Sanctioning Iran Is an Act of War
By Rep. Ron Paul | April 23, 2010
Before the US House of Representatives, April 22, 2010, Statement on Motion to Instruct Conferees on HR 2194, Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Divestment Act.
I rise in opposition to this motion to instruct House conferees on HR 2194, the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Divestment Act, and I rise in strong opposition again to the underlying bill and to its Senate version as well. I object to this entire push for war on Iran, however it is disguised. Listening to the debate on the Floor on this motion and the underlying bill it feels as if we are back in 2002 all over again: the same falsehoods and distortions used to push the United States into a disastrous and unnecessary one-trillion-dollar war on Iraq are being trotted out again to lead us to what will likely be an even more disastrous and costly war on Iran. The parallels are astonishing.
We hear war advocates today on the Floor scare-mongering about reports that in one year Iran will have missiles that can hit the United States. Where have we heard this bombast before? Anyone remember the claims that Iraqi drones were going to fly over the United States and attack us? These “drones” ended up being pure propaganda – the UN chief weapons inspector concluded in 2004 that there was no evidence that Saddam Hussein had ever developed unpiloted drones for use on enemy targets. Of course by then the propagandists had gotten their war so the truth did not matter much.
We hear war advocates on the floor today arguing that we cannot afford to sit around and wait for Iran to detonate a nuclear weapon. Where have we heard this before? Anyone remember then-Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice’s oft-repeated quip about Iraq, that we cannot wait for the smoking gun to appear as a mushroom cloud?
We need to see all this for what it is: Propaganda to speed us to war against Iran for the benefit of special interests.
Let us remember a few important things. Iran, a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, has never been found in violation of that treaty. Iran is not capable of enriching uranium to the necessary level to manufacture nuclear weapons. According to the entire US Intelligence Community, Iran is not currently working on a nuclear weapons program. These are facts, and to point them out does not make one a supporter or fan of the Iranian regime. Those pushing war on Iran will ignore or distort these facts to serve their agenda, though, so it is important and necessary to point them out.
Some of my well-intentioned colleagues may be tempted to vote for sanctions on Iran because they view this as a way to avoid war on Iran. I will ask them whether the sanctions on Iraq satisfied those pushing for war at that time. Or whether the application of ever-stronger sanctions in fact helped war advocates make their case for war on Iraq: as each round of new sanctions failed to “work” – to change the regime – war became the only remaining regime-change option.
This legislation, whether the House or Senate version, will lead us to war on Iran. The sanctions in this bill, and the blockade of Iran necessary to fully enforce them, are in themselves acts of war according to international law. A vote for sanctions on Iran is a vote for war against Iran. I urge my colleagues in the strongest terms to turn back from this unnecessary and counterproductive march to war.
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Quote “well-intentioned colleagues” WTF?
I can only think of two– Ron Paul and Kunichie .
The rest are tools for the Ashkenazies.
Just imagine if Iraq never invaded Iran 8 years war–how strong Iran would be today. UK/USi seems always to instagate factions inbetween wars and come in for the kill. Hope this time–US}sreal chewwed to much and chokes.
Russia was suckered into invading Afghastin and so was Germany used for WWI WWII(weakening Europe and Russia) for the creation of Isreahole– USi came in for the final kill–worked to acquire today most of Europe–too FKN bad–it ain’t that easy with AFGHas/Iraq :^/
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Iran is no threat to the United States.
Israel has always been been the major problem of every nation!
A Historical Look At Israeli False Flag Operations
http://www.ziopedia.org/en/articles/zionism/a_historical_look_at_israeli_false_flag_operations/
AMERICA’S REAL TERRORISTS! AIPAC’S POWER BASE
http://www.etherzone.com/2004/lang090304.shtml
New Israeli spy probe has a 30-year history, insiders say
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_1576.shtml
Israel’s Nukes
http://www.serendipity.li/zionism/israels_nukes.htm
There are two terrorist states in the world which have nuclear weapons, the USA and Israel. Both are clear and present dangers to the entire planet. The greater threat is Israel, because Israel can destroy Western civilization and possibly make the entire planet uninhabitable. This is not because Israel can detonate thousands of nukes over the entire planet. Rather it is because Israel can nuke Russia. If that were to happen (perhaps as a result of an Israeli nuclear strike on Iran) then Russia would launch a nuclear attack against the United States (both the US and Russia remain on hair-trigger nuclear alert), and the US would retaliate in the same way. This is perhaps the main reason why the US gives Israel everything it wants and never criticizes it, except in the gentlest way possible. The only way out of this situation is either the destruction of Israel’s nuclear weapons capability or the destruction (or at least dismantling) of Israel itself.
Israel’s ‘Use’ Of Its Nuclear Weapons Against US
http://www.rense.com/general35/isrnuk.htm
Israel’s Nuclear Weapons
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/israel/nuke.htm
Based on plausible upper and lower bounds of the operating practices at the reactor, Israel could have thus produced enough plutonium for at least 100 nuclear weapons, but probably not significantly more than 200 weapons. (Edit: 400 – 500 nuclear weapons)
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RP is the only man in Wash DC with integrity and balls.
