Introducing John Bolton, Israeli Diplomatic Corp...

[Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers@xxxxxxxxx>]

Juan Cole:
> "Ambassador Dan Gillerman, addressing a New York meeting of B'nai
> B'rith International, a Jewish humanitarian organization, heaped
> praise on U.S. Ambassador John Bolton, jokingly describing him at one
> point as 'a secret member of Israel's own team at the United Nations.'
> Noting that just five diplomats worked in the busy Israeli UN Mission,
> he told the group: "Today the secret is out. We really are not just
> five diplomats. We are at least six including John Bolton."
.
In full:

The Black Psy-Ops Campaign against Iran

The Iranian regime is despicable in its lack of respect for basic human
rights and in its regimentation of its citizens into a rigid theocracy.
But it is no more of a threat to the United States than Burma or the
Congo, both of which are just as oppressive. Iran has a very weak
military and just isn't a serious threat to any other country. Its
values are not US values. But if we are going to do things like send
Marines into Iran to force Iranian women to wear bikinis at the beach,
we are going to have a very busy century and Arlington Cemetery is going
to run out of room.

The warmongers are undeterred.

Taylor Marsh has more on the bogus story from the National Post that
Iran was about to make Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians wear
identifying badges.

Marsh says that Iranian journalist Amir Taheri says he is standing by
his column, which set off the furor, and that the law has been passed
and is awaiting implementation. The laws passed by the Iranian
parliament are available on the web and in Iranian newspapers, and
certainly a law like this would have been written about and published.
Could Mr. Taheri provide us please with a URL to the Persian text? If he
does not, we have no reason ever again to believe anything he says.

Taheri's standards of reasoning and evidence have recently been
slipping. In a recent article on Iraq, he gave as good news the
stability of the Iraqi dinar. But in fact the dinar is artificially
pegged to the dollar. Its "stability" is the same "stability" that the
Egyptian guinea used to have in the 1960s and 1970s when the government
just arbitrarily set its exchange rate. When you do that, you get some
apparent stability, but you also create a black market and a preference
in the country for other currencies. If the Iraqi dinar was allowed to
float, it would not be worth very much.

So we have now a non-existent Iranian law and a non-existent Iraqi
currency stability. Hmmm. How many more non-existents must we believe
before breakfast?

Well, here is another. Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Dan
Gillerman, is reported to have warned that 'Iran was "months rather than
years away" from acquiring the capability to make nuclear weapons. "Time
is running out. . ." '

Months?

I am typing while rolling around on the floor laughing uncontrollably at
this blatant falsehood and hypocrisy. The International Atomic Energy
Agency just a little over a week ago said it can find no evidence that
Iran even has a nuclear weapons program, as opposed to a civilian energy
research program. Supreme Jurisprudent Khamenei gave a fatwa in which he
forbade nuclear weapons, and the Iranian government denies that it is
seeking a bomb. The US National Intelligence Estimate says that if Iran
were trying hard to get a bomb and the international circumstances were
favorable to all the needed imports, it would still take ten years. And,
neither of those "ifs" is in evidence.

Moreover, it is Mr. Gillerman's government that introduced nuclear
weapons into the Middle East and that has actually threatened to use
them. The Likud government menaced Baghdad with the Bomb in the run-up
to the March 2003 War that they helped get up by supplying unreliable
intelligence to Washington. It was their way of warning Saddam against
trying to hit them with chemical warheads. But, would that have been a
proportionate response. Iran doesn't have a bomb, has signed the Nuclear
Non-proliferation Treaty, and hasn't invaded another country since the
19th century. Israel has hudnreds of bombs, had refused to sign the NPT,
and has threatened first use of nukes.

This is just demagoguery and lying.

Mr. Gillerman is, however, occasionally capable of telling the truth.
Reuters reports,



   "Ambassador Dan Gillerman, addressing a New York meeting of B'nai
B'rith International, a Jewish humanitarian organization, heaped praise
on U.S. Ambassador John Bolton, jokingly describing him at one point as
'a secret member of Israel's own team at the United Nations.' Noting
that just five diplomats worked in the busy Israeli UN Mission, he told
the group: "Today the secret is out. We really are not just five
diplomats. We are at least six including John Bolton."



Bolton was put at the UN by Bush to get up a war against Iran, though
for whom is not entirely clear. He is a notorious liar, who tried to
peddle a ridiculous story about a supposed Cuban biological weapons
program. He may well be the source of a flight of Judy Millerism that
the Iranians had sent evil biologists to Havana to help with a supposed
Cuban biological weapons program. Ooooooh. Those Marxist Ayatollah
molecular biologist evil scientists are the absolute worst!

Imaginary laws. Imaginary bombs. Imaginary germs. Lies, lies intended to
make a war.

If the Iranians were smart, they would dump that buffoon Ahmadinejad and
get themselves a less inflammatory president. Ahmadinejad's antics are
giving the warmongers in the West all kinds of pretexts to talk war on
Tehran. They should take a lesson to what has been done to the Iraqis.

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Posted by Juan to Informed Comment at 5/23/2006 06:06:00 AM