Re: Time to shut-down the UN
Arash
April 30, 2006
Time to shut-down the UN
By Mike Whitney
There’s no doubt that if the war in Iraq had been the “cakewalk” the neocons
expected, Marines would be unfurling “Old Glory” in downtown Tehran right now. Bush
has never wavered in his plan to topple the Islamic regime or to put Iran’s vast
petroleum reserves under American control.
In fact, the administration’s own policy papers, including the National Security
Strategy, NSS (http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss/2006) as well as the Project for the
New American Century, PNAC (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1665.htm)
assert that the United States has the right to claim these resources if it is in our
national interests.
Everyone knows Bush’s grand-plan for the Middle East, so why are the IAEA and
Security Council pretending that the administration is genuinely interested in Iran’s
fictitious nuclear weapons program?
Haven’t they seen this charade before?
It’s impossible that the main players don’t understand Bush’s real intentions or know
that the nuclear issue is simply a pretext for war. Bush has telegraphed his
belligerence at every opportunity even going so far as to announce to the Iranian
people that his hostility is not directed at them, but at their government.
Bush’s appeal to the Iranian people is absurd. He’s asking them to abandon any sense
of national loyalty so that he can violently replace the regime with an American
client.
It’s crazy.
Are the Iranians so simple-minded that they don’t know that the Shah’s son (Reza the
Jew-puppet) is still living in New York and has met regularly with leading figures in
the Bush administration?
Imagine a similar situation where Iran provided $75 million (as congress has) to
build political organizations within the U.S. with the stated goal of toppling the
government; such meddling is tantamount to an act of war and yet the American people
shrug it off as “business as usual”.
No one in the Middle East is blind to America’s machinations. The landscape is loaded
with clients, toadies, and venal monarchs all acting on Washington’s behalf.
If Bush was serious about fighting terrorism he’d focus his attention on Riyadh
(Saudi Arabia) not Tehran. And, if the IAEA was serious about nuclear proliferation,
they’d be challenging the Bush administration’s upcoming tests of “Divine Strake”;
the Pentagon’s attempt to create a new regime of low-yield, bunker-busting nuclear
weapons.
According to Defense Dept documents, "Divine Strake"
(http://www.nukestrat.com/us/stratcom/gs-divinestrake.htm) is intended to “develop a
planning tool to improve the warfighters confidence in selecting the smallest proper
nuclear yield necessary to destroy underground facilities while minimizing collateral
damage”.
That’s right; the Washington warlords are planning to use nuclear weapons in an
offensive attack.
So, why is ElBaradei dithering with Iran while this much graver threat is
materializing in front of the whole world?
Why is the Security Council wasting time with imaginary weapons programs when the
REAL danger is plain to see?
The international agencies have persisted with their clownish kowtowing to Washington
while the administration edges closer towards nuclear Armageddon.
The primary responsibility of the United Nations is to stop wars of aggression. The
institution maintained its moral legitimacy by opposing the illegal invasion of Iraq
but now it must finish that work by condemning the ongoing occupation and demanding
an immediate withdrawal.
By ignoring its obligations and devoting its energy to hectoring a peaceful nation
that has operated within the requirements of international law and it’s clearly
stated treaty rights, the UN has publicly disgraced itself and undermined its raison
d’etre.
Similarly, the IAEA has failed to seriously address the issues for which it was
formed. How can ElBaradei support a process that penalizes countries that follow the
rules when neighboring Israel has secretly stockpiled 200 nuclear warheads and is
threatening to attack Iran without any evidence of wrongdoing and without approval of
the international community?
This is madness.
And, why hasn’t ElBaradei condemned Bush’s “dirty bombs” in Iraq which have poisoned
the land and groundwater with toxic depleted uranium (DU) creating an enduring legacy
of thyroid cancer, birth defects and other malignant sarcoma?
Nuclear weapons are being used in Iraq. It is ElBaradei’s job to stop it.
President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez was right a few months ago when he said that the
United Nations had outlived its usefulness and was only serving the interests of the
powerful nations.
The “alleged” standoff with Iran proves that the UN has degenerated into a rubber
stamp for U.S. aggression. Its main purpose now is to provide international cover for
American plans to redraw the map of the Middle East and integrate dissident states
into the neoliberal economic system.
When the bombing begins in Iran, the UN can finally board-up its doors and send the
diplomats home; there’ll be no more reason to maintain the pretense. An attack on
Iranian facilities will signal a period of global realignment where states either
submit to the Washington axis or join the growing resistance.
We are quickly moving towards Bush’s dream of a world that is divided into “us
against them”.