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Farhad<p>Today is August 7, 80th anniversary of united state dropping the first atomic bomb on a civilian target in <a href="https://freefree.ps/tags/Hiroshima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hiroshima</span></a>, <a href="https://freefree.ps/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a>. </p><p>135000 people died in a matter of seconds and many more carried the scars of the most monstrous <a href="https://freefree.ps/tags/WMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WMD</span></a> with them for decades. </p><p>Today's <a href="https://freefree.ps/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> looks so much like Hiroshima. But unlike Hiroshi, the civilians in Gaza are dying a painful and torturous death in the past 22 months. </p><p><a href="https://freefree.ps/tags/NeverForget" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeverForget</span></a> <a href="https://freefree.ps/tags/NeverForgive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeverForgive</span></a> <a href="https://freefree.ps/tags/TIH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIH</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://freefree.ps/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://lemmy.ml/c/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine@lemmy.ml</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine@a.gup.pe</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/israel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>israel</span></a></span></p>
Preston MacDougall<p>When Pierre <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Trudeau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trudeau</span></a> was Prime Minister of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> he told <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/RichardNixon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RichardNixon</span></a> to “fuck off” when he tried to drag Canada into the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Vietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vietnam</span></a> quagmire.</p><p>Jean Chrétien was Prime Minister when the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/September11th" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>September11th</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/terrorist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>terrorist</span></a> attacks occurred. He sent <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Canadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canadian</span></a> troops to help the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> fight <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AlQaeda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlQaeda</span></a> in <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Afghanistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Afghanistan</span></a> but told <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/GeorgeWBush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeWBush</span></a> to “fuck off” when he wanted support invading <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Iraq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Iraq</span></a> after bogus claims about <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/WMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WMD</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> outlawed <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gerrymandering</span></a>. <a href="https://www.vox.com/2014/4/15/5604284/us-elections-are-rigged-but-canada-knows-how-to-fix-them" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vox.com/2014/4/15/5604284/us-e</span><span class="invisible">lections-are-rigged-but-canada-knows-how-to-fix-them</span></a></p><p>Moral: <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/BeLikeCanada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeLikeCanada</span></a></p>
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"Of course, we don’t know exactly how many nuclear warheads Israel has, because Israeli leaders refuse to publicly admit they have any. The whole military program is kept in near-total secrecy, under a policy called “strategic ambiguity,” meaning the existence of the bombs is neither confirmed nor denied. Historians believe Israel first got a nuclear weapon in 1967, after secretly refining plutonium at the Dimona facility and running a “full deception campaign” to convince U.S. inspectors the purpose of the reactors there was civilian rather than military. (Ironically, this is exactly the kind of deception Israel now accuses Iran of practicing.) It’s also strongly suspected that Israel tested a nuclear weapon off the coast of South Africa in 1979, in partnership with that country’s apartheid government. It’s called the Vela incident, after the spy satellite that spotted the nuclear flash. But “strategic ambiguity” means there’s little international oversight or accountability involved with any of this, and much of it takes place in violation of international law. Like North Korea and a small handful of other nations, Israel has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), despite United Nations resolutions that it should do so. It has signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963, but likely broke it with the South African incident. And most importantly, its leaders refuse to allow inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to access Dimona, so we have no way of knowing what’s going on in there.

Under U.S. law, Israel’s rogue nuclear program means that the United States should not be supplying it with military aid of any kind. The law in question is the International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of 1976, and its language is unambiguous. But for more than 50 years now, U.S. leaders have been willing to ignore their own laws and accept this..."

currentaffairs.org/news/wait-w
#Israel #Iran #NuclearWeapons #USA #WMD

www.currentaffairs.orgWait, Why Is Israel Allowed To Have Nukes?According to our elected leaders, we should be very scared of the possibility that Iran could get a nuclear bomb. But Israel already has them, and its government is increasingly unstable and belligerent.
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discovered the hugely accelerated nuclear program in recent months with the highly enriched fissible material doubling and new secret #nuclear program developing sites came to light.

2. The #ABC #WMD in #Iraq were never supposed to be of tge #nuclear category, but were supposed to be rather of the biological or chemical type, so no "forever-lasting" nuclear fallouts beyond the supposed area of deployment, were a threat, such as this time.

3. #Iran had, @rowat_c @su_liam @_L1vY_ @Chadbourn

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For the record. The ghost of Colin Powell's UN presentation... in a way.

On February 5, 2003, Colin Powell stood before the UN Security Council with maps, photos, and intercepted communications, declaring these were "facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence" proving Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program. Six weeks later, the Iraq invasion began based on this testimony. No WMDs were ever found, and Powell later admitted his speech was a "great intelligence failure" and permanent "blot" on his record. Twenty-two years later, Israel deploys strikingly similar rhetoric about Iran's "nuclear threat" to justify its strikes - same manufactured urgency, same unverified claims, same predictable script for war.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Po

#IAEA#WMD#Israel

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History, for no particular reason:

"I, of course, regret the U.N. speech that I gave, which became the prominent presentation of our case. But we thought it was correct at the time. The President thought it was correct. Congress thought it was correct." "Of course I regret that a lot of it turned out be wrong".

Colin Powell, The Daily Show, June 13th, 2012

#Iraq#WMD#USA