Iran: Haven’t We Seen This Movie Before?

“Weapons are more dangerous than potential. Potential is troubling too” (Clinton); “That (Iran’s nuclear capability) is an issue upon which intelligence services still differ” (Clinton); “They are not nuclear-capable…How do you differentiate how far…they have gone…If their policy is to go to the threshold but not assemble a nuclear weapon, how do you tell that they have not assembled? So it becomes a serious verification question. And I don’t actually know how you would verify that” (Gates).

So there is once again no such thing as international law. It is enough that the USA (or actually Israel) perceives there is a threat in an Islamic Republic of Iran with any semblance of nuclear capacity and therefore the intelligence services will come up with “wonderful intelligence” as Colin Powell said of the British ten-year-old doctorate thesis copied and pasted from the Net about Saddam Hussein’s infamous and non-existent WMD which the USA itself has since admitted was wrong (when does the case go to a Court?)

The case has already been presented, for if the USA is postulating that there is no credible way to check what Iran has, then this creates a casus belli, in their warped and biased way of thinking.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have seen this movie before. Reading between the lines in this latest interview, we see ominous overtures. And notice that The Islamic Republic of Iran (the country’s name) was not referred to once. A case of total disrespect, preceding what?

*NBC Interview with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and US Defense Secretary Gates on Sunday April 11, 2010.

Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY