Nuclear Fantasies and Double Standards

April 13th, 2006 at 21:48 Björn Hallberg

As Kurt Nimmo notes, the corporate media is swallowing everything they get fed in terms of Iran, hook line and sinker. It’s like a wall of total and utter nonsense that keeps spiralling out of control, fueled by ignorance, and the lackluster public support in Iran and the U.S. for respective government. The low water mark and the most unscrupulous claim in this game of disinformation has got to be the State Department pundit that claims Iran can produce fissionable material for a nuclear weapon in 16 days no less. Using 50.000 centrifuges. The trouble is, they only have 164. Iran said they might construct 3000 more next year and even that is a bold claim. And then there is still the issue of intent.

Needless to say, besides warping the fabric of reality and simple arithmetics, the assumption among the pro-U.S., pro-Israel rabble-rousers and warmongers is that Iran must be guilty. The angle of Iran’s intentions isn’t even up for debate anymore, nor is the rationale behind acquiring nuclear weapons (should that indeed be the case). It would seem everyone else can justify nuclear weapons as a deterrent and a defensive weapon. Even warring nations like Pakistan and India, or the butchers of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, everyone except Iran that is. Iran, by definition, is the only nation that apparently would use nuclear weapons offensively, or so the neocon cabal would like us to believe. Some double standards.
Also, no one is debating the issue of Israel’s illegal nuclear weapons program and their past aggressions and lax proliferation policy. Or indeed the two-faced stance of the recognized nuclear powers and their reluctance to cut their nuclear stockpiles.

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