You will not invade Iran

[imomus]

I just want to say one thing very firmly and clearly to the newly re-inaugurated President Bush.

You will not invade Iran. Is that clear? You will not turn the square above into a 'green zone' for stooge politicians of your choosing and a restricted, embedded international press corps. You will not impose by force your conception of 'freedom'. You will not occupy Teheran and Ispahan, after a brief but terrible aerial bombing campaign, with your fucking jeeps, your mercenary 'contractors', your torture squads. You will not kill hundreds of thousands of Iranians now alive. You have no right even to be thinking about such a thing, let alone threatening it. Who the fuck do you think you are to go round the world invading countries one by one?

Hopefully the intelligence squads supposedly preparing a feasibility report on an invasion of Iran at this very moment will tell you the same thing I'm telling you. You (and Tony Blair) will not do this. If you do, I and millions like me will feel an intense revulsion not felt since the Spanish Civil War or Vietnam. We will make life a misery for you, and we will actively resist you every step of the way. I'm talking about individuals, governments, nations. You will become the black sheep of the entire world. You will excommunicate a great nation, your own, from all compassionate consideration. You will become a symbol of the problem, not the solution.

I'm hoping you will continue to be bogged down in the bloody morass of ever-worsening violence you have already perpetrated in Iraq and will not have the resources to commit any more crimes against international law. The violence in Iraq is appalling (it is your fault, and it was predictable). It seems callous to wish that violence to continue, but I can't help agreeing with this analysis in Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po newspaper:

'The main international issue to be faced during President Bush's second term in office will be an Iran war. The US' main attention will focus on West Asia. If the US can quite smoothly realize the goal of transforming Iran, then the US' main strategic direction will shift to East Asia in future, and China will face direct US pressure; if the US' war and political reform in Iraq is not smooth, then this shift will be delayed for a number of years.'

For the sake not just of Iran, but of the far east, we can only hope that the Iraq debacle keeps you tied up for years to come. Of course that's the second-best solution. The best solution is that you simply mind your own business for the next four years. Why not bring 'freedom and democracy' to your own nation first? Why not fight tyranny there? You could start by resigning.

Comments

I would rather be terrorized

[(Anonymous)]

Momus I sadly agree with you, but sadder still The vast majority of the American public does not. Personally, I would rather be supposedly "terrorized" then live in this 1984 excuse for a country. This war is political campaign that is only doing good by making hundreds of shameless people in The US and abroad rich off of defense contracts and oil theft.
The saddest part is that people like my surrounding neighbors and family totally buy into The Bush Administration's idea of "freedom" and the popular vote in America is to keep pushing until every brown person in the world is under our boot. Americans won't stand up because they spend their days in front of the tube ignoring the fact that their new shiny Chevy Tahoe is part of a systematic death warrant against any resource rich nation and believing that a nearly illiterate Prep school flunky is our safest bet for leadership. America isn't going to change until the American media and the populous changes drastically. The entire American asthetic and value system needs a face lift.
I hope You have open arms for some new American Ex-Pats.

USA!
Kim

Conspiracy Theory Psycho

[flyonawndshield.livejournal.com]

Momus, I apologize for the following angry post, but I can't resist.

Kim, get out of our country already then.
Christ, if you think this is 1984, go back to 8th grade and reread the damn thing. There is no police state. There isn't any organization keeping you from posting this crap (I guess there should be though, grrarg.).
And if you're trying to condemn consumer culture in the same breath as decisions made by the Bush administration, you fail to see that there isn't any connection between the two. American's arent glued to their TV like mindless slugs. They don't drive Chevy Tahoes to feel better about buying McDonalds burgers that are destroying the rainforest. You act like you're some kind of superior to us poor little Americans but then spout some kind of bleeding heart wash about minority oppression. Get real! If that's what you think it's about, you're missing the entire point. Corporatations may be profitting from what they see as an opportunity, but the common person has NOTHING to do with this. They don't want people to die, no one does. Leave the common man out of it, and send complaints to Rumsfeld and the other goons.
But yes, if you want to leave our country so badly, get the hell out of it and don't come back. Thanks!

Re: Conspiracy Theory Psycho

[(Anonymous)]

The "common persons", at least a massive number of them, re-elected this administration. Where were you last November 2nd? The "common persons" thought they could get away with it as long as the world kept thinking Bush was acting illegitimately, as an only criminal, but not anymore, not after the majority of Americans *explicity* supported Bush's agenda. YOUR COUNTRY AS A WHOLE NEEDS TO ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR ONCE IN YOUR FUCKING HISTORY.

Re: Conspiracy Theory Psycho

[flyonawndshield.livejournal.com]

Ahh, so we're the president's nanny now? Get a clue man.
So what if the VOTING majority reelected GWB. If you aren't a citizen of our country, mind your own business. I mean, you're criticizing us (voting maj. again) for electing who we wanted (as stupid as that was), which is basically trying to take our sovereign ability to elect our ruler out of our hands... hrm, sound familiar? That's what we did to Iraq, only they didn't exactly democratically elect ol' Saddam now did they?
So yes, we're responsible because we voted, but don't blame us for voting in the first place. It doesn't dirty our hands in the slightest.

God I hate politics.

Sorry Momus, I'll stop defending my poor ignorant fellow Americans for having the ability to choose their leader. Have a nice day.

Re: Conspiracy Theory Psycho

[(Anonymous)]

I am not Anonymous, I just don't have an account here. My real name is Roger and I have to say that I think Anonymous has a point. Many people in the US do not support Bush and his agenda but the vast majority are just as Anonymous described. Living the SUV lifestyle in the US is our reality. I passed by a sign on the entranceway doors to a mall that said "Double is in!" showing a girl wearing two of the same purses... and while after a second I realized it was obviously just another retarded advertising joke, for a moment it really seemed plausable - but only here. the whole reason the administration is doing this is because it's rooted in the self-absorbed, "what's a finite resource?" attitude this country was in reality, built on. some are enlightened but most are just part of that tradition and i think it will take a huge wave of change to stop what Bush is doing, from the bottom up.