Bush and Sarkozy on Iran
There must be something about those lobster dinners that President Bush is serving to world leaders.
Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled all the way to the United States and the Bush family’s Summer “cottage” to enjoy a lobster dinner with Bush. Soon thereafter Putin announced that Russia was resuming long range bomber patrols to protect itself against a more dangerous world. Nice job over dinner, Mr Bush.
Now the new French President, Nicholas Sarkozy, president of France, came back from his vacation in New Hampshire, and his visit with George W. Bush, and made an absolutely stunning announcement. When it comes to Iran the world faces only two choices, he said, both of them involving bombs. Either Iran gives up its plans to build a nuclear bomb, or Iran itself gets bombed.
There must be something about those lobsters that seems to make visitors aggressive. Or is just spending a day or two with George W. enough to make world leaders want to put the bombers in the air?
Paul Craig Roberts, former undersecretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration, has this to say about the build up to war with Iran.
“The Bush regime says it is going to designate part of Iran’s military – the Revolutionary Guards – a terrorist organization, whose bases and facilities Bush intends to bomb along with Iran’s nuclear energy sites. Three U.S. aircraft carrier strike forces are deployed off Iran. B-2 Stealth bombers are being fitted to carry 30,000 pound ‘bunker-buster’ bombs to use against hardened sites. Politicized U.S. generals assert that Iran is providing arms and aid to the Iraqi resistance to the U.S. occupation. The media are feeding the U.S. population the same propaganda about nonexistent Iranian weapons of mass destruction that they fed us about nonexistent Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. A former CIA Middle East field officer, Robert Baer, has written in Time magazine that the Bush regime has decided to attack the Revolutionary Guards within the next six months. Remember the ‘cakewalk war’? Well, this time the neocons think that an attack on the Revolutionary Guards will free Iran from Islamic influence and cause Iranians to back the U.S. against their own government.
“Lies, unprovoked aggression, and delusional expectations – the same ingredients that produced the Iraq catastrophe – all over again. The entire Bush regime and both political parties are complicit, along with the media and U.S. allies.â€
The following video from The International Herald Tribune has a clip on the Sarkozy comments. Sorry, I don’t have coverage of the lobster dinner conversation between thee aggressive world “leaders” Bush and Sarkozy.
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