WHY AHMADINEJAD AND CHAVEZ ARE RIGHT
By Vincent A. Cowherd

Tehran Times, Iran
Sept 30 2006

It is amazing how the United States deals with its history by either
hiding its head in the sand or attempting to rewrite the accounts of
its shameful behavior. What is even more disturbing is that the much
vaunted "free press" in the U.S. is complicit in this intellectual
rape of the general populace. The collaboration between the delusional
political prostitutes that act as the government and the intellectual
eunuchs who make up the communications media has left the American
public deaf, dumb and blind to the truth.

Americans need to know that both President Mahmud Ahmadinejad of
Iran and President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela spoke the truth in their
respective presentations to the United Nations General Assembly
recently. By knowing the truth we will be able to see through the
politics of fear and the mountains of illusions and outright lies
that the Bush administration has used to drive the country into the
grip of the neo-fascists who hold the reigns of government.

Anyone who doubts President Ahmadinejad’s veracity needs to familiarize
him/herself with the 20th century history of the nation of Iran. It
was indeed the United States and Great Britain that in 1953 overthrew
the legitimate government of Iran, ousted Dr. Mohammed Mossadeq —
the legitimate prime minister — and installed their puppet, the
murderer and international gangster Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi,
to do their bidding. And, since 1979, when the Iranian people threw
that criminal out and took their country back, the U. S.

and Britain have been engaged in plot after plot to destabilize and
topple the democratically elected government of Iran. This cannot be
denied, and when President Ahmadinejad pointed this out, he spoke
the truth and exposed the lie that is the foundation of the Bush
administration’s foreign policy.

Additionally, there is no doubt whatsoever that the United States
government not only gave Saddam Hussein military intelligence but also
provided him the means to produce the arms he used in his eight-year
war against Iran, which caused the death of over one million people. It
is an indisputable fact that these arms included the poison gases
that were used against the Iranians, the Kurds and the Shia Muslims
who lived in the marshlands of southern Iraq.

The pictures of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands and grinning in the
madman’s face are a matter of public record. This cannot be denied
by the world any more than the Ottoman slaughter of the Armenians
and the German slaughter of the Gypsies, Poles and Russians can be
denied. The truth is that, by way of their puppet Saddam, the blood
of the dead in Iran’s war with Iraq, the blood of the Kurds, the
blood of the Marsh Shias and all of those others who were tortured
and killed by Saddam is on the hands of the U.S. government.

In the recent history of the relationship between the United States
and Venezuela, it is abundantly clear that the Bush administration was
complicit in the short-lived April 2002 military coup that temporarily
ousted the democratically elected president, Hugo Chavez.

The United States Navy — under orders from Commander-in-Chief George
Bush — jammed the Venezuelan government’s communications and supplied
the usurpers with intelligence and logistical support before, during
and after the feeble, ill-fated coup. After the coup was rebuffed,
United States government operatives — again under Bush’s orders —
spirited the coup leaders and their would-be assassins out of the
country and into the United States, where they are living today.

This was not the only time that the U.S. has been implicated in plots
to maim or murder President Chavez. In September of 2003, President
Chavez had to cancel a flight to the U.S. to speak before the United
Nations because his security people uncovered another CIA plot;
this one designed to bring down his airplane en route to the United
States. That same month, after an intense gun battle, Directorate of
Intelligence and Prevention Services (DISIP) agents arrested a man
who, in yet another CIA-backed plot, tried to kill President Chavez
with a hand grenade. Neither of these incidents was ever reported in
the U.S. press.

Political prostitutes and media eunuchs are as old, real and American
as apple pie. The combination of the two has been misleading the
American people for centuries, and all the current hoopla about the
comments of presidents Ahmadinejad and Chavez is the continuation of
a behavior that has led the U.S. into war and mayhem time and time
again under administration after administration.

Whether the administration is Republican or Democrat does not matter —
Teddy Roosevelt and the press had the battleship Maine lie, Wilson
and the press had the sinking of the Lusitania lie (the history of
the plot between Winston Churchill, Woodrow Wilson and the Rothschild
and J.P. Morgan "money-men" to sink the Lusitania in order to get the
U. S. into WWI is too exhaustive to explore here), Franklin Roosevelt
and the press may have lied about Pearl Harbor just to get into WWII,
Eisenhower took over in Vietnam after the French were run out of
the country and the press lied about it, Johnson and the press lied
about events in the Gulf of Tonkin in order to keep up the Vietnam
fiasco, Reagan lied about "the threat" posed by Grenada and the press
willingly collaborated.

Now the press is helping the Bush regime foist the worst lie of them
all upon the American people. It has been proven over and over again
by commission after commission and inquiry after inquiry that since
September 11, 2001 the American people have been consistently lied to
regarding all aspects of the illegal invasion of Iraq and the so-called
"war on terror". President Bush and the members and representatives
of his cabinet have perpetrated this lie, and it has already cost over
2000 American lives, additional thousands of young American women and
men have been maimed and wounded, and it is estimated by some that
over 200,000 Iraqis have died. Day by day the number of casualties
keeps growing and the lie keeps going. There is no denying this fact
for anyone who is not deaf, dumb and blind.

President Bush calls himself a born-again Christian — he claims he
talked directly to God before invading Iraq — and President Chavez is
a devout Catholic. As such, both are familiar with the foundational
tenet of the Christian faith that says, "The Devil is a liar." While
some may say that the words of presidents Ahmadinejad and Chavez are
coarse and abrasive, they cannot say that they are untrue. However,
when measuring the words of President Bush against historical truth,
no similarity between his words and the truth is to be found. To
paraphrase that old saying, "If it looks like a devil, walks like a
devil and talks like a devil, it must be a devil."