From: David Swanson via WarIsACrime.org <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Top 100 Reasons Not to Bomb Iran
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Top 100 Reasons Not to Bomb Iran
By David Swanson
http://davidswanson.org/top-100-reasons-not-to-bomb-iran/
1. There are over 80 million men, women, and children in Iran. Bombing
them would be mass-murder.
2. If the U.S. government and its allies bomb Libya and Iran when their
governments choose not to have nuclear weapons, you can forget about North
Korea and the rest of the world choosing not to have nuclear weapons.
3. The longer the world has nuclear weapons, and the more countries that
have them, the greater the likelihood of nuclear war.
4. We now know that even a small nuclear war can block out the sun, kill
crops, and starve everyone on earth who survives.
5. Bombing people makes those who survive and many who care about them
very angry, which is why the “war on terrorism” has predictably increased
terrorism.
6. Bombing people kills many, injures more, traumatizes even more, enrages
even more, creates huge numbers of refugees, and destabilizes the region bombed.
7. Bombing Iran will produce anti-U.S. and anti-Western and anti-Israeli
terrorism.
8. Bombing Iran risks direct war between the United States and nuclear
governments including Russia.
9. If you think people want to be bombed because of shortcomings and evil
deeds of their governments, you’re not actually thinking at all; you don’t want
to be bombed because of the shortcomings and evil deeds of your government.
10. If bombing nations made people better off and created human rights,
earth would be a paradise by now.
11. Bombing countries is illegal under the Kellogg-Briand Pact without
exceptions, and regardless of whether Congress “authorizes” it. Another country
bombing you would be a crime regardless of which parts of its government
“authorized” it.
12. Bombing countries is illegal under the United Nations Charter with two
narrow exceptions, and regardless of whether or not the U.S. Congress does or
does not do anything.
13. One of those exceptions is when the U.N. Security Council “authorizes”
a war. It has not done so in this case and certainly will not. And doing so
wouldn’t get you around the Kellogg-Briand Pact.
14. The other exception is “defense,” but if anything is not defense it is
the bombing of a far smaller country half-way around the world that has not
attacked or even threatened to attack your country.
15. Attempts to provoke Iran into attacking U.S. military forces near Iran
(or to disguise some U.S. forces as Iranian and have U.S. forces shoot at each
other, as Vice President Dick Cheney once proposed) does not result in an
Iranian attack on the actual United States or any legal ability to claim
“defense.”
16. Israel is not a U.S. state.
17. The Israeli government has been threatening, provoking, and lying about
Iran for decades, which are not defensive behaviors.
18. Saudi Arabia is not a U.S. state.
19. The Saudi government has been threatening, provoking, and lying about
Iran for decades, which are not defensive behaviors.
20. Iraq is not a U.S. state. It is the smoldering ruin of a previous war
launched on almost identical and wholly dishonest pretexts.
21. Not only waging war is a crime, but threatening war is a crime under
the United Nations Charter. The United States has been threatening war on Iran
for decades, and any attack would follow that string of criminal actions.
22. The idea that the government of Iraq or Israel or some other nation
could invite the U.S. government to wage war against Iran in and from its
territory does not exist in written law and would not legitimize yet another
war in the eyes of the world.
23. Gallup polling finds that in most countries out of 65 surveyed,
people’s top choice as the greatest threat to peace in the world is the United
States government. This needs to be countered, not exacerbated.
24. It is hard to find anyone in the United States, and even in the U.S.
government, who can even name every current U.S. war, much less every minor
military action the U.S. military is engaged in. This is a sign that something
has spiraled out of control.
25. Including recent U.S. wars on Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen,
Pakistan, Somalia, and Iraq, the United States military has, just since World
War II, killed or helped kill some 20 million people, overthrown at least 36
governments, interfered in at least 84 foreign elections, attempted to
assassinate over 50 foreign leaders, and dropped bombs on people in over 30
countries. In many cases, these actions have undone democracy. In none have
they created or “spread” it.
