Thanks for the text of the letter sent by the Iranian delegation to the UN. Bob Gates’s vicious threat is set out very clearly indeed.

I like to remember Gates’s career at CIA in the 1980s, when he did all he could to exaggerate many times over, the “threat” posed by the Soviet Union. Gates was the armaments manufacturers’ best friend. And he still is.

I heartily agree with you that Ahamdinejad’s sincerity is to be preferred over the shameless lying and cheating of George W. Bush! That bullying moron destroyed the lives of millions of people in the Middle East. And the question before us is: Is Obama in effect yet another stooge of the warmongers, manipulated by Aipac and other “supporters” of Israel – - meaning, promoters of permanent oppression of the Palestinians and suppression of their legitimate national aspirations?

Great post! By all means, run a shuttle between Washington (DC) and Tel Aviv! Keep it packed with Senators, Congressmen, generals, admirals, and on down the line! How many retired generals and admirals were paid to deceive the American public, in the run-up to the idiotic invasion of Iraq? There were many stooges of the warmongers on the payroll.

The American psychological warfare, however, is not limited to mainstream media outlets, NY Times and Fox News-like stuff, campaign websites and TV shows. A number of bloggers also have been mobilized to take part in the cyber maneuver against Iran. It means that the wave of American psychological operation against Iran has become so extensive and far-reaching that even involves bloggers and independent commentators who run e-zines and online publications.

Dear President Obama; we know that whoever rises to presidency in your country should be first an expert of psychological warfare and a dexterous pamphleteer; you’ve done your job successfully by teaching us that you have the potentiality to be a duplicate of Mr. George W. Bush. Now you’ve satisfied your Zionist supervisors excellently. The only thing which you should know is that you had better take the options off the table and save more space consequently!”

I would like to end this post with a quote from one of America’s most fearless writers, John Kaminski, for the benefit of Barack Obama: “I wish we had a president as decent as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the current and outspoken president of Iran. I mean, just compare the two men as human beings. Mr. Ahmadinejad seems like a decent guy from the neighborhood, trying to tell the truth while being trampled by the demonic Jewish spin machine. And here is George W. Bush (interchangeable with Barack Obama, as have been all American presidents since U.S. Grant), revealing himself to the world as a lying, pathological killer. Hey, which one would you choose?”

http://www.rebelnews.org/opinion/war/210191-when-qbarackq-decides-to-head-a-barrack

” US Generals and Admirals Who Have Accepted Free Trips to Israel;
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Journalist Mark Danner discussing his latest book, “Stripping the Body Bare,” Nov 12 2009, 12, 2009, World Affairs Council of N. California Books, Inc..

“Mark Danner talks about his book of essays which covers such topics as the war on terror, the use of torture by the Bush administration, and U.S. involvement in the Balkans and Haiti. He spoke at the World Affairs Council in San Francisco.”

at 19 min to 26 min:

“…walling, the use of the towel – they later devised a leather collar with handles — the towel wrapped around the neck, smashing him against the wall repeatedly. This probably came from the Israelis who use this in their interrogations…”

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/290218-1&start=1180

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US Generals and Admirals Who Have Accepted Free Trips to Israel
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25228.htm

The fact here is that unlike Iran, Israel has already developed illegal nuclear weapons and refused to sign the NPT. Added to the catastrophic mess it has created in Gaza, Israel is ranking as the number one threat to world peace and security.

Does the word “hypocrisy” mean anything to the president?

Thanks. I recommend James Mather’s review of The Iraq Papers, in The Spectator March 27th. “[T"hey show how the genesis of the [Iraq War] lay as much in the realm of ideas as in calculations made behind closed doors. . . Together, they read like a parable of how political rhetoric conspires to make facts – - and wars.”
Also: “I”n the founding script of the neo-con worldview, international law was dismissed as a dangerous indulgence.”