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Titolo: U.S. endorsed Iranian plans to build massive nuclear energy industry

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Cheney Rumsfeld & Wolfowitz behind Iran Nuclear Program initiated during
Ford Administration
by Ed Haas
March 6, 2006
Muckraker Report.
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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.  
 
When Gerald Ford assumed the Presidency in August 1974, the current Vice
President of the United States, Richard B Cheney served on the transition
team and later as Deputy Assistant to the President. In November 1975, he
was named Assistant to the President and White House Chief of Staff, a
position he held throughout the remainder of the Ford Administration.[1]
 
In August 1974, the current Secretary of Defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld served
as Chairman of the transition to the Presidency of Gerald R. Ford. He then
became Chief of Staff of the White House and a member of the President's
Cabinet (1974-1975)[2] and was the Ford Administration’s Secretary of
Defense from 1975–1977.  
 
The current President of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz served in the Arms
Control and Disarmament Agency under President Gerald Ford.[3]  Wolfowitz
is considered as a prominent architect of the Bush Doctrine, which has come
to be identified with a policy that permits pre-emptive war against
potential aggressors before they are capable of mounting attacks against
the United States. 
 
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]
 
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.  Iran, a party to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, is
guaranteed the right to develop peaceful nuclear power programs –
regardless of whether the United States approves or disapproves the
politics or political leadership of that country; a point that Iran has
repeated over and over again.  For 30 years, Iran has proclaimed that it
needs nuclear power since its oil and gas supplies are limited, just like
the United States, and therefore has the legal right to produce and operate
nuclear power plants.  Thirty years ago, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld
agreed.  Today, Cheney and Rumsfeld appear to be crawling out of their
skins with uncontrollable militarized lust for control of Iranian oil
fields via a U.S. occupied, Iran.  The NEO-CON war drumbeaters have already
devised their plans for the liberation of the people again, this time
Iranian people, and making things all better, just like they have done in
Iraq.  Scary stuff, but it is true. In preparation, the Bush Administration
has primed the mainstream media so effectively that 8 out of 10 Americans
believe Iran poises an immediate nuclear threat to the United States.  The
President’s recent and risky travel to regional nuclear powers, Pakistan
and India, no doubt also served as a strategic warning to those countries
to prepare for the certain public backlash to be expected once the U.S. or
Israel begins to drop bombs on Iran. 
 
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.  What is most disturbing about the
relationship between the Fed, IMF, and World Bank is that the $37.2 billion
the U.S. is obligated to pay to the IMF annually, is actually secured by
the American taxpayer.  We the People, and the ability of the U.S. Congress
to confiscate our wealth through that unconstitutional apparatus referred
to as a federal income tax, makes loaning money to the Islamic Republic of
Iran easy because 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. 
 
Finally, but very much part of the U.S. government’s charade aimed at
deceiving the American people into believing that the U.S. has played no
part in the development of Iran or its nuclear power programs, is the
absolute economic threat that Iran poses to the global value of the U.S.
dollar.  Unless the U.S. intervenes, on March 20, 2006 the world will have
the option of purchasing oil with euros instead of dollars through the
opening of the Iranian Oil Bourse.  The Iran Oil Bourse will be the third
exchange in which global oil transactions will be executed.  While
financial analysts debate whether such an exchange operating solely in
euros will have the potential to collapse the U.S. economy, the complete
silence of the mainstream media regarding this most important untold story
can be interpreted as a sign that this suggested economic threat is real. 
As the Bush Administration has proven itself to be the most dishonest,
secretive presidency in the history of the United States, it has repeatedly
demonstrated that the truth about its motives and agendas can only be found
in what is not being reported to the American people.  And if the Iran
nuclear threat rhetoric is the firewall that the U.S. government is hiding
the U.S. dollar global supremacy behind, than any military action in Iran
will be solely on behalf of the member banks of the Federal Reserve – at
the expense of American sons and daughters serving in the U.S. military and
at the burden of the U.S. taxpayer who is already indebted to the federal
government to the tune of $28 thousand, which is each and every American’s
current share of the Federal Reserve / U.S. Congress banking cartel
produced national debt - $28,000 and growing faster than ever! 
 
Here’s a patriotic challenge and very American gut check for your
consideration:  Next time you hold your children and / or grandchildren,
look them in the eye and explain to them how they are, right at this very
moment, indebted to the federal government of the United States of America,
to the tune of $28,000, and then ask yourself how you allowed it to happen. 
Sobering fact that feels better to ignore, does it not?  But hell, we’re
spreading democracy, right?  I don’t think so, and hopefully soon, neither
will you. 

 Ford Administration
#_Se sapeva! 'Sti tre vampiri, so' sempre pronti  affa' ovunque 'r loro
gioco "Penelope".
G.

Giano wrote:

Magari si sapeva, pero' l'importante e' fornire sempre piu' armi,
(ovviamente con i dovuti scudi per Europa e Israele), a queste scimmie
barbute, in modo che si ammazzino tutti tra di loro.
Se tutto va bene, la guerra civile tra sciiti e sunni in Iraq infiammera'
tutta la zona, con Iran e Pakistan che si bombardano a vicenda.
Grazie Donald!

 Grazie Donald!
#_You're welcome  M.I.C.K.E.Y.  M.O.U.S.E.!