Definitive, Passionate Anti-Iran War Statement!! Juan Cole (Graphic pics)

[IndyOp]

Who have YOU done today to prevent war in Iran?

5/30/06 Juan Cole: Hitchens the Hacker; And, Hitchens the Orientalist And, "We don't Want Your Stinking War!

DU Original Thread on this piece: Juan Cole - Must Read "We Don't Want Your Stinking War" I *really* like the graphics and think the entire statement is *very* important - so a couple of threads won't hurt.

Washington never gave the reform movement the slightest encouragement, perhaps in hopes that the Iranians would be forced to turn right again and form a proper object of US hatred. If so, they got their wish last summer, when Ahmadinejad used the same dirty techniques to get elected as had George W. Bush.

All the warmongers in Washington, including Hitchens, if he falls into that camp, should get this through their heads. Americans are not fighting any more wars in the Middle East against toothless third rate powers. So sit down and shut up.

One, two, three, four! We don't want your stinking war!

We are not going to see any more US troops come home in body bags at Dover for the sake of some Cheney affiliate grabbing the petroleum in Iran's Ahvaz fields.







We are not going to have another 15,000 wounded vets flood onto our streets with spine damage and brain damage.



We are not going to put Yazd behind barbed wire to liberate it, as a millenarian Christian general did to Habbaniyah in Iraq.



We are not going to imprison and torture thousands of Iranians at Evin Penitentiary in Tehran, as worthy successors to the bloodthirsty Shah and Khomeini.



We are not going to kill 200,000 Iranians with aerial bombardments of Tabriz, Isfahan, Qom, Kerman, Shiraz and Mashahd.





We are not going to let dozens of US corporations loot the American people and the Iranian people alike with no-bid "contracts", embezzlement, corruption, and graft.

We are not going to let you have a war against Iran.

So sit down and shut up, American Enterprise Institute, and Hudson Institute, and Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and American Heritage Institute, and this institute and that institute, and cable "news", and government "spokesmen", and all the pundit-ferrets you pay millions to make business for the American military-industrial complex and Big Oil.

We don't give a rat's ass what Ahmadinejad thinks about European history or what pissant speech the little shit gives.

I call on university students across America to begin holding antiwar rallies. The only way you can have a war on Iran is to draft the young people. It is you who are on the line. Demonstrate! Demonstrate against the very hint of war! Demonstrate in front of the warmongering "institutes" in Washington, DC! Demonstrate to end the one we've already got!

What have YOU done today to prevent war in Iran?

[Jacobin]

1. Wow. Great rant

For some reason, this is the picture that captures the invasion and tugs at my heartstrings more than any other picture of his godawful mess. I tear up whenever I see it.

[IndyOp]

2. Anything with kids does it for me...

Have you seen the 'Peace Takes Courage' video:

"Jesus Loves Me This I Know"

[Jacobin]

4. Here is a man, behind barbed wire, in his own country

With a hood over his head, sitting in the sand, with his young son in his lap. Trying to comfort his crying son as all parents have had to do, his little sneakers in the sand....a six year old boy sitting in the sun in the sand behind barbed wire crying.....It boggles my mind that my country has done these things to these people. It is a crime of enormous dimensions.

It is unforgivable.

[IndyOp]

3. Kick!

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[IndyOp]

5. Kick!

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[Cooley Hurd]

6. K&R for Professor Cole!

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