26. A nation possessing prohibited weapons is no legal, moral, or practical
justification for war. If every lie about Iraq in 2002-2003 had been true, it
would have been no justification for bombing Iraq. The United States did and
still does possess nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, and that doesn’t
justify anyone bombing the United States.
27. The very same people who told lies about Iraq are telling almost
identical lies about Iran. They’re counting on you to have no memory, no sense
of judgment, no ability to resist fear mongering and fluttering flags. They’re
counting on you to fall in line and obey like a drooling idiot.
28. In 2003, Iran proposed negotiations with the United States with
everything on the table, including its nuclear technology, and the United
States refused. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. government started angling for a
war.
29. War supporters said the United States urgently needed to attack Iran in
2004, 2007, 2015. It did not attack. The claims turned out to be lies. Even a
U.S. National Intelligence Estimate in 2007 pushed back and admitted that Iran
had no nuclear weapons program.
30. The United States gave Iran nuclear energy technology and encouraged
its use.
31. Iran was attacked with chemical weapons by Iraq, in part provided by
the United States, and refused to use similar weapons in response.
32. Iran’s Muslim leader has forbidden the use or possession of weapons of
mass destruction.
33. The CIA gave Iran slightly and obviously flawed plans to build a
nuclear bomb, as part of an effort to frame Iran, and the man who blew the
whistle on that to Congress, Jeffrey Sterling, was sent to prison as a reward.
34. The United States has imposed sanctions on Iran that have denied it
green energy technologies and caused significant human suffering.
35. It is one of the worst possible ways to blame victims when a government
imposes sanctions that create deprivation, blames the suffering country for
suffering, and justifies war as a result.
36. Sanctions were used as a step toward war in the case of Iraq, and many
in the U.S. government have been pushing for war on Iran since 1979.
37. These include lots of nasty old war mongers who do things like sing the
Beach Boys’ “Barbara Ann” changing the lyrics to “Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb
Iran.” If we let them bomb Iran they will never shut up.
38. The United States has been lying about Iran having a nuclear weapons
program for decades, as well documented by Gareth Porter and other journalists.
39. The 2015 Iran nuclear agreement was not necessitated by anything Iran
did. Iran agreed to tougher inspections than any other country on earth has
ever agreed to, and those inspections have established that the agreement was
not necessitated by anything Iran did.
40. The agreement was an alternative to war, which many in the U.S.
Congress and media were clamoring for and demanding urgently. The failure to
launch the war then or on any of the previous occasions when it was supposedly
urgently needed has resulted in nothing but further evidence that there is no
need for a war.
41. The White House has made clear that it wants to manufacture any
possible excuse to abandon the agreement.
42. Eventually, after numerous broken agreements, the nations native to
North America stopped making or believing in agreements with the U.S.
government. The nations of the world will do the same, if the United States
refuses to abide by its commitments.
43. Iran’s government is deeply flawed, but not in comparison with
governments the United States arms and funds and supports.
44. The U.S. government facilitates weapons sales from the United States to
73% of the world’s dictatorships, and gives military training to most of them.
45. There is no correlation between where wars happen and where human
rights are abused or democracy lacking or threats to world peace emanating.
46. There is no correlation between where wars happen and population
density or resource scarcity or religion or ideology.
47. There is a strong correlation between where wars happen and where
fossil fuels are produced.
48. There is a strong correlation between which nations launch wars and
which nations import fossil fuels.
49. There is a strong correlation between which nations launch wars and
which nations’ people accept war as a legitimate tool of public policy.
50. There is a strong correlation between where the United States launches
wars and where that small number of nations remains that have no U.S. military
bases and accept no economic dictates from the United States.
51. It’s good for the world, including the people of the United States, for
such places to continue to exist, for the U.S. government not to become a world
government by force of arms. Such an effort is doomed to failure and misery.
52. Look at a map. Iran is surrounded by U.S. wars and bases. Its
government has shown more restraint than recklessness in that context, perhaps,
than the U.S. government might show were the Canadian and Mexican borders (in
violation of laws of physics as well as of humans) lined with Iranian military
bases.
