2008-11-11 Of course Barack Obama is going to attack Iran
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Natürlich wird Barack Obama den Iran Überfallen
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human translation by Robat, with editing by Woozle; machine translations: Google
Nobody who is of sound mind and body doubts that the US has their armed robbery of Iran completely planned through and the dates for it to get started have already been set.
However, things turned out differently from what you might have thought. The original plan was to launch a surprise attack from Georgia.
Unfortunately Michael Saakashvili, the president of Georgia, had his own proud plans. And thus he tried to take Abkhazia and South Ossetia on the go with his army, which was strengthened and supported by Israel, the Ukraine and the US.
While this fit nicely with US plans, it went wrong because the Russians were probably well informed from the beginning and then retaliated considerably.
They broke the back of Georgia's military and by doing so set boundaries for/to the US.
Naturally, after this, the usual propaganda machinery started its work, and the Western press of the system tried to blame Russia for Georgia's aggression.
The best example for the Western demagogy was an interview with Putin on German license-funded TV. (The ARD vigorously cut and excerpted out-of-context an hour-long interview of one of their correspondents with Putin into 15 or so minutes.)
This interview had been intentionally cut in a manner which made it possible to deduce from it that Russia was to blame. But the might of the Internet was stronger than the might of the demagogues, and these jokers were then forced to show the full interview, which did not stop them from mongering for the next war with others.
Above all things, they will launch any campaign for their darling Obama, or maybe rather for the money behind Obama. This cannot be changed, and those who get their information/news from people like Thomas Roth will most likely not know the sad truth.
If already these German journalists with the most financial security - because they cannot be fired - do their job like that, you can imagine what will come from the remainder of journalists.
But even the free media have their own problems with putting things into relation with each other. Daniel Neun of Radio Utopie wrote an emotional and moving article about the concentrating of the war fleet near Iran. Daniel Neun also wrote, that Knut Mellenthin on hintergrund.de has been dealing with the lies and demagoguery surrounding the X-mas bomb.
I however think, that these topics are not of key importance, which does naturally not render them unimportant either. The gunboat policy is supposed to impress Iran. But the really important weaponry has long lain ready in Kuwait, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.
The gunboat policy is just another *stab/sting/prick which is on the same level as the prohibiting of American banks to make transactions to or in Iran.
The Iranians, however, were smart – and had already withdrawn most of their deposits from the US and Europe. Their holdings in businesses all over the globe have been managed by trusts and funds from tax havens for quite a lomg time now.
But it is apparent that the US wants to steal this money, like they did with Iraq's wealth.
We will always be hearing of the Iranian bomb, and one day we will see it, without doubt. The US will prove to us that Iran has the bomb. In case of need, they will let one fly in and let it explode near a nuclear facility. Or even worse, they will claim that the nuclear bomb which just happened to explode in one of the world's capitals is of Iranian origin.
Until January 20th, the US will be politically paralyzed even though Bush aggressively tries to implement small measures which are – according to John Podesta, the boss of Obama's transition team – "probably not in the nation's interest".
Those measures are mainly about things such as putting up more limits to stem-cell research and the like. World politics are not happening anymore right now and Obama still has not the *threads in his hands.
It will still take a while after the transition of office until the members of the new administration will have found the coffee machines and the lines of command will be set up.
Similar to Helmut Kohl, who had all the hard drives in the chancellery wiped so that the succeeding administration would not have a chance, the Bush administration too will only leave scorched earth. That's the style of Neocons and Neoliberals.
It is however also no reason for big hopes. This time will pass, and there is already an announcement for an unknown menace to happen on January 21st / 22nd. Because this *oracle/divination comes from Colin Powell, who now apparently works for Obama, it is to be taken seriously.
Maybe they will throw the Iranian nuclear bomb on the game board. New York would be a good spot for that. Wall Street has already left, and we would be rid of the Bronx. But for the time being this is an *anchorless wild guess.
Tariq Ali, on the other hand, can offer significantly more tangible guesses in the Frankfurter Rundschau, even though there is no second source yet for confirmation:
Regarding foreign policy, the ideas of Obama and his running mate Biden hardly differ from those of their counterparts, Bush or McCain.
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Biden has already argued for erecting an Israeli-American protectorate in the North of Iraq; he wants to permanently station troops there.
And this is the spot where you should direct your eyes now. The war against Iran will no longer be prevented by peaceful means. German bloggers or journalists will have no chance to [withstand/keep up with] the reports of the press of the system. This train has left the station. But it is still possible to put obstacles in the way of the Obama administration.
Biden's announcement is reasonable for the US. He only wants that part of Iraq where you can produce oil for a very long time. It's basically just about Kurdistan and a little more. The Iraqis may have the other parts of Iraq back for their own - there is nothing left to steal there.
Those few drops of oil emerging from the ground over there are not worth the effort. Biden's statement is an indirect confirmation of peak oil in the South of Iraq and Iran because those oilfields have been exploited for a long time.
This means that he and Obama take no interest in the South of Iraq. They want the Kurdish North and a little more. Naturally the erected protectorates will be put together, and astonishingly they will form the nation of Kurdistan which later on will also make demands for its territories in Turkey.
Here the US will have an entire catalogue of possibilites. The US can keep up the credible threat of force against Turkey, but keep the Kurds on short leash, or the US can openly demand Turkey to hand over its Kurdish territories.
Turkey would be unable to resist and the US would get a *land-connection from Iran/Iraq to Georgia through the Kurish territories.
At first glance this seems rather bold, but the area around Mount Ararat and the Kurdish territories around it are in fact hard to control by Turkey and even that control is 'very limited'. Add some pressure by the US and Turkey would have to give it up.
Oh geez. The next sentence should be re-read by the original author... Something about invovling Georgia as well and thus creating a passageway/corridor to the Black Sea and Europe and then woosh-woosh pipeline to Europe. I think there was something regarding the pipeline idea similar with the Energekon conspiracy in Turkey. But back to translating now, skipping that sentence.
Playing the Kurdish card would also give the US the advantage to be able to act on behalf of Armenia under the flag of Red Kurdistan in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh; thus having an excuse to steal the oil of Azerbaijan, too.
In the end the US wants all the oil around the Caspian Sea. The US believes it can install puppet governments like in Georgia. A conflict with Turkey does not matter because Turkey has never been seen seriously as a partner in the first place. For the US, Turkey is Muslim and without oil, therefore worthless.
Naturally, some day there will be an inevitable war with Russia, and thus the Third World War. Given the fact that the US is bankrupt, and that it assumes that the war with Russia will not be nuclear and will be limited to Europe and the Middle East, war will remain the esteemed solution for all problems.
Of course this is madness. It is even pure madness. But we can be certain that our oh-so-progressive/advanced European governments will join in. They will accept war as the solution, just as they accepted the billions in aids for banks and the high finance, even though they know, that *these means of doing business are history.
In a situation like this, a few gunboats and fake bomb-reports from Iran are not the center of everything. We have to find ways and possibilities to at least prevent a world war. Germany's immediate exit from NATO would be a good idea. A democratic government in Germany an even better idea.
Germany will hold elections next year a nation uprising is possible anytime. Of course now it's a little too late for that and with media such as Springer, ARD and ZDF, and the Bertelsmann Empire, it is nearly impossible to spread the truth to a broader public. But we should at least try, so that later nobody will claim, that they did not know anything.
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“Nobody who is of sound mind and body doubts that the US has their armed robbery of Iran completely planned through and the dates for it to get started have already been set.”
