[HCCN] FW: Iran

[Judith Robbins]

A message from Veterans for Peace




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From: Doug Rawlings <rawlings at vfpmaine.org>
Reply-To: <listserv at vfpmaine.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 10:26:30 -0700
To: <listserv at vfpmaine.org>
Subject: Iran

 
Don¹t be Suckered into Another War

It has been a little over a month since the last US troops came home from
Iraq, from a war that was born out of lies and lasted over eight years and
damaged both countries immensely. So now shall we enter into a war with
Iran? If we do, it will be born out of lies and historical amnesia. Please
consider the following and then ask your elected officials to pursue peace
rather than war.

In 1953, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad
Mossaddegh, was overthrown in a coup engineered by the CIA and the British.
Power was transferred to the Shah, supported by the US until his overthrow
in 1979. The CIA and the Mossad (Israel) helped form the Savak, the Shah¹s
secret police which gained a reputation for extreme brutality. The US
enabled and approved the sale of nuclear technology to Iran under the Shah.
The US encouraged and armed Iraq (under Saddam Hussein) in their war against
Iran, which lasted from 1980 to 1988 and in which hundreds of thousands of
Iranians died. In January, 2002, after having rebuffed Iran¹s offer of
assistance to the US after 9-ll, Pres. Bush named Iran as part of the Axis
of Evil. 

None of the above excuses the repression and misdeeds of the Iranian
government. Just be clear, this isn¹t a showdown between good guys and bad
guys.

We must be smart enough and active enough as citzens to not be suckered into
another war. And if we are by far the strongest military power on earth, why
should we be afraid of true diplomacy?

Mike ferner, VFP ED

  


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