53. S. figures, including Senator John McCain, have spoken often over the
years of wanting to overthrow the government of Syria and subsequently the
government of Iran. The first step has been disastrous in human and in its own
terms. The larger criminal goal of overthrowing Iran will lead to more
disasters if it is not abandoned.
54. Following the failure to overthrow Assad despite so much effort, a war
on Iran would require extremely massive murder and destruction.
55. Think of all the crazy people who have ever held power in Washington,
D.C. Attacking Iran was too crazy for them.
56. On February 27, 2017, Donald Trump said, “Almost 17 years of fighting
in the Middle East . . . $6 trillion we’ve spent in the Middle East . . . and
we’re nowhere, actually if you think about it we’re less than nowhere, the
Middle East is far worse than it was 16, 17 years ago, there’s not even a
contest . . . we have a hornet’s nest . . . .”
57. Trump campaigned for office, like most candidates before him, claiming
to oppose overthrowing governments, and admitting what disasters are produced
by doing so.
58. Military families in swing states made the difference (as did thousands
of other factors in that close election) by turning against Hillary Clinton,
believing she would be more likely to engage in more wars.
59. In fact, polling has long found the U.S. public to favor a significant
reduction in military spending, greater use of diplomacy, and fewer wars.
60. Waging wars for democracy is not terribly democratic when the people
don’t want them and are not allowed any say in the matter.
61. When Korea announced plans for peace in April 2018, major U.S. weapons
companies’ stocks plummeted, and propaganda for a war on Iran surged.
62. Congress and President Trump in 2017 pushed military spending up to
well over 60% of the federal discretionary budget, stripping funding away from
human and environmental needs at home and abroad. That trend of many years
cannot be reversed unless the wars are stopped.
63. Converting to peaceful industries would involve so much savings that
anyone in need could be re-trained and assisted in the transition.
64. Bombing Iran would be an environmental catastrophe for the earth far
outstripping any green energy efforts you’re engaged in.
65. Maintaining the U.S. military in preparation for the possibility of
bombing Iran — a possibility that grows with every threat of peace breaking out
in Korea or between the United States and Russia — is an environmental
catastrophe for the earth far outstripping any green energy efforts you’re
engaged in.
66. A war on Iran would easily cost more than, and a small fraction of
annual U.S. military spending is more than, what it would cost to end
starvation on earth, or end the lack of clean drinking water on earth, or make
U.S. colleges free, or convert the United States to clean energy, or quintuple
actual non-weapons U.S. foreign aid, or build fast trains connecting all major
U.S. cities.
67. The way to alleviate refugee crises is to halt existing wars and put a
fraction of their cost into aiding refugees, not launch new wars that leave
many more people homeless.
68. A United States government responsible for providing clean drinking
water, schools, medicine, and solar panels to others would be more secure and
face far less hostility around the world, and it could become such a benefactor
for far less than it spends making itself hated.
69. With every war for freedom we can count on losing more of our actual
freedoms, and that would be all the more so with a war as crazy as an attack on
Iran.
70. An attack on Iran would also require intense propaganda fueling the
racist and Islamophobic bigotry already on the rise in the United States.
71. Results in the United States can be safely predicted to include: more
racist violence, even more militarized policing, restrictions of speech and
assembly, and a rise in fundamentalist religious hatred and gun sales.
72. Results in the United States can also be counted on to include: cuts to
all human and environmental needs, and a major pushback against all progressive
political initiatives in the name of war.
73. If the U.S. government bombs Iran, then that insane NRA video with
Charlie Daniels demanding a war on Iran — which you may have thought was merely
a ploy to sell guns to fantasy backyard warriors — will have gotten what it
said it wanted. That lunacy will be U.S. policy.
74. If the U.S. government bombs Iran, Netanyahu will openly tell the world
that the United States and its people are a bunch of easily manipulated chumps.
