Richard,
I know.
Miriam
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Miriam:
I try.
Richard
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On May 5, 2018, at 6:38 PM, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
reads them. I'm not posting as many as I did, just the ones that seem to be
When I post these articles, I have no idea who reads them or if anyone
articles that flash across my computer, all crying out the same "Doom and
Carl, I hope life becomes less stressful for you.
Miriam
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Another grim article. Frankly, I am needing to cut back on the piles of
My disposition was impacted by the deaths of three very close people, in aperiod of three weeks. At the same time my trusty Braille 'N'
Speak dumped all of my client, personal address', and assorted files,forcing me to spend much extra time in rebuilding as much as I am able.
They called 911 and spent several hours at emergency, while tests werebeing conducted. They returned just about 12:30 A.M. with mother in tow.
Hopefully that sums it all up for the moment. But my point is that I willnot be too active on the list for a bit of time.
has already been made."
Carl Jarvis
(but I'll still be lurking!)
On 5/4/18, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The Coming US War Against Iran
By John Kiriakou, Reader Supported News
04 May 18
I
spent nearly 15 years in the CIA. I like to think that I learned
something there. I learned how the federal bureaucracy works. I
learned that cowboys in government - in the CIA and elsewhere around
government - can have incredible power over the creation of policy. I
learned that the CIA will push the envelope of legality until
somebody in a position of authority pushes back. I learned that the
CIA can wage war without any thought whatsoever as to how things will
work out in the end. There's never an exit strategy.
I learned all of that firsthand in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.
In the spring of 2002, I was in Pakistan working against al-Qaeda. I
returned to CIA headquarters in May of that year and was told that
several months earlier a decision had been made at the White House to
invade Iraq. I was dumbfounded, and when told of the war plans could
only muster, "But we haven't caught bin Laden yet." "The decision has
already been made," my supervisor told me. He continued, "Next year,
in February, we're going to invade Iraq, overthrow Saddam Hussein,
and open the world's largest air force base in southern Iraq." He
went on, "We're going to go to the United Nations and pretend that we
want a Security Council Resolution. But the truth is that the decision
States.
Soon after, Secretary of State Colin Powell began traveling around
Europe and the Middle East to cultivate support for the invasion.
Sure enough, he also went to the United Nations and argued that Iraq
had weapons of mass destruction, necessitating an invasion and
overthrow because that country posed an imminent threat to the United
things that they had been unable to acquire.
But the whole case was built on a lie. A decision was made and then
the "facts" were created around the decision to support it. I think
the same thing is happening now.
First, Donald Trump said repeatedly during the 2016 campaign that he
would pull out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA),
also known as the Iran sanctions deal. The JCPOA allows for
international inspectors to examine all of Iran's nuclear sites to
ensure that the country is not enriching uranium and is not building
a weapons program. In exchange, Western countries have lifted
sanctions on Iran, allowing them to buy spare parts, medicines, and other
law.Despite the protestations of conservatives in Congress and elsewhere,
the JCPOA works. Indeed, the inspection regime is exactly the same
one that the United Nations imposed on Iraq in the last two decades.
Trump has kept up his anti-Iran rhetoric since becoming president.
More importantly, he has appointed Iran hawks to the two most
important positions in foreign policy: former CIA Director Mike
Pompeo as Secretary of State and former US ambassador to the UN John
Bolton as National Security Advisor.
The
two have made clear that their preferred policy toward Iran is
"regime change," a policy that is actually prohibited by international
provocation.
Perhaps the most troubling development, however, is the apparent de
facto alliance against Iran by Israel, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab
Emirates, and Bahrain. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's
recent "presentation"
on what he called a clandestine Iranian nuclear weapons program was
embarrassingly similar to Powell's heavily scripted speech before the
UN Security Council 15 years earlier telling the world that Iraq had
a program.
That, too, was a lie.
Saudi crown prince Muhammad bin Salman, the godfather of the Saudi
war in Yemen, which in turn is a proxy war against Iran, recently
made a grand tour of the United States and France talking about "the
Iranian threat" at every turn. The rhetoric coming out of the UAE and
Bahrain is at least as hostile as what has been spewed by the Saudis.
Meanwhile, there's silence on Capitol Hill. Just like there was in 2002.
I can tell you from firsthand experience that I've seen this before.
Our government is laying the groundwork for yet another war. Be on
the lookout for several things. First, Trump is going to begin
shouting about the "threat" from Iran. It will become a daily mantra.
He'll argue that Iran is actively hostile and poses an immediate
danger to the United States. Next Pompeo will head back to the Middle
East and Europe to garner support for a military action. Then US
Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley will scream in front of the UN
Security Council that the US has no choice but to protect itself and
its allies from Iran. The final shoe to drop - a clear indication of
war - will be if naval carrier battle groups are deployed to the
eastern Mediterranean, the Arabian Sea, or the Persian Gulf. Sure,
there's always one in the region anyway. But more than one is a
We have to be diligent in opposing this run into another war of
choice. We can't be tricked or taken by surprise. Not again.
John Kiriakou is a former CIA counterterrorism officer and a former
senior investigator with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. John
became the sixth whistleblower indicted by the Obama administration
under the Espionage Act - a law designed to punish spies. He served
23 months in prison as a result of his attempts to oppose the Bush
administration's torture program.
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