Chasing Distractions

"This time, the 'grave threat to peace' will be the nuclear weapons program Bush charges the Iranians are pursuing, right under the sensors of IAEA inspectors to whom the Iranians voluntarily gave more than two years ago the kind of access Bush demanded of – and was granted by – the Iraqis back in 2002.

And Bush's 2006 speech about the Iranian 'nucular' threat will likely be replete with other statements that are – at best – misleading, and deliberately so.

In particular, 'America' may want the UN to be an 'effective organization' that helps keep the peace, but Bush and the Cheney Cabal certainly don't.

In fact, historians will no doubt marvel at their success – in the pursuit of Iraq's nonexistent nukes – in partially undermining international treaties (such as the Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons), international agencies (such as the IAEA), the UN Security Council, and the UN Charter itself.

Will Bush finish the UN demolition job by 'leading the world in confronting the [nonexistent] Iranian nuke threat'?

Stay tuned."

'Disarming' Tehran - by Gordon Prather