Bomb Iran: Spread democracy!

[ken hanly <northsunm@xxxxxxxxx>]

Notice that this guy was former CSIS (canadian
security intellgence service) chief of strategic
planning and is also now a counsel for the CCD
(canadian coalition for democracies). This latter
group thinks that Israel is the cats pajamas and that
the US ought to be supported by Canada in every effort
against terrorism and in the Iraq war. I am
thunderstruck that this guy could have had an
important position in CSIS.
  He apparently has never heard of the US overthrow of
Mossadegh or of SAVAK under the US supported Shah etc.
etc. Of course much of what he says about Iran is true
but it is just so skewed as to be farcical. He sounds
as if he is almost frothing at the mouth just like the
raving theologues he describes.


The case for bombing Iran
June 5, 2007, 10:12 am





The U.S. and its allies face terrible consequences
from a military attack on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?s
nuclear facilities, but the alternative is worse

by David Harris*

When the United States strikes Iran ? as it will ? the
result will be a disaster, but a disaster that cannot
be avoided.

Today, Iran?s radical Islamist military, security and
intelligence machine reflects the extremism of its
history and entrenched masters. It has made Iran an
engine of global instability and menace. For Iran
today is on the verge of grasping the nuclear club,
even as it remains an ungovernable influence in the
international community.

Iran?s extremist and uncontrollable nature has been
well defined through action.


Start with reports of early post-revolutionary Iran.
Massacres of Baha?is and other minorities. Razor-blade
removal of lipsticked lips. Thumbtacks affixing veils
to reluctant women. Adolescent gays hanged from
construction cranes. Human waves of nine-year-olds
attacking Iraqi forces.

The performance abroad has been as shocking.

For years, Iranian dissidents around the world have
been hunted down and butchered by joint teams from
Iran?s foreign intelligence service and the country?s
other virulent creation, Hezbollah. By the late 1990s,
German prosecutors stated that the highest Iranian
officials authorized assassinations abroad through a
?Committee for Special Affairs.?

The Germans went on to prove that the Islamic Republic
murdered people in its notorious ?Mykonos? operation
in Berlin. South American investigators fix the
mullahs with responsibility for a mass-casualty
bombing in Argentina. And, of course, writer Salman
Rushdie lives under the multimillion-dollar bounty
offered by a quasi-governmental Iranian foundation.

Under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?s regime, Iran?s
religious supremacists call for the destruction of
Jews, Christians, Israel, the United States, the West.
No surprise, considering founder Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini?s helpful elaboration of the ?11 things which
are impure? ? everything from ?urine, excrement,? ?the
sweat of the excrement-eating camel,? to ?dogs, pigs,
(and) non-Muslim men and women.?



So hatreds like anti-Semitism blend comfortably with
the regime?s racist threats to capture ?a nice bunch
of blue-eyed blond-haired officers? and ?feed them to
our fighting cocks.? And this, before the recent
detention of British naval service personnel.

Unfortunately, such virulence is nothing compared to
the frightening nuclear implications of this regime?s
delusional and apocalyptic fixations. Mr. Ahmadinejad
is convinced a green halo hovered above his head while
he addressed the United Nations ? and that his words
paralysed all delegates for the duration of his
speech. He assures anyone who will listen that he is
Allah?s handyman.

In this spirit, Mr. Ahmadinejad writes letters to the
Twelfth Imam, who is said to have inhabited a well for
the past few centuries. The president believes he can
bring back the long-lost imam ? the Mahdi ? by
precipitating the apocalypse, something his doctrine
tells him will trigger a Second Coming, and paradise.
Mojtaba Samare Hashemi, Mr. Ahmadinejad?s eminence
grise and suitably fanatic former Islamic
Revolutionary Guards Corps intelligence agent, helps
his boss place fellow Mahdi-cultists in security,
defence and other powerful positions.

All of this means that an Iranian bomb would be under
control of nuclear triggermen who regards atomic
annihilation as an incentive, rather than a deterrent.
In short order, Canada and the rest of the world would
face the mullahs? diktat.

The alternative? Nuclear catastrophe through either
Shahab missiles, or warheads smuggled into our
countries by sympathetic terrorists. This is why the
United States and its allies have no choice but to act
militarily against Iranian nuclear facilities.

But the price will be steep and long lasting.

After the attack, Iran?s Hezbollah agents, its
foreign-intelligence sleepers ? known in Farsi as
?submarines? ? and suicide-corps infiltrators will
likely go into action throughout the West. President
Ahmadinejad has told us as much. The suicide corps
alone is so aggressive that a commander of Iran?s
regular armed forces has complained about its
uncontrollable nature ? if not about its ultimate aims
and purpose.

With or without a nuclear warhead, the atomic
program?s longstanding nature means Iranians must hold
vast stocks of radiological material. This is the
feedstock of dirty bombs whose contamination can bar
use of target zones for generations. As the clock
ticks down to the inevitable airstrikes, all countries
must have civil defence plans ready to do what they
can against the radiological threat ? and chemical and
biological ones, too.



Political leadership, security intelligence and our
armed forces must be aggressive in preparing our
defence. Pressure must be put on Germany, Russia and
other of Iran?s commercial, technological and military
suppliers to embargo the atomic ayatollahs. Russia?s
shameless exports of anti-defence missiles to the
mullahs, and similar behaviour by China, must draw
economic penalties.

At a time when Iran is installing sleeper agents and
combatants abroad, only those Iranians demonstrably
fleeing the regime can be allowed to enter Canada.

Above all, citizens of the west must be realistic.
Retribution inflicted upon us by Mr. Ahmadinejad and
other Islamic extremists ? including disruptive oil
prices ? must not cause us to buy enemy propagandists?
continuing attempts to divide us from the United
States and other allies. We must steadfastly recognize
that the cost of attacks on Iran is the price we must
pay to forestall the advent of a new form of slavery ?
and many millions of nuclear dead, besides.

David Harris is a lawyer, senior fellow for national
security at the Canadian Coalition for Democracies
(CCD) and former Canadian Security Intelligence
Service chief of strategic planning. He is counsel to
the CCD, which is intervening in the Air India
Inquiry.



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