75. If the U.S. government bombs Iran, John Bolton will never be off your
television channel, and any station without him will have his moustache on.
76. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations claims that Iranian weapons
have been used in a war that the U.S., Saudi Arabia, and allies are illegally
and disastrously waging in Yemen, creating the single greatest human
catastrophe on earth, the worst famine seen in ages, and the worst outbreak of
cholera ever in the world. That’s not a justification to impose similar
suffering, or any suffering, on the people of Iran.
77. While Iranian militarism should be ended, Iran spends less than 1
percent what the United States does on militarism, and the comparison in terms
of foreign weapons sales is even more extreme.
78. It is hard to find a war anywhere on the planet without U.S. weapons in
it. In fact, a report that made news the same day as the ambassador’s claims
about Iranian weapons pointed to the long-known fact that many of the weapons
used by ISIS had once belonged to the United States, many of them having been
given by the U.S. to non-state fighters (aka terrorists) in Syria.
79. Alternatives to war include the rule of law. Iranians suspected of
crimes, like Americans and Saudis and anyone else suspected of crimes, should
be prosecuted or otherwise held accountable through processes of truth and
reconciliation. Committing more crimes does not reduce crime.
80. Prime Minister Netanyahu should be questioned about sharpshooters
murdering nonviolent demonstrators in Gaza, not listened to as he proclaims the
same baseless lies about Iran that he did 16 years earlier about Iraq.
81. The United States overthrew Iran’s democracy in 1953 and installed a
brutal dictator / weapons customer who lasted until 1979. Iran has never done
anything like that to the United States.
82. The United States shot down an Iranian civilian airliner, killing 290
people. Iran has never done anything like that to the United States.
83. The United States has labeled Iran an evil nation, attacked and
destroyed
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the other non-nuclear nation on the list of evil nations, designated part of
Iran’s military a terrorist organization
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, falsely accused Iran of crimes including the attacks of 9-11
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, murdered Iranian scientists
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, funded opposition
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groups in Iran (including some the U.S. also designates as terrorist), flown
drones
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over Iran, openly and illegally threatened
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to attack Iran, and built up military forces all around Iran’s borders, while
imposing cruel sanctions
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on the country. Iran has never done anything like any of these things to the
United States.
84. The United States now has a president who seeks the approval of people
who want to bring about the end of the world in the Middle East for religious
reasons, and who have praised President Trump’s announcement of moving the U.S.
embassy in Israel to Jerusalem for just those reasons.
85. The roots of a Washington push for a new war on Iran can be found in
the 1992 Defense Planning Guidance
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, the 1996 paper called A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm
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, the 2000 Rebuilding America’s Defenses
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, and in a 2001 Pentagon memo described by Wesley Clark
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as listing these nations for attack: Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Lebanon,
Syria, and Iran.
86. In 2010, Tony Blair included
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Iran on a similar list of countries that he said Dick Cheney had aimed to
overthrow. The line among the powerful in Washington in 2003 was that Iraq
would be a cakewalk but that real men go to Tehran
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. The arguments in these old forgotten memos were not what the war makers tell
the public, but much closer to what they tell each other. The concerns here are
those of dominating regions rich in resources, intimidating others, and
establishing bases from which to maintain control of puppet governments.
87. The reason why “real men go to Tehran” is that Iran is not the
impoverished disarmed nation that one might find in Afghanistan, Iraq, or
Libya. Iran is much bigger and much better armed. Whether the United States
launches a major assault on Iran or Israel does, Iran will retaliate
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against U.S. troops and probably Israel and possibly the United States itself
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as well. And the United States will without any doubt re-retaliate for that.
Iran cannot be unaware that the U.S. government’s pressure on the Israeli
government not to attack Iran consists of reassuring the Israelis that the
United States will attack when needed, and does not include even threatening to
stop funding Israel’s military or to stop vetoing measures of accountability
for Israeli crimes at the United Nations. President Obama’s ambassador
refrained from one veto on illegal settlements, while President-Elect Trump
lobbied foreign governments to block the resolution.