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The lies about Iran get more comical every day. I listened to some of the speeches on the house floor before the vote was taken. Dick Cheney would have been proud. Nothing but lie after lie after lie. Its just madness.
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Capital Hill is Israeli occupied land. Hopefully when US bombs Iran it will be financially destroyed. It shouldn’t take too many more straws to break this cow’s back. Good riddance to Zionazi’s in washingon/wallstreet.RIP in HELL.
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Well done, Ron Paul. It is the sanest comment I have heard out of Congress for six months and you deserve a heartfelt thanks for not subscribing to the AIPAC induced war-mongering on behalf of Israel.
I do hope that the AIPAC insidious graft machine will not affect your chances to be re-elected in the future as the US needs people like you, badly. For too long, the US has put up with the manipulation of your Congress, which, if it continues along with the media control, could make the US a puppet state of the most hated country in the world, Israel.
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Listen, Ron Paul has been part of this bullshit and the acquiescence for years, only recently during his own campaign for Prezdink, did he open his complicit yap about Israhell. The guy who SHOULD be running in 2012 is James Traficant, who got locked up for his constant, unwavering criticism of the A.I.P.A.C. zionist treason whore lobby in Washingtoon, District of Corruption.
And, this Ron Paul is another 9/11 truth denier, which means, either he has no balls, or he’s being such a weasel that he dare not look at Israel in the eye and say; “I know what you did on SEPT 11, 2001!!”, and hence, I have no respect for the ballessness of his.
Till he grows a pair, my vote goes to JAMES D. TRAFICANT, and or CYNTHIA MCKINNEY or RALPH NADER, not this pathetic acquiescing TURD who pretends to be a true defender of the U.S. Constitution. He talks a big game like this ziotard we have in the Whore House now, but he’s another liar and shill for letting Israel off the hook for what they did on Sept. 11, 2001., with NORAD help, of course!!
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What if , on a Planet in the worlds largest Universe, one (1) family owned 50% of everything on that planet? Would we not think that the inhabitants on the Planet ought to change that? In particular if that one family used all its possesions to establish factories that manufacture means to kill off all the rest of the inhabitants, like miltary-industrial complexes ,producing all kinds of poisons and distributing it in chem-trails,owning the means of information,making atomic-bombs that can kill millions of the inhabitants. In my wiev it would be rather idiotic no to get rid of that family, out there in the Universe. P.S:: where did you think we were?
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Re:(Edit: 400 – 500 nuclear weapons), likely right, but where are they ?
Israel is less than 1/3 the size of Tasmania, so if there is a spat b/n America and Israel because America wakes up to Israel having done 911, then simultaneous attempts at mutual pre emption with missiles passing each other mid Atlantic would decidedly make the white hot rubble bounce many times in Israel.
What has likely instead happened these last 35yrs is that Israel has, via diplomatic baggage, transported, say, 100 nukes into the cities of America for them to be sitting in the consulate basements.
Every president would know this terrible secret and so could explain his near total deference to any whim expressed by Israel.
There must be some way of `making an offer to Israel it can’t refuse`, to get it to take these things home again.
Does anyone here think that Israel has these nukes atop missiles or in fighter bombers, as means of delivery to US targets ?
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Fortunately for the world, the only way JizzraHell would ever have the ability to get one of their 300 NOOK YOO LUR warheads (I think that’s proper yiddish, isn’t it??) on top of a delivery vehicle large enough to strike the U.S., is to ‘buy’ the goddamned things. They don’t have the technical brainpower to create a credible strategic nuclear force, but they do have a CONgress and Senile-ate with virtually no qualms to sell them all sorts of Amer’kan weppenz O’ death from LowKeyMurder (LM) and Boink, and Nukethreat Gumball (NG).
So, unless they hire a bunch of hassidic jews to trot those fucking things into NYC on their backs as they bob like the little booze bird on the edge of a shot glass, they’ll have to rely on the fissionable material they have in their Embassy in NYC for the core of the device.
Remember, Boyz N Gurlz, the U.S.S.A. has a lot of dominionist pieces of shit that like the idea of JizzRaHELL being wiped off the map, by massive retaliation, because this is how they can justify the ARMAGEDDON they all want to have come to fruition. They ‘need’ a biblical prophecy from a non-existent cloud being to allow them to take us to a DEFCON level that MUTUALLY ASSURES WORLD DESTRUCTION.
that’s Jizzrael’s NOOK YOO LUR threat profile right now. But hey, they do have fighter jets to bomb, strafe, and torpedo our fleet forces with like they did in May, 1967 to the U.S.S. Liberty!! :)
and they have control of ALL OF THE NSA spying apparatus used to listen to all of our phone calls. :)
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