UN is being invited to another Snark hunt by the Bush regime

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Iran: Here we go again

By Ian Williams
Mar 15, 2006

Security Council presidential statements are non-binding. But despite the toothless nature of the one under consideration at United Nations headquarters this week, it's a slippery slope.

The current US administration has a record of seeing a mandate where no one else can, and the gnomic comments of its members, refusing to exclude any possibilities and hinting at unilateral action if the UN fails to satisfy, should send chills down anyone's spine.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov put his finger on it last week when he talked about a sense of deja vu, referring to his time as ambassador when the US was trying to push the other members of the Security Council into authorizing an attack on Iraq for allegedly having weapons of mass destruction.

Now the UN is being invited to another Snark hunt, this time to authorize action against the future possibility of nuclear weapons, since not even the US Central Intelligence Agency has been elbow-twisted into manufacturing evidence of a proximate threat.

full article: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HC15Ak01.html

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1. I wonder how this will play out

One of this administrations favorite techniques is to claim that acknowledging the problem implies tacit support for their solution to the problem.

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2. they've deployed their agents of democracy to Dubai and elsewhere

to effect the overthrow of an elected government, in the name of democracy.

Yesterday the Bush regime took on Iran for their theocracy. No shit. Here we are, having spent over a trillion and countless lives lost in a Christian crusade to bring Jesus to the Middle East and Bush ends up with a ruling party, his Iraq junta, that is a theocracy-in-waiting, biding time until their masters depart.