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Jun 24, 2006, 2:06:34 PM6/24/06

AntiWar
June 24, 2006

Changing 'Criminal' Regimes

Dr. James Gordon Prather
Nuclear weapons physicist
Former Nuclear bomb tester at Lawrence Livermore
Former Technical director of nuclear bomb testings at Sandia
Former Chief scientist of the U.S. Army
U.S. Navy veteran

The goal of our foreign policy – as advocated by activists across the political spectrum – has long been the substitution of sycophantic regimes for existing "criminal" regimes.

What makes a regime criminal?

Well, for some of the crazies, the regime is criminal if it commits or allows to be committed what they consider to be human and/or religious rights "abuse". For them there are dozens of regimes – including Iran, North Korea and China – that are "criminal".

For other crazies, a regime is criminal if it just thinks about acquiring nukes or the makings thereof and acquires ballistic missiles that can reach Israel.

Of course, there’s no problem in getting the Best-Congress-Money-Can-Buy (BCMCB) to do the bidding of the crazies – especially when they are in agreement – if it just means dropping tons of bombs on the hapless inhabitants of the country whose regime the crazies want to change.

But getting you soccer-moms to endorse the invasion of Iraq, or Iran or North Korea – thereby incurring significant loss of American life – to effect the regime change the crazies want is another matter.

So, even when Clinton attempted in 1998 to achieve regime change in Iraq by bombing Baghdad, Clinton told you soccer-moms he had to do it because the United Nations inspectors on the ground in Iraq were incompetent (or worse), having failed to find the missiles and "weapons of mass destruction" the CIA had told him Saddam had and intended to use against you soccer-moms.

Nevertheless, to give Clinton "cover", the BCMCB passed the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, calling for the removal of Saddam's regime:

"It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime". http://www.iraqwatch.org/government/US/Legislation/ILA.htm

So, it shouldn’t have come as much of a surprise, when, a few months after the terrorists had spectacularly destroyed the World Trade Center (WTC), Bush effectively blamed in his State of the Union address the regimes in Iraq and Iran and North Korea for that destruction.

"States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States". http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/01/20020129-11.html

Now, the only real "weapon of mass destruction" is a nuke. Nothing else comes close.

Furthermore, at the time, all "source and special nuclear materials" proscribed by the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, NPT (as well as all activities involving the chemical or physical transformation of such materials) in Iraq, Iran and North Korea were subject to the Safeguards regime of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

What’s Bush to do?

First, attempt to discredit – destroy, if necessary – the IAEA Safeguards regime.

Start by charging that the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) has somehow managed to acquire a nuke-oriented uranium-enrichment capability, in violation of the US-IAEA-DPRK Agreed Framework, completely unbeknownst to the IAEA on-the-ground inspectors.

Then get the BCMCB to pass the "Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq". http://www.c-span.org/resources/pdf/hjres114.pdf

Simultaneously, go before the United Nations, tell them you know that Saddam is attempting to acquire nukes, and if the Security Council won’t authorize you to invade Iraq and disarm Saddam, you and a "coalition of the willing" will do it anyway. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020912-1.html

Well, you know what Bush did to Iraq.

And can guess what he will likely soon do to Iran.

But what about North Korea?

After Bush unilaterally abrogated the US-IAEA-DPRK Agreed Framework (http://www.antiwar.com/prather/?articleid=3607), the DPRK withdrew from the NPT, recovered the weapons-grade Plutonium from the spent-fuel that had been "frozen" under the Agreed Framework and began producing more.

Now, the Koreans are "reportedly" in the final stages of fueling a long-range ballistic missile that "some" experts believe is capable of delivering a nuke warhead to parts of the United States.

William Perry, Secretary of Defense in the Clinton Administration, has urged Bush to "strike and destroy" the Taepodong ballistic missile before it can be launched. http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/e3adf03365cec9aa

Not to worry, says Vice-President Cheney. DPRK "missile capabilities are fairly rudimentary" and "their test flights in the past haven’t been notably successful". http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/22/cheney.access/index.html

Of course, if the Iranians got their hands on a few Taepodongs, that might elicit a different reaction from the Cheney Cabal.

* Physicist James Gordon Prather has served as a policy implementing official for national security-related technical matters in the Federal Energy Agency, the Energy Research and Development Administration, the Department of Energy, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Department of the Army. Dr. Prather also served as legislative assistant for national security affairs to U.S. Senator Henry Bellmon, R-Okla. --ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee and member of the Senate Energy Committee and Appropriations Committee. Dr. Prather had earlier worked as a nuclear weapons physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (http://www.llnl.gov) in California and Sandia National Laboratory (http://www.sandia.gov) in New Mexico. http://www.antiwar.com/prather

Interviews with nuclear weapons physicist Dr. James Gordon Prather:
September 17, 2005
http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/prather6.mp3
July 23, 2005
http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/prather5.mp3
May 7, 2005
http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/prather4.mp3
April 9, 2005
http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/prather3.mp3
February 5, 2005
http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/prather2.mp3
December 4, 2004
http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/prather.mp3

West has kept billions of Iran's EURODIF investments for 30 years In 1975, Iran took a very costly 10% financial participation in EURODIF uranium enrichment plant being built in France. Iran paid $1 billion towards the purchase of a 10% share of ownership in EURODIF and agreed to buy a quota from the new plant. But after the Iranian revolution in 1979, neither was Iran given any enriched uranium nor did it get back its investment from EURODIF. The U.S. was also paid to deliver new fuel and upgrade its power in accordance with a contract signed before the revolution. U.S. gave neither the fuel nor the billions of dollars it had received for it. Germany was paid for in full, billions of dollars for the two nuclear facilities in Busher, but after three decades, Germany has refused to export any equipments or refund the money.
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0540800f7314f7b0

Nuclear program of Iran
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran

IAEA and Iran
http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/Focus/IaeaIran/index.shtml

Setting the Record Straight about Iran's Nuclear Program
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/a19f89b941a33707

U.S. endorsed Iranian plans to build massive nuclear energy industry
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/9b0a04b1107d7171

Washington: The Biggest NPT Violator
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/e2233bcb812ca246

IAEA Chief Invalidates the NPT
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/3e2365eddc3bd0ff

Time to shut-down the UN
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/50134d0a62fb448f

Even threatening to use nuclear weapons is a violation of international law
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/5bd9a41bf89f3f1d

Iran's nuclear-energy rights

http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0d538a44ababd820

Nuke-Free Zone

http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/063968fda38b19be

More Condi diplomacy?

http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/8f9036be580f2151

Hijacked by the Neocrazies
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/030051c0a5a88c65

Iranian crisis resolved

http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/d23242f3f62d3746

Kudos to Congress From Israel

http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2edc97abd03b99e4

The best U.S. Congress money can buy
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/585faaf4d2e9eb74

Another 'Coalition of the Willing'?

http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f696f2a3a401850f

Judy-Baby vs TIME
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2080d3c61b904992

Iran was not ordered to Stop Enrichment
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f4731d785c554085

Western-Style Democracy – No!
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/466cae8cbc38307d

Media liars exposed
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/7f34f4e6346a9bb5

Dolts – or liars?
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/7eb4595173cae97d

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