“Tree let your arms fall
Raise them not sharply in supplication to the bright enhaloed cloud
Let your arms lack toughness and resilience
For this is no mere axe to blunt, nor fire to smother...
For this is no ordinary sun”

A poem by New Zealand serviceman Hone Tuwhare who witnessed the devastation in Hiroshima 63 years ago. Today is the anniversary of the 1st of the two nuclear weapons that America dropped on Japan. America remains the only country to have ever used Nukes, and they have done so twice. It is thus somewhat ironic and also two-faced and hypocritical that the Americans are desperate to avoid Iran getting these weapons when they themselves are the only ones to have used them.

And yet the CIA reports that Iran halted it’s nuclear ambitions in 2003 and is now only interested in nuclear power:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/03/america/cia.php

“A new assessment by American intelligence agencies made public Monday concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains on hold, contradicting an assessment two years ago that Tehran was working inexorably toward building a bomb”

So why the current aggressive stance against Iran by both Israel and America? Here’s an article from last year:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1563293/Bush-setting-America-up-for-war-with-Iran.html

“Pentagon planners have developed a list of up to 2,000 bombing targets in Iran, amid growing fears among serving officers that diplomatic efforts to slow Iran's nuclear weapons programme are doomed to fail”

But they haven’t been pursuing such a plan since 2003, according to the CIA. Are the CIA really that incompetent, or are they simply being ignored?

Some say that Bush intends to get Iran bombed massively before he leaves office in a joint attack with Israel.

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Some interesting similarities between Iran and USA

1. Execution
2. Presidents believe they have god on their side
3. Sponsorship of terrorism
4. Use propaganda to brainwash their own population
5. Lie to make their opponents look worse than they are
6. Presidents desire “regime change” in the Middle East
7. Majority of population have religion as the driver for their political views
8. Accusations of rigged elections

Tom.