The United States' Will To War

There was, first, the surprising electoral upset that brought the ascetic and efficient but not entirely prudent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the popular former Mayor of Teheran, to the presidency of Iran in the teeth of opposition from the whole of the so-called "reformist bloc" and the westernised middle class that had held power for eight years under Mohammad Khatami; even more formidable opposition of the pro-American, neoliberalist, corrupt and clerical tycoon, Hashemi Rafsanjani, who had been President for eight years earlier and had been tipped to win by every media pundit; and opposition even from sections of the clerical elite ensconced in the Guardians' Council, which oversees the functioning of government in Iran. Expecting Rafsanjani to win and then to do business with him, the U.S. and its Western allies were outraged when Iranians defied predictions and elected an underdog. Having declared Iran as one of the three countries that comprise an "Axis of Evil" even while the reformist Khatami was in power, the U.S. now declared - as this year's National Security Document puts it - that in today's world Iran poses the principal threat to the U.S. We have documented in much detail in the previous pieces how the preparations for invasion of Iran have been unfolding inexorably, on the non-issue of nuclear enrichment to which Iran has a right according to the very terms of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and despite the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) own finding that even with its best efforts Iran is still a decade away from production of a credible nuclear weapon, let alone a delivery system that could launch an attack on the U.S. 10,000 miles away. "Full article:link". http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/stories/20060602003012800.htm

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