reach definite
lines but to annihilate the enemy physically. It is by this means that we shall
obtain the living space that we need. Who today speaks of the massacre of the
Armenians?" [1]
In 1996, [Jew] Richard Perle, [Jew] Douglas Feith, and
[Jew] David Wurmser prepared a paper [2] for former Prime Minister Netanyahu
regarding Israel's grand strategy in the Middle East. This paper involved the
removal of Saddam from power. [3] Not without coincidence, the three men were
given high level positions in the Bush Administration. Perle became Pentagon’s
Chair of the Defense Policy Board (2001-2004), Douglas Feith who was forced to
resign from his post as Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy following
investigations into allegations of distorting prewar intelligence on Iraq; and
last but not least, Wurmser who became special assistant to the Undersecretary
of State for Arms Control (now advisor to Dick Cheney) whose wife Meyrav Wurmser
founded MEMRI [4], the very institution which translates everything that comes
out of Iran – and elsewhere in the Middle East.
On May 2, 2003, President
Bush landed on the flight deck of the USS Lincoln, above him a large sign that
read "Mission Accomplished" - Indeed this was the accomplishment of "A Clean
Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm", recommended by Perle, Feith, and
Wurmser. Three years later, Americans would see more than 3000 body-bags brought
home, the violent death of more than 655,000 Iraqis, and the execution of
Saddam. Those injured and maimed, those we starved and deprived with our
sanctions have been buried in stupor’s cemetery.
Our trance is
deliberate, for we are the executioners – the rope that hung Saddam and
massacred hundreds of thousands was our ignorance, fear, and complacency. We
never questioned the morality of the sanctions, nor their effectiveness. Not a
single tear was shed for the Iraqi children that died as a result of the
sanctions. The old and the sick were not our concern as long as they weakened
the tyrant, so we thought. But their skeletons were the pillars of his palaces,
our ignorance profound, our consciousness dormant, we ravaged and buried a whole
nation.
Congress was cowered into violating international law based on
lies. Only 6 congressional members read the NIE (national intelligent estimate)
on which a decision was made to go to war. Over 450 members elected to represent
the American people neglected their duty. Emboldened, the cabal of neo-cons
bribed and intimidated the United Nations to sanction Iran. After all, it was
next on the 'A clean Break' and on the wish list. On our part, abandoning
morality, salivating at the thought of taking more lives so as to empower the
malignant tumor of destruction and death, we clung to our weapons – And so I say
we are the Angels of Death who kill with our complacency, ignorance and
fear.
The three feed on each other; the fear on ignorance and complacency
on fear. When Khomeini with millions of followers made this claim about Zionism:
"this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time, just as the
Shah's regime in Iran had vanished", Israel provided Iran with weapons
considering it to be a lesser enemy than Iraq [but an enemy nonetheless].
[5]
And one must not forget the Iran Contra affair which took place
during the Reagan Administration when Iran was sold arms so that the Contras in
Nicaragua could be financed. Khomeini's remarks, his elevated status as an Imam
did not seem to be an 'existential threat' to Israel or the U.S., odd that a
president who is without power, should bring the wrath of the world. But then,
Iraq had not been defeated and reduced to rubbles yet – Iran's number had not
been called. Nor had the MEK [6] been called to serve its masters, Israel, to
provide false intelligence on Iran’s nuclear program. Nor had MEMRI been
established to misinterpret and misguide the public.
In 2002, the MEK
(aka NCR), 'exposed' Iran's undeclared nuclear activities. Of interest is the
fact that more recently, in 2005, the same group declared that the "production
of Beryllium and polonium-210 is being carried out" implicating Iran in nuclear
bomb-making. Fortunately, intensive and intrusive inspections by IAEA dismissed
the charges to the chagrin of Bolton.
[Side Note: Polonium-210 is what
was used to poison the Russian spy in London. He met with Leonid Nevzlin in
Tel-Aviv before meeting his demise. Nevzlin is under investigation for his death
[7]. What is not being investigated is the fact Russian plants are under IAEA
inspection while Israeli plants are not [8]; it is also noteworthy that this
misinformation about Iran is more in line with Israel's weapon of demonization
as well as well as that of assassination – Polonium-210].
Regardless of
lack of evidence, the U.S. persisted with its push for sanctions.
We are
in the hand of history makers, learning from the past, destroying the future.
Friends have been bought. Allies turned into enemies. China whose ambition is to
regain its lost suzerainty, and without a doubt the only power challenging the
United States, acted out of character for "China also believes sanctions are not
an effective way to resolve problems and China has been opposing economic
sanctions or pressures imposed on relevant countries, including on the Darfur
issue". [9]
In November 20, 2004, China stated that it "opposed" moves to
refer Iran to the United Nations Security Council over its nuclear program. [10]
The package from the U.S. would seem to include selling out Taiwan. It would
seem that when the President was talking about 'sacrifice', he was talking not
only about more American lives, but perhaps he had Taiwan in mind. After all,
history has shown that U.S. foreign policy has never been in favor of
democracies.
In 2005, Washington opposed Tel-Aviv’s sale of sensitive
military equipment to China. Specifically, the Harpy Killer unmanned drones as
Washington feared that the advanced U.S. defense technology contained in Israeli
equipment would be used against Taiwan. [11] It now seems that the destruction
of Iran is far more important than the ideals of democracy.
On December
3, 2007, the Israeli Prime Minister announced that he would be visiting China to
meet with President Hu in order to negotiate trade and Iran’s nuclear program.
[12] No doubt Israel will be passing high tech equipment to China in
appreciation of its cooperation.
Resolution 1737 is not meant to stop the
sensitive nuclear materials and technology; it was a first step towards
demanding further sanctions on the Iranian people. Under secretary of State,
Nicholas Burns stated: "We don't think this resolution is enough in itself. And
we're certainly not going to put all our eggs in a UN basket". [13]
After
harsher sanctions have been imposed, with or without consensus, the United
States plans to attack Iran and massacre millions of innocent Iranians. The U.S.
toll would depend on its method of warfare.
If there should be a future
left to those looking back at this decade, they will remember genocide at so
many fronts – But it is safe to venture and guess that they would find it
extraordinary that we were able to sit in our sitting rooms and without lifting
a finger, enabled the death of millions of people across the world.
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Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich has studied in Iran, the UK, France, Australia and the
U.S. She obtained her Bachelors Degree in International Relations from the
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and she is currently pursuing a
Masters Degree in Political Science at the University of Utah concentrating in
Middle East Studies. She has done extensive research on U.S. foreign policy
towards Iran and Iran's nuclear program.
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