It's John Bolton and Mike Bompeo who are itching for war. Donald Trum? Not so
much. But he wants glory and loves militarism, and he can be led down the
garden path. Racism? Ending abortion? He doesn't particularly care but he knows
that his base does, and he wants to be a dictator for life!
Miriam
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2019 11:08 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Washington sends carrier fleet to Mideast,
threatens Iran
These are scary times. Donald Trump is itching for War, despite his
protestations.
While politicians are strutting and posturing and pointing to such vital issues
as the need for laws to "protect" our woman folk from dastardly abortion
practitioners, the Trumpsters are steering our Ship of State closer to the
jagged rocks of War. War will do far more to thin our population than will all
the abortions performed across the nation.
One good result of an all out war, those young men who were judged to be too
defective to don a uniform, will find far less competition in the Dating and
Mating game. And hey! these boys left behind are able to reproduce just as
well as if they were "normal". And don't worry about those new little fetuses
being saved from those nasty abortionists, In 18 years or so they will have
grown up to become our latest crop of cannon fodder.
Yes Sir! Keep them girls in their place...and on their backs.
Produce, produce, produce. It's what made America great!
Carl Jarvis
On 5/19/19, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
https://themilitant.com/2019/05/18/washington-sends-carrier-fleet-to-m
ideast-threatens-iran/
Washington sends carrier fleet to Mideast, threatens Iran
By Seth Galinsky
Vol. 83/No. 21
May 27, 2019
Millions of workers in the U.S. know from bitter experience what it
means when the capitalist rulers discuss dispatching more cannon
fodder to the Middle East.
News accounts report a meeting of White House national security
personnel May 9 discussed “updating” a plan to send tens of thousands
more troops to the Persian Gulf to counter any hostile moves by Tehran.
Washington is ratcheting up its economic sanctions on Iran even
tighter, in what the State Department calls an “unprecedented maximum
pressure campaign.”
“Washington’s new sanctions and threats against Iran only make
things worse for working people there and in the region. The U.S.
rulers only aim is defending their imperialist interests in the Middle
East,” Joel Britton, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of
San Francisco, said May 13. “Working people in the U.S. and around the
world should be on their guard, and demand U.S. hands off Iran! End the
sanctions!”
The U.S. rulers’ goal is to force Tehran to accept greater
restrictions on its nuclear program and to reign in Iranian “proxy”
forces in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and the Gaza Strip.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said May 11 the U.S. economic
sanctions are “unprecedented in the history of our Islamic
Revolution,” and are causing deep economic problems.
It’s working people who are forced to bear the burden. Prices for
basic necessities have risen as much as 60 percent over the last year,
despite government subsidies for food and electricity.
Washington has been increasing the pressure for a year, since
President Donald Trump withdrew from the 2015 U.S.-Iran nuclear
agreement signed by Barack Obama, saying it didn’t go far enough.
In November last year, Washington reimposed sanctions on oil imports
from Iran but granted eight governments temporary waivers. In April,
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the waivers would not be
renewed. They expired May 2.
On May 3 Washington set new limits on Iran’s nuclear activities,
imposing sanctions on Iranian export of heavy water and surplus
enriched uranium. Less than a week later it imposed sanctions on
Iran’s metal exports.
And on May 5 the White House announced the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier
Strike Group was heading to the Arab-Persian Gulf “to send a clear and
unmistakable message to the Iranian Regime.” Administration officials
claimed it was in response to unspecified threats by Iranian forces.
The deployment was part of the regular rotation of U.S. naval forces,
but Washington exploited it to threaten Tehran.
Washington continues to squeeze
“Any attack on U.S. interests will be met with unrelenting force,” Gen.
Frank McKenzie, commander of the U.S. Central Command, said May 8. He
added, “Make no mistake, we are not seeking a fight with the Iranian
regime.”
On May 7, Pompeo called off a planned trip to Germany and went to Iraq.
He spent four hours meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Adel
Abdul-Mahdi, Iraqi President Barham Salih and other officials, as part of the
U.S.
attempt to increase the pressure on Tehran.
He also went to Brussels for a meeting May 13 with officials of some
European countries and met May 14 with Russian President Vladimir
Putin in Sochi.
In early April Trump designated Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps as a
terrorist organization, the first time a government military force has
been placed on the list. The Revolutionary Guards are a key part of
the counterrevolutionary bourgeois clerical regime’s moves to extend
its influence in the region.
On May 12, Amirali Hajizadeh, head of the Revolutionary Guards air
division, responded provocatively, saying an aircraft carrier with
thousands of troops “was a serious threat for us in the past, but now
it is a target and the threats have switched to opportunities.”
But a spokesman for Major Gen. Hossein Salami, the head of the
Revolutionary Guards, played down the threat of military confrontation.
“The Americans have started a psychological war,” he said, “because
the comings and goings of their military is a normal matter.”
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