Bush and Hillary Two Sides of the Same Coin?

from the ICH blog. It seems that the two parties are two sides of the same coin in the US. The Democrats may be a bit more progressive on domestic programs but that is about it.


W and Hillary: Two Sides of the Same Coin

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Sunday, 04 February 2007
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

Speaking at the Democratic National Convention’s winter meeting, Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton declared that once she becomes president, she would end the war in Iraq and restore the basic promise of America. Mrs. Clinton, who voted for the illegal invasion of sovereign Iraq, knows she must end the Iraq war in order to launch another – a war on sovereign Iran.


02/04/07 "ICHBlog" -- -- This clever and yet unimaginative woman has failed to come up with her own rhetoric. Borrowing from W. she shamelessly echoes him: "In dealing with this threat ... no option can be taken off the table." And so she intends to restore the basic promise of America by engaging the country in a far more violent conflict. The road to the White House is no longer through Iraq, but through the ruins of Iran. What an irony that the self-acclaimed civilized Western world deems it necessary to destroy the cradle of civilization as if the reflections of the past are a threat to its bogus and fragile ‘civilization’.

American policy makers distract world opinion by misrepresenting Ahmadinejad’s remarks, exaggerating the gravity of the “myth” remark so that by contrast and through distraction, they can exonerate themselves of the responsibility of the death toll in Iraq and the ruin of a nation which was brought about as a result of their ineptness. Accusations of bigotry are all the more cynical because the very country that is pointing the finger recently witnessed a Moslem Congressman be shunned by a fellow Jewish Congressman with these words:

“Congressman Keith Ellison should not be allowed to do so - not because of any American hostility to the Koran, but because the act undermines American civilization,' Prager argued. “Insofar as a member of Congress taking an oath to serve America and uphold its values is concerned, America is interested in only one book, the Bible.”

It is worthwhile reminding ourselves that Iran’s parliament has enjoyed a diversity of minorities including the Jews whom Mrs. Clinton would have the Americans believe the Iranian government wants to annihilate. While it is contemptible of Ahmadinejad to question the Holocaust in spite of all the evidence, the realities and horrors of what is taking place in Iraq today as a result of US actions can hardly match up to the idiotic remarks of the Iranian president. His words have only served to further isolate the Iranian nation and play into the hands of warmongers, not cost hundreds of thousands of lives - although some would like to misinterpret the words in to deeds as justification for their own barbaric behavior.

In the same vein as W. and other neo-cons, Hillary insists on repeating Ahmadinejad’s speech purposefully incorrectly translated by MEMRI and propagated to the general public by the mainstream media to arm the neo-cons. The next war she is planning in order to return to the White House as its Commander-in-Chief would cost America dearly. Who knows if there would be enough body bags to bring home our true defenders of the flag, much less mend the fabric of our morality and dignity.

If Hillary wants to restore the basic promise of America as she claims she does, she would do well to recall George Washington’s farewell address as a guide to patriotism.

Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich has lived and studied in Iran, the UK, France, and the US. She obtained her Bachelors Degree in International Relations from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She is currently pursuing her education in Middle East studies and Public Diplomacy. Soraya has done extensive research on US foreign policy towards Iran and Iran’s nuclear program. She can be reached at sorayau@earthlink.net