Obama joined the leaders of Britain and France in accusing the Islamic republic of clandestinely building an underground plant to make nuclear fuel that could be used to build an atomic bomb. Iranian officials acknowledged the facility but insisted it had been reported to nuclear authorities as required.
Obama should try reading intelligence reports, like 2007's National Intelligence Estimate (the combined consensus report by all sixteen known U.S. intelligence agencies), which stated quite clearly that there is no concrete evidence of a weapons program in Iran. In July and August of this year, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed the lack of evidence although it refuses to state anything definitively. Yet still Obama, the D.C. political establishment, and the corporate media continue to lie to the contrary.
We've already been lied into one failed war, lied into ramping up another failed war, are so hurting for fresh soldiers that the Pentagon is now actively accepting white supremacists, yet still the establishment seeks to lie us into another conflict. And some people have wondered why my signature now has an image of Obama and Bush morphed into one unholy beast. Now you know.
David Krieger, president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, which works closely with the U.N. and IAEA, has produced a crystalline summary of the legacy of Reagan, the Bushes, Gingrich, Tom Delay and all the other clowns and psychos who transmogrified the party of Abraham Lincoln into a reactionary mob.
Mr. Krieger was primarily referring to the promotion of nuclear weapons by George W. Bush and Congressional Republicans for the last eight years, but the same formula also applies to their endorsement and support for every factor that harms the global environment and their opposition to anything that might preserve or restore it.
It was a death plan for humanity, and the rest of the planet along with us.
This defines the Republican Party since 1980, and it's up to the rest of us to make those words its epitaph.
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