I have NOW gone from Terrified to PISSED! IRAN Bourse!

[serryjw]

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In 1976, President Gerald R. Ford signed a directive that granted Iran the opportunity to purchase U.S. built reprocessing equipment and facilities designed to extract plutonium from nuclear reactor fuel.( remember Chaney, Rummy & Wolfowitz?)

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According to Washington Post Staff Writer Dafna Linzer, “Ford’s team endorsed Iranian plans to build a massive nuclear energy industry, but also worked hard to complete a multibillion-dollar deal that would have given Tehran control of large quantities of plutonium and enriched uranium – the two pathways to a nuclear bomb. Either can be shaped into the core of a nuclear warhead, and obtaining one or the other is generally considered the most significant obstacle to would-be weopons builders.”<4>

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It is also worth noting that in 2000, the World Bank resumed making loans to Iran. As of June 30, 2004, the World Bank as made 51 loans valued at $2.6 billion to Iran. The World Bank gets its funds from the International Monetary Fund, which in turn, gets its money from member nation dues / contributions. The United States is required to contribute $37.2 billion per year into the IMF. The Federal Reserve Banking Cartel orchestrated this money scheme so that it can continue to print and loan astronomical numbers of debt notes. If the American people understood that the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Congress have been funding many activities of the Islamic Republic of Iran, most would be skeptical of the federal government’s current claim that Iran’s 30 year old, U.S. sanctioned, nuclear program is somehow now an immediate threat to the security of the United States. The IMF and the World Bank create just enough degrees of separation to shield the government from the people recognizing that the federal government has fed the dog well that it now claims will bite if we do not ‘put it down’ with a pre-emptive strike.

With Wolfowitz at the helm of the World Bank, one has to wonder if once again the Federal Reserve has positioned itself to fund both sides of a warring conflict. One thing is certain; loaning money to fund both sides of a war is a perfected craft of the member banks of the Federal Reserve, which is interested only in loan collateral and interest payments. Patriotism is not part of the equation.

if Iran defaults on its World Bank loans, the U.S. portions of the loans work their way back to the lender of last resort, which is the U.S. Congress. When the U.S. Congress responds to failed loans and failed banking institutions, they assume responsibility for the loan amount, and pass the burden of repayment onto the American people
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Read it if you have the stomach. The problems always is Afganistan, Iraq, Iran continues to be out foreign policy. So we let them rape the US Treasury and kill our kids in their march to one continueous war.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=HAA20060306&articleId=2067

[Clara T]

1. Let's Not Bicker Over

who killed who. This is supposed to be a joyous occasion. Now just take your soma and learn to love the endless wars of the military industrial media empire.

[lonestarnot]

2. It is done.

[CoffeeCat]

3. What is done?

Dare I ask.

:scared:

[Canuckistanian]

4. Wow, look at this.

According to Washington Post Staff Writer Dafna Linzer, “Ford’s team endorsed Iranian plans to build a massive nuclear energy industry, but also worked hard to complete a multibillion-dollar deal that would have given Tehran control of large quantities of plutonium and enriched uranium – the two pathways to a nuclear bomb. Either can be shaped into the core of a nuclear warhead, and obtaining one or the other is generally considered the most significant obstacle to would-be weopons builders.”



What the current Bush Administration is asserting, particularly through its news agency Fox News, is that it needs to prevent Iran from achieving the exact same nuclear capabilities that President Ford and his key appointees, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz were encouraging Iran to accomplish 30 years ago.

[Marie26]

6. There's one diff., though

30 years ago, wasn't the Shah of Iran in power? He was a pro-Western, pro-American leader (puppet?) who had a lot of support from the US. I can see Ford, etc. helping our ally Iran then. Once the Ayatollah took over & Iran became an enemy, we stopped funding them. To me, this just shows the short-sightedness of nuclear proliferation - an ally can become an enemy pretty easily.

[Canuckistanian]

8. Oh, I know that

This is just one more example of blowback that was engineered by the usual suspects. They're always willing to help a bloody dictator when he's on their side.

And this makes THREE major blowbacks

-The mujahedin in Aghanistan which became Al-Qaeda

-Saddam Hussein

-Iran nuclear threat

Porobably none of these would have been considered a threat if not for:

Rumsfeld. Cheney. And Wolfowitz.

[NYC]

12. Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz.

Those names keep turning up, don't they?

You're right about blowback. All this meddling (we like the leader, let's give them nukes -- we don't like the leader, let's take the nukes away) just shows that we have a very shortsighted foreign policy.

And the same 3 names are involved in that shortsightedness.

[Clara T]

5. Kicked and Recommended- Need More

[catmandu57]

7. The trouble is joe bloe isn't going to read this

or even hear about it on what passes for news, all he's going to hear is Iran terror nuclear, and how they're daring us to knock the stick off.

[RazzleDazzle]

9. Meanwhile they distract us with abortion debates, gay marriage

debates, free speech squabbles, fights over church-and-state issues, and so forth and so on. If Patriotism isn't an issue, you can be sure NONE OF THESE OTHER THINGS matter to those who benefit from what's described in that article. We've got to learn to stop playing so we can focus on what's really happening.

I'm not holding my breath.

[EVDebs]

10. Iran's petro-euro bourse kicks in Mar 20th, anniversary of Iraq invasion

So it looks like both sides have mapped out their military plans. Too bad there aren't sane players (like JFK and Krushchev for example during Cuban missile crisis). Just two religious nutcases who don't care about God or people, just their versions of eschatologic endtime prophesies.

[Just Me]

11. Sick shit.

The lure of huge profits drives the perpetual war machine, the U.S. Bearers of Death & Destruction. ;(