| Many disturbing words are written about | | | | monster to move, and who knows the history of |
| Ahmadinejad, Iran's leader. That he believes the | | | | Iran will know that Ahmadinejad NEEDS nuclear |
| next Imam is coming. That a child who was | | | | weapons to deter an American attack. The |
| thrown down a well will rise again. That he denies | | | | Americans are already at his border. They have |
| the holocaust. That he supports the cause of the | | | | already occupied his neighbour. Its client state |
| working class in Iran. That he wants his country | | | | Israel has nuclear weapons, and (despite their |
| to have nuclear power. But let's not be hasty | | | | failure with Hizbollah) a highly effective army. |
| about his beliefs. America has a leader who | | | | Virtually everyone in the state has military training. |
| believes that a man who was nailed to a tree two | | | | Iran only has the most precious commodity on |
| thousand years ago will save him from Hell. The | | | | earth, oil. You can't set fire to all that oil on the |
| UK has a leader who believes the American | | | | soil of Amerika. You need a bloody big bomb to |
| leader. And lets not beat around the bush. | | | | deter the narrow fascist state that is America. |
| Iran NEEDS nuclear weapons. It does not need | | | | What would your policy be if you had armies on |
| nuclear power. It has enough oil for itself and its | | | | your borders who have little problem in invading a |
| young 70million odd population. It needs nuclear | | | | country on any pretext? You would want that |
| weapons because it needs to defend itself. It | | | | invasion to be unwinnable. The same politics that |
| needs the threat that North Korea has - to be | | | | informed America and USSR mutually assured |
| "un-attack-able". The first rule of American military | | | | destruction in the cold war applies here. |
| politics now is that the state you attack has to | | | | Ahmadinejad, for all his failings, knows this. He |
| be undefendable. Iraq had nothing, nothing! And | | | | may be a nutcase. If we read and believed all the |
| American and UK planners knew this. This is why | | | | Western reporting then we would assume so. We |
| they did not say that al-Qaeda was in North | | | | would also assume the same about George Bush |
| Korea. North Korea has nuclear weapons. This is | | | | Jr. But the aspiration to nuclear weaponry (let's |
| why they did not say that al-Qaeda was in | | | | not pretend its for energy), is a sensible policy in |
| Pakistan. Pakistan has nuclear weapons (and they | | | | a world where America can support its clients |
| are compliant). They said that al-Qaeda was in | | | | with lethal weaponry for no regard to life nor limb, |
| Iraq. Al-Qaeda, in all its shapes and forms, has not | | | | nor age nor infirmity, nor right nor wrong (wrong |
| really been into a champagne-guzzling regime like | | | | place + wrong time = "soft target"). It can only |
| Saddam Hussein's. Iraq was defenceless. It had | | | | respect annihilation as the appropriate deterrent. |
| nothing. And the Amerikans knew it. | | | | Hence, Iran needs a big gun. |
| Iran knows too well that its democratically elected | | | | Ahmadinejad stands for his own country and |
| government can be overthrown by the CIA, | | | | people. And says it loud. And he understands that |
| American and Western interests. Indeed witness | | | | even if Iran had done nothing, and was the purest |
| the Shah. Iran's defence policy, for any rational | | | | of the pure states, they would still be liable to |
| person who understands Amerikan Real Politik, | | | | invasion if they upset American corporate |
| and who understands what causes that great | | | | interests. |