"In Iran, we see where the path of a violent and unaccountable ideology leads. Make no mistake: a nuclear-armed Iran is not a challenge that can be contained. It would threaten the elimination of Israel, the security of Gulf nations, and the stability of the global economy. It risks triggering a nuclear-arms race in the region, and the unraveling of the non-proliferation treaty. that is why the United States will do what we must to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon." [Eisenhower ordered CIA Kermit Roosevelt to overthrow Iranian democracy for having nationalized its oil; had CIA train the Shah's terrifying, torturing, secret police; Reagan supported and aided Saddam Hussein's eight year bloody invasion of Iran, and continues to support its destabilization funding terror organizations. (See recent Congressional debates about MEK.] [For years US presidents threaten Iran with nuclear attack, an no one in the world says 'boo.']
President Obama:
"the Iranian government props up a dictator in Damascus and supports terrorist groups abroad."
[US CIA leads armed attack on a government not compliant with US NATO hegemony.] [Who is dictating?]
"Time and again, it has failed to take the opportunity to demonstrate that its nuclear program is peaceful
and to meet its obligations to the United Nations."
[Iran is not in violation of the UN proliferation treaty it has signed (Israel, Pakistan, India, China did not sign on and do not receive to invasion threats from US and Israeli leaders,
and Obama et al have "failed to demonstrate the its [Iran's] nuclear program is not peaceful.
Rev. Dr. King:
"we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin...we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. "
President Obama:
"Through the G-20, we have partnered with emerging countries to keep the world on the path of recovery."
[The G-20, mostly white, represents invested capital and not the non-white world neo-colonized source of investor (owner) of profitable resources.]
[Obama, in photo-op, signed a $6 billion sale of WMD to India where millions of children starve to death each year.]
Martin Luther King Jr/:
"A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love".
President Obama:
"The American troops who have risked their lives and sacrificed their limbs for strangers half a world away."
[or risked their lives and sacrificed their limbs to mass murder people in poor defenseless nations, often as not, in their very own homes.]
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values. There is nothing except a tragic death wish to prevent us from reordering our priorities so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war. "
President Obama:
"The United States of America will always stand up for these aspirations, for our own people, and all across the world. That was our founding purpose. That is what our history shows." [History shows the homicidal slave trade; war on native Americans for their land; war to seize half of Mexico; savage war on Filipinos; on the Chinese during their Boxer Rebellion; the funding of, and participation in, WWI; invasions, occupations, supporting military coups throughout Latin America; heavy investment in Hitler and in Nazi rearmament; and a campaign of CIA terror when not bombing and occupation of small former colonially occupied countries throughout Asia, Middle East and Africa since WW II, always in the name of protecting American interests.]
Martin Luther King Jr.:
"This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing -- embracing and unconditional love for all mankind. When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am not speaking of that force which is just emotional bosh. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality. This Hindu-Muslim-Christian-Jewish-Buddhist belief about ultimate -- ultimate reality is beautifully summed up in the first epistle of Saint John: "Let us love one another, for love is God. And every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love." "If we love one another, God dwelleth in us and his love is perfected in us." Let us hope that this spirit will become the order of the day.
We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. [6]
9/11? Things might not have not gotten so far if King had lived to stop the Vietnam war, prevent the CIA covert attack on Afghanistan using fundamentalist terror, and had seen Bush prosecuted long before he was told by investors to give the order to invade Iraq - see King Condemned US Wars http://kingcondemneduswars.blogspot.com/ and Prosecute US Crimes Against Humanity Now click here
President Obama:
"More broadly, the events of the last two weeks speak to the need for all of us to address honestly the tensions between the West and an Arab World moving to democracy. " [Stop already. Not fooling many with that 'Western style democracy' blur anymore, least of all, these non-white delegates before you who know well the meaning of democracy as practiced by the Colonial Power nations. If you mean 'democracy' as practiced in the ancient city of Athens, I believe one needs to hear you say so - see Tony Cartalucci, Democracy is a Form of Oppression, Land Destroyer , 29/23/2012 http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/ ;
President Obama:
"Nor do we assume that the violence of the past weeks, or the hateful speech by some individuals, represents the views of the overwhelming majority of Muslims." [Really?
Meaning Muslims don't mind Americans killing of many of "em?]
"Burning an American flag will do nothing to educate a child." [That depends on how perceptive the child is.]
Footnotes:
[1]
https://http://www.google.com/search?q=cia+involvment+in+Syria&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
[2]
Syria: CIA, M16, French, Mossad, Saudi Involvement
Unreported In Imperialist Media http://www.countercurrents.org/janson270611.htm
[2]
Historical Context of Syria Savaged by US UK France Israel Turkey Arabia Qatar al Qaeda & Media for Whom?, Come Home America,
4/24/2012, click here
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It's Not "The Amateur Film" Stupid, By James Petras, excerpt:
Libya
The Obama regime led the aerial and maritime war that devastated Libya's economy, destroyed its national integrity and allowed a plethora of foreign and domestic terrorist fundamentalist groups to seize control over vast regions of the country[7]. Washington and the UE parachuted a motley group of client ex-pats into government -- without any supporting state institutions. The Islamic fundamentalists, the clans, the gangs, the tribalists, monarchists and dozens of other local warlords who the EU and Washington funded, armed and imported to overthrow Gadhafi did much more -- they destroyed the entire fabric of organized civil society, the state and public authority. In the face of a Hobbesian chaotic world of warring fiefdoms, many people turned to their primary groups -- family, clan, religious authorities, which could offer some minimum protection in the home, street and workplace. The assault on the US consulate was only one of thousands of violent assaults against property and national, regional and local authorities[8]. The very police, military and ministries are infiltrated by competing armed religious and secular factions seeking to secure scarce oil revenues for their particular group.
The Consulate protest and the assassination of the US Ambassador and Special Forces was merely the most publicized act of murderous violence spawned by the US and EU military intervention. They thought, either out of total ignorance, arrogance or naivetà © that they could arm the fundamentalists to do the dirty work of killing off Gadhafi and once their "mission was completed", they could be discarded like a used condom (or shipped off to Syria as shock troops) and could be replaced by neo-liberal technocrats who would run the country as a Western client state: turning the oil fields to EU and US oil companies. Instead Washington and the EU have alienated all sections of Libya society: the millions of beneficiaries of stable secure, secular and prosperous Gadhafi ruled Libya; the mass of armed Muslim fanatics who demand a fundamentalist state and feel their sacrifices have been pushed aside; the warlords and contrabandists of arms, who demand respect for their territorial acquisitions[9]. And above all the vast majority of all Libyans who have been impoverished by the war and who looked on with indifference or satisfaction as the armed gangs bombed the US Consulate. The violent protest over the amateur film denigrating the Prophet was clearly the pretext for a vast accumulation of popular and elite grievances which resulted from armed Western intervention.
For full article:
9/23/2012, Information Clearing House click here
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