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To: Jamey who wrote (23998)	12/29/2005 7:27:03 AM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 81087

James > My greatest fear is war. The big guys know that a war with each other will mean Armaggedon so we fight each other through small countries. IMO, this is dry tinder looking for a match. Here are two books which might change the way you look at things: lewrockwell.com >>I have never recommended a book as strongly as I am recommending Neoconned and Neoconned Again, two new collections of essays that make just about every argument you can think of against the war in Iraq. Now if you’re thinking that you’ve read enough about this subject already, or that such books just aren’t your cup of tea, or that you have too much to read as it is, I urge you to abandon such thoughts right away. These books need to be purchased by everyone, right away, this minute, and need to be circulated just as far as possible. To those who opposed the Iraq war, think of purchasing these books as casting a vote against the War Party, against the war-war choice of Bush/Kerry that we got in 2004, and against a cowardly, servile mainstream media whose mea culpas about pre-war intelligence came, well, rather too late. It may sound like an exaggeration to say that just about every major claim made about Iraq and Saddam by the U.S. government since the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait has been misleading or simply false, and that the mainstream media has bought into these distortions with nary a peep of opposition ....<< ... and IMO the situation concerning Iran is just as false and misleading.

To: Jamey who wrote (23998)	12/29/2005 9:55:13 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81087

James > I understand that Iran is very close to a nuclear weapon. All they need is processed uranium and I believe they may even have that under wraps. I have to say that's all warmongering Israeli and Zionist propaganda. If Iran wanted a bomb they could have bought one long ago from innumerable sources -- Pakistan, N.Korea, Ukraine come to mind. Their interest, unlike that of Israel, which sits on many "illegal" bombs, is not warfare but the peaceful use of nuclear power, in fact, like that of virtually all advanced countries. The argument that because Iran has a lot of oil they don't need nuclear is specious. It's like saying wheat farmers shouldn't eat barley or oats. news.yahoo.com >>TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Wednesday it would "seriously and enthusiastically" study a Russian proposal aimed at reducing international fears about its nuclear programme, the ISNA students news agency reported. The remarks by Javad Vaeedi, deputy head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, were the most positive yet by a senior Tehran official about Moscow's offer to form a joint venture with Iran to enrich uranium in Russia. The Russian proposal is backed by the United States and the European Union. It is aimed at easing international concerns that Tehran could make atomic bombs from highly enriched uranium, after having concealed a nuclear programme from U.N. inspectors for 18 years until 2003. Iran says it only wants to purify uranium to a lower grade suitable for use in power stations. The Russian proposal "will be reviewed seriously and enthusiastically," Vaeedi told ISNA.<<