US Acting Like a Punk, Again

Later on today the UN is set to vote on new sanctions regarding Iran. The country has every right to enrich uranium for it's electricity generating nuclear power plants because Iran signed the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, but that doesn't stop the US from it's belligerent posture. In fact, once a country gets put in it's sights, The US stops at nothing to crush it. Usually the favored route is through the UN fig leaf but if more immediate action is called for than even that is disregarded. Like the invasion of Panama with Operation Just Cause (we feel like it).

Iran' president Ahmadinejad wanted to attend and speechify before the vote but apparently the State Department had other priorities and didn't get the required visas to the Iranians on time. The Iranian Foreign Minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, will attend instead.

"Any suggestion that visa issues are the cause of President Ahmadinejad's decision not to travel to New York is false," says State spoke flack Tom Casey.

With this cabal of serial liars you know that they were tasked with keeping Ahmadinejad out of New York before the vote, which was pushed so hard by the US that the current president of the security council got pissed:
"Also Thursday, Dumisani Kumalo, the U.N. ambassador from South Africa, which holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council this month, said he felt steamrollered into a Saturday vote on the resolution.
"I feel like I was misled," he said, adding that he had been led to believe that he would have more time to consider the resolution."

So why was a high profile visit by the president of Iran so adamantly opposed by BushCo? Well maybe he was going to open his nuclear facilities like he declared he was going to do a few days ago. Not only would that have taken the wind out of the sanction's sails but also would be a barrier to all out war with Iran, something the fascists are itching to get going on.

Back to those sanctions which no doubt will be implemented:

"The draft resolution would ban Tehran from exporting arms, calling for voluntary trade sanctions and expanding a list of officials and companies targeted for financial and travel restrictions."

Hmmm, I wonder if that list of companies includes Halliburton? Nope, it sure doesn't since even though American corporations have been prohibited from doing business with supposed terrorist governments, Halliburton has been doing a bang up business in Iran since the 90s. I guess they get the same no bid contracts there like they do in Iraq since they'the only game in town.

And back to the vote again, could it be possible that incident where those British soldiers getting arrested by the Iranians was a set up to give Iran a black eye and a chance for Britain to bloviate before the UN vote? Just asking.