88. As in any country, no matter what its government, the people of Iran
are fundamentally good, decent, peaceful, just, and fundamentally like you and
me. I’ve met people from Iran. You may have met people from Iran. They’re not a
different species. They’re not evil. A “surgical strike” against a “facility”
in their country would cause a great many of them to die very painful and
horrible deaths.
89. The proponents of attacking Iran themselves admit
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that if Iran had nukes it would not use them. This is from the American
Enterprise Institute: “The biggest problem for the United States is not Iran
getting a nuclear weapon and testing it, it’s Iran getting a nuclear weapon and
not using it. Because the second that they have one and they don’t do anything
bad, all of the naysayers are going to come back and say, ‘See, we told you
Iran is a responsible power. We told you Iran wasn’t getting nuclear weapons in
order to use them immediately.’ … And they will eventually define Iran with
nuclear weapons as not a problem.” Is that clear? Iran using a nuclear weapon
would be bad. But what would be really bad would be Iran acquiring a nuclear
weapon and doing what every other nation with them has done since Nagasaki:
nothing. That would be really bad because it would damage an argument for war
and make war more difficult, thus allowing Iran to run its country as it,
rather than the United States, sees fit. Of course it might run it very badly
(although we’re hardly establishing a model for the world over here either),
but it would run it without U.S. approval, and cease to be an argument for
military spending increases, and that would be worse than nuclear destruction.
90. Ahmadinejad did not say “Israel should be wiped off the map.” A more
accurate translation was “the regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the
page of time.” The government of Israel, not the nation of Israel. Not even the
government of Israel, but the current regime. Hell, Americans say that about
their own regimes all the time, alternating every four to eight years depending
on political party. Iran has made clear it would approve of a two-state
solution if Palestinians approved of it.
91. Violent solutions are less likely to succeed than nonviolent ones,
especially violent solutions in search of a problem to justify them. The tools
of nonviolence are developing quickly and racking up successes. They are more
likely to achieve good ends, and those successes are almost always far longer
lasting. The United States government needs to catch up with the times.
92. The choices are not (a) bomb another country, or (b) do nothing. Other
choices include aid, diplomacy, the rule of law, disarmament. Every time people
try to urgently rush us into a bad choice, we can point out all the years in
which we could have been transforming the world with a whole variety of good
choices.
93. We could start making those choices now. But those who want peace have
to be as organized and determined as those who want war. We have to actively
demand diplomacy and sanctions relief and aid and cooperation and arms
embargoes and conversion.
94. There is no such thing as arriving at a war as a last resort. War is a
choice. A “hawk” is nothing other than someone who prefers to choose war.
95. There is everything to be gained by making peace with Iran,
governmentally, culturally, economically.
96. Persian history is at the roots of Western history and could be studied
as such.
97. Cultural and academic exchanges with a country that produces wonderful
art, films, books, food, and a soccer team that actually qualifies for the
world cup would be far preferable to yet more war.
98. A U.S. war on Iran, with or without a handful of partners or sidekicks,
would unite the people of Iran and much of the world against the United States.
It would justify in the eyes of much of the world an underground Iranian
program to develop nuclear weapons, a program that does not now exist.
99. The environmental damage would be tremendous, the precedent set
incredibly dangerous, all talk of cutting the U.S. military budget would be
buried in a wave of war frenzy, civil liberties and representative government
would be flushed down the Potomac, a nuclear arms race would spread to
additional countries, and any momentary sadistic glee would be outweighed by
accelerating home foreclosures, mounting student debt, and accumulating layers
of cultural stupidity.
100. The “news” broadcasters who called Trump “presidential” when he started
bombing people on a small scale would declare him something just short of king
for life if he bombed Iran.
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David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is
director of WorldBeyondWar.org
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and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org
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. Swanson's books
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include War Is A Lie
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. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org
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. He is a 2015, 2016, 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee. Longer bio and photos
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