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END THE BRUTAL, INHUMANE OCCUPATION OF GAZA AND THE WEST BANK
32 photos compare massive murderous Israeli damage in Gaza 2008-2009 to minor damage from Hamas rockets in Israel... 1300 Gazans killed, mostly civilians;
13 Israelis killed, 9 of them attacking soldiers (4 by friendly fire)

STOP WAR VS. IRAN
MAKE SURE OBAMA DOES NOT CONTINUE THE BUSH-NEOCON/ISRAEL LOBBY POLICIES AND PUSH AMERICA INTO A TRULY CATASTROPHIC WAR

January 2009

For decades the United States has wanted to control Arab and Muslim oil and make big profits for military and other well-connected contractors. Israel and its powerful American lobbies and leaders want to crush any potential challenge to Israel’s possession of stolen Palestinian lands. Tens of millions of American Christian Zionists support Israeli expansionism because they believe it will bring Armageddon and the return of Jesus.
All want to maintain a U.S.-Israel monopoly on nuclear weapons in the Middle East. There is ample evidence that to maintain this monopoly, the U.S. and Israel have discussed and even planned a dangerous war against Iran, and probably its ally Syria, that could kill millions of Muslims, Arabs, Israelis and even Americans. See maps.

U.S. President Barack Obama said during his inauguration speech that he wants to repair relationships with Muslims (and assumedly Arabs) world wide. The Israel Lobby and its many many representatives in Congress will keep pushing for a U.S. attack on Iran. Current U.S. military policy clearly demands that the U.S. use nuclear weapons against Iran, either to destroy deep buried nuclear targets or in retaliation against Iranian counter-attacks. Will Barack Obama really follow a policy of negotiaton and lean on Israel to give up much of its stolen lands to the rightful owners, Palestinians? Or will be he be one more U.S. president badgered into submission by the pro-Israel lobby - and follow a defacot Bush policy? Time will tell.

Former President Bush planned war on Iran for years and his allies remain in government and media and the neoconservative and Israel lobbies:
* His neocon advisors’ 1996 “Clean Break” and year 2000 “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” strategy papers outlined an aggressive U.S. foreign policy partially geared to helping Israel expand its control of Palestinian lands.

* Bush announced in his first state of the Union Address in January 2002 that Iran was part of the "Axis of Evil" and a potential target of U.S. pre-emptive action. In 2003 Bush invaded Iraq under false pretenses, a war obviously waged for oil, Israel and regional dominance. See mainstream, conservative, progressive articles on the often hushed up influence of Israel on promoting the Iraq war.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iraqwarandisrael
*   There are constant accusations and war-like threats and counter threats between the U.S.-Israel and Iran.
*    Israel fears that if Iran obtained nuclear weapons it could undercut the U.S. support for Israel's illegal occupation of lands confiscated from Palestinians since 1948.
*    The FBI has indicted American Israel Public Affair Committee employees for spying regarding Iran.
*    Iranian exiles, many involved in a cultish Islamic group on the U.S. terrorist list, are providing Bush and the neocons with questionable allegations that Iran fully intends to build nuclear weapons, just like the questionable and fraudulent claims from Iraqi exiles in 2002 - 2003.
*    In January of 2005 President George Bush effectively gave Israel the green light to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities if it rejected the results of negotiations to curb Iran’s nuclear power program. When asked if he would back an Israeli attack, Bush said: “...Israel is our ally, and in that we've made a very strong commitment to support Israel, we will support Israel if her security is threatened." Note that the United States has NO formal treaty with Israel and most Americans oppose such an attack.
* The U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) has contingency plans to attack 450 plus Iranian targets, some hard targets with nuclear weapons. New strategies allow use of nuclear weapons against chemical weapons, troop superiority, in retaliation against suspected terrorist attacks, or to ensure battlefield victory.
* In August 2005 the State Department accused Iran of chemical weapons violations and Bush again made it clear “all options are on the table” - including military attack – to shut down Iran’s nuclear power program.
*    Bush appointed John Bolton to the United Nations to bully the UN into approving war on Iran--or to denounce it as irrelevant if it does not.
* The US set up "negotiations" to fail by making unfair demands under threat of attack which Iran has rejected.
* U.S. ships keep rotating through the Persian Gulf, the US military keeps claiming that Iran is behind attacks on Americans in Iraq, and now Britain is moving troops closer to the border.
See somewhat dated overview of pro-war policies and anti-war views

A war against Iran could be catastrophic:
See IRAN WAR SCENARIOS
*    If the U.S. does NOT use nuclear weapons in a first strike to take out nuclear facilities, it will do so in a retaliatory strike.
* Iran is only a few hundred miles from Russia. Will Russian military leaders panic at electro-magnetic pulse effects and radiation blowing their way?
*    Iranian officials have made credible threats to retaliate with accurate, long range, high explosive missiles against Israel’s nuclear plant and cities, U.S. bases and troops in Iraq and U.S. ships at sea. They could deploy millions of troops and enter Iraq.
*    Iran could cut off much of the world’s oil which comes through the Straight of Hormuz. Feared or actual Iranian attacks on oil facilities and any ongoing battles would drive the price of oil sky-high, devastating the world economy.
*    Russia and China could retaliate by dumping the U.S. dollar for trade purposes, forcing up interest rates and prices of imported and even domestic goods; if the housing bubble burst most Americans would be impoverished.
* Russia and China have made new nuclear, trade and political alliances with Iran which ups the ante of any conflict, even if it does not go nuclear in the first few days.
* Outraged Pakistani radicals could take over its nuclear weapons and bomb Israel, unleashing Israel’s infamous “Samson Option” (as described in Seymour Hersh's book of the same name) of nuclear attacks against Arab and even European and Russian cities. When Israel nukes Moscow, Moscow nukes America. Israel's nuclear blackmail of America must be stopped.

Escalation to world nuclear war is possible, a war Americans never imagined, supported or voted for.

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