US Documents on Iran Nukes Forged?
I'm shocked, shocked that allegations are emerging at the International Atomic Energy Agency that US-supplied "documents" from a laptop acquired in 2004 indicating a secret Iranian weapons program were probably forgeries.
The IAEA clearly hopes that the Obama administration will end the previous administration's attempts to undermine it and will stop the Washington habit of using forged documents as a basis for aggressive military responses to nuclear programs and instead will opt for diplomacy.
posted by Juan Cole @ 11/10/2008 02:17:00 PM
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Mr Gareth Porter had a similarly excellent article in The Nation of January 2008, the details of which are as follows:
Gareth Porter, Bush's Iran/Argentina Terror Frame-Up,
The Nation, January, 18, 2008
http://tinyurl.com/6onnof
The latest frame-up suddenly reminded me of the following piece by Harold Bloom:*
Reflections in the Evening Land:**
The celebrated critic Harold Bloom, despairing of contemporary America, turns to his bookshelves to understand the trajectory of his country
The Guardian, Saturday, December 17, 2005
http://tinyurl.com/6g37lu
I find the following the two most memorable parts of this piece:
"Without any particular competence in politics, I assert no special insight in regard to the American malaise. But I am a student of what I have learned to call the American Religion, which has little in common with European Christianity. There is now a parody of the American Jesus, a kind of Republican CEO who disapproves of taxes, and who has widened the needle's eye so that camels and the wealthy pass readily into the Kingdom of Heaven. We have also an American holy spirit, the comforter of our burgeoning poor, who don't bother to vote. The American trinity pragmatically is completed by an imperial warrior God, trampling with shock and awe."
"Shelley wore a ring, on which was inscribed the motto: "The good time will come". In September, the US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice was quoted as saying at Zion Church in Whistler, Alabama: "The Lord Jesus Christ is going to come on time if we just wait." "
This is the same Madam Secretary who is being quizzed by Congressman Robert Wexler in the following video (Foreign Affairs Hearing, February 13, 2008):
http://tinyurl.com/65hu9g
BF.
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* Harold Bloom, born 1930, is American literary critic and scholar. He is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University.
** The title of the article is inspired by D.H. Lawrence's poem (from early 1922) The Evening Land.
Louie,
I think Obama will be the start of a beautiful friendship.
"Laptop evidence" or "documents" seems to be a recent favorite of US Imperial planners, as we now have at least "discovered" laptops from the FARC, Venezuela, and Iran. Plus there were several forged "documents" related to "fixing the evidence" for Iraq regime change, and something related to Serbia/Kosovo, if I recall correctly. Of course, planting forged douments on some target and then "discovering" them is a very old tactic, and is no different from the routine planting of "evidence" as practiced by "law enforcement" agencies worldwide.
It will take a long time and lots of unbroken truth-telling for the US government to become trustworthy again, if ever.
Forged documents as a pretext for going to war? That's never happened before...
America making up "intelligence?"
NEVER NEVER NEVER ! ! ! !
Honestly, I might believe America was capable of doing that had all those weapons of mass destruction not been found in Iraq. But, the weapons of mass destruction were found and America was 10000% truthful. So, I am sure America would never lie about Iran.
Now, tell me more about the swamp land you are selling .....
Is this the laptop destroyed by the swiss, to keep the secrets out of the wrong hands, or a different one?
he, he... ya, those crazy kids in the white house!
As if the relevance of more than a million lives lost is of no import.
Where's the outrage, calling for justice and prosecution for war crimes? It's all backwards. Rather than expecting elected officials to be held to a higher standard, congressional co-conspirators work in the most bipartisan way, and refuse to prosecute criminalized politics.
Natural law is going to kick in somewhere along the line. Empires fall.
Obama believes this crap, though. He was constantly talking about the Iranian "nuclear program" during his presidential campaign and the debates with John McCain.
Why do I hear the sounds of Dec 7, 1941 abounding in this country again?
OMG! I'm in a fugue over this...
Could it be... The NOBLE lie is uncovered, and Leo Strauss rolls over in his grave?
FWIW, Iran is NOT the only Theatre of Operations strategically important enough to fabricate intelligence over.
Some are even in the Western Hemisphere... Like Colombia
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