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I stumbled on this brilliant article by Mike Bates. The facts he reveals on Ramsey Clark’s political activities over the last four decades are definitely un-American. One wonders why he was never charged with treason for aiding and abetting the enemy. I also found another article by Cliff May with more facts on his treason - Walt
It’s not surprising that former U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark is defending the monstrous Saddam Hussein. If Clark’s ever met an enemy of the United States he didn’t like, he’s managed to keep the fact a secret.
We owe it all to John F. Kennedy. Ramsey was toiling in Texas in well-deserved obscurity when Kennedy appointed him assistant attorney general.
The next step was promotion to attorney general under Lyndon Johnson. Since then, he’s racked up a record of anti-American activism few can match.
In 1972, he journeyed to North Vietnam to participate in the Communist-front International Committee of Inquiry into U.S. Crimes in Indochina. Not that the forum’s designation suggested any prior conclusions had been reached or anything.
Clark visited American POWs and declared, according to the Tribune Wire Services at the time, that the POWs were healthier than he was "and I am a healthy man." He claimed to be "particularly touched" by the hygienic conditions maintained for American prisoners.
Clark had been duped. After our POWs returned home, they detailed the torture and inhumane treatment they’d suffered.
Commander John McCain told U. S. News and World Report in 1973 that, "When Ramsey Clark came over they (the North Vietnamese) thought that was a great coup for their cause." It was.
Years later, a North Vietnamese general admitted: "Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda and former Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark and ministers gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses."
Today, CNN reports that Iran has invited the United States to bid on the construction of the plant at Darkhoin in the southwestern province of Khuzestan.
Iran denies they are attempting to build nuclear weapons.
Iran denies working toward nuclear weapons, saying its goal is to produce civilian energy and it has a right to enrich uranium. Talks between Iran and the so-called "EU 3" — Britain, France and Germany — on the matter stalled in August.
Source: CNN.com
But as we have seen in the previous post, Israel has serious concerns over Iran’s plan of building these nuclear plants. Especially with the anti-Jewish rhetoric spewing from Iran’s President Mahmoud Amadinejad, calling for the destruction of Israel.
Tensions between Iran and Israel are coming to a boiling point. The British Sunday Times reports Israeli Prime Minister Sharon announced that Israeli will launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran in March of next year against Iran's nuclear facilities. Intelligent sources believe Iran will have the capabilities to start producing nuclear weapons by March 2006 which is the point of no return for Israel security.
Iran's President Mahmoud Amadinejad recently made public statement about the need of annihilating Israel. And this week suggested Israel should be moved to Europe. Sharon decided the pre-emptive strike was needed after these threatening statements were made by Iran's President.
Israel is planning on deploying their special forces brigade, Unit 262 and the F-15I strategic 69 Squadron, which can strike Iran and return to Israel without refueling.
A major obstacle for the strike is that Russia will soon be selling to and setting up Iran with the advanced Tor-M systems capable of destroying guided missiles and laser-guided bombs from aircraft.
Although diplomatic options have not been ruled out by Sharon.
Israeli officials declined to respond to the report directly, but Sharon's spokesman Raeann Gissin did say, "Israel has no intention of launching an attack against Iran, definitely not before all diplomatic options have been exhausted."
He stressed that "Israel is not leading the campaign against Iran," but that that whole international community – chiefly the US and Europe – has been concerned and active on the issue.
Source: Jerusalem Post
This developing situation also directly will affect the United States and European nations.
Iran is getting very close in becoming the next nuclear power threat in the Middle East. Coming to the defense of Iran, Russia has signed an unprecedented agreement with Iran to sell them 29 of its Tor M-1 anti-missile systems. This development will complicate any planned pre-emptive attack on the rogue nation's nuclear facilities.
This anti-missile system could give the Iranian military the capabilities to intercept some cruise missiles if any country tries to challenge their growing nuclear threat.
The Russians are claiming they have the legal right to sell the arms as specified in the secret 1995 Gore-Chernomyrdin protocol. Thank you Mr. Gore!
The Gore-Chernomyrdin protocol was first disclosed publicly in 2000. It was the result of secret talks between then Vice President Al Gore and Russia's then-Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin. After the revelations in 2000, the State Department acknowledged Gore assured Russia that, under the provisions of the agreement, the U.S. would not sanction the Kremlin for Russian arm sales to Iran – through 1999.
One must wonder how many other secret agreements have been made between our government and other foreign governments that could affect the safety and well being of our military in the Middle East and general stability of the Middle East that is on very shaky grounds.
Bible prophecy experts have indicated that Russia will be a leading threat in the Middle East against Israel. Last month I reported that the purpose of Russia's presence in the Middle East in the Gaza Strip was to help the Palestinian Authority security forces enforce law and order. Much of the PLO and PA's weapons and equipment has been provided by the former USSR.