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Obama-linked think tank calls for US “nuclear umbrella” in Middle East

by wsws (reposted)
Friday, March 6, 2009 : US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ratcheted up bellicose US rhetoric against Iran Wednesday, accusing the country of funding "terrorism" and interfering in the internal affairs of states throughout the Middle East. Her statements coincided with the release of a report by a Washington think tank with ties to the Obama administration suggesting that the US should establish a "nuclear umbrella" over the region.
Clinton made her remarks to reporters while flying to a NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels, having just completed her tour of the Middle East. The rhetorical attack was delivered in the context of growing indications that the Obama administration is continuing the essential policy of the Bush White House--seeking to isolate Iran while preparing for a possible military confrontation.

Making it clear that the question of Iran had been central to her talks in Israel, the occupied West Bank and Egypt, Clinton declared, "It is clear that Iran intends to interfere with the internal affairs of all these people and try to continue their efforts to fund terrorism, whether it's Hezbollah or Hamas or other proxies."

Washington has branded as "foreign terrorist organizations" both Hamas, which is the elected government of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and Hezbollah, which is one of the most powerful political organizations in Lebanon and part of the national unity government, because both have resisted Israeli occupations.

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by Tommy
There is nothing new in this bellicose talk. Since 1920 when U.S. Imperialism was given twenty-five percent of the oil space of Iraq by the British military conquorors of that country, they have kept a now opern now hidden agenda of complete monopoly take over of the entire regions oil supplies. It has shown as a military aggressor in the region, that it will stoop to any way possible to impose its control, including overthrowing independent democratic governments while installing dictatorships to gain control of the oil. What is new is the Nuclear threat which is what the Bush regime used with DU nukes and other WMD. Obama vited against the Iraq invasion saying that it was a war that should never have happened. In this he departs slightly from the more reactionary sections of the U.S. Oil Emprie, but does not fully oppose them as he fears he will have oversteped his allowable presidency. A Nuclear umbrella is another totally illegal military scheme that violates both the U.S. Constitution and the anti-fascist covenants to which the U.S.A. is signed on to and the U.S. Constitution says all foreign treaties signed on to by the U.S. are to be treated as the supreme laws of the land, hence the anti-war and green power movement.

The Nuremburg Trials (1945) chaired by U.S. Judge Jackson clearly says that the planning and doing of aggressive war (nuclear umbrella) is the supreme international crime on earth as it acctuates all other crimes high, low, big, and small on the planet. This is most unfortunate for the long suffering Holyland people as they have being looking forward to liberation from the biggest and most excessive interference in the area by the U.S. military which is far and away the most destructive intervener of any country in the region. What is needed is the complete thorough and total wtihdrawal of all their troops, to allow the cradle of civilization to unite and win independence and freedom for themselves to build infastructure and clean up the polluted mess left behind by the American forces throughout the region. Nothing but disaster can obtain from this significant escalation of the threat of increased violence in the middle east. Note they take their presence not as an outside invader and destroyer, but rather adopt an attitude of assumed by lying liberaters with permanent status in the region. They fool no one but them selves. Everyone in the regions knows that the message of increase aggressive war is being sent by the Oil Rulers of the United States, and the peoples of all those countries will have no choice but to increase their resistence to these bellicose threats to all life in the worlds only Holyland.
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