Sarkozy Gives Neocons a Nod and Wink

Kurt Nimmo
Sunday Sept 2, 2007

Now we have the little neocon stooge, French president Sarkozy, characterizing “Iran’s nuclear ambition the world’s most dangerous problem” and threatening to bomb the country “if it persisted in building an atomic weapon,” reports the Times Online. “The biggest challenge to the world was the avoidance of conflict between Islam and the West, President Sarkozy told the annual gathering of French ambassadors. Iran was the crossroads of the Middle East’s troubles and its nuclear aims ‘are without doubt the most serious crisis that weighs today on the international scene’, he said.”

As a French version of a neocon, Mr. Sarkozy is a proponent of “conflict between Islam and the West,” not the other way around, a fact revealed by his comments about Iran building a “nuclear weapon,” a fantasy at best. In order to learn the truth, Sarkozy only need consult the IAEA, or at least read the news.

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“Iran’s uranium enrichment program is operating well below capacity and is far from producing nuclear fuel in significant amounts, according to a confidential U.N. nuclear watchdog report obtained by Reuters…. the IAEA report said Tehran remained far short of [the threshold required to manufacture nuclear weapons]. Iran had just under 2,000 centrifuges divided into 12 cascades, or interlinked units, of 164 machines each refining uranium at its underground Natanz plant as of August 19, it said.”

Of course, this is but a minor nuisance, as the neocons plan to kill Iranian toddlers and grandmothers no matter what the IAEA reports. In fact, lining up the American people in a neat row behind this plan will be a minor hurdle. Consider the ability of the corporate media to convince clueless Americans that Saddam and Osama collaborated in the attacks of September 11, 2001. So effective was this propaganda effort, a Hitlerian Big Lie repeated over and over, that to this day many Americans cannot tell the difference between Osama and Saddam, who were in fact arch enemies. Making the Iran nuke story stick will likewise be no problem.

“To actually say that if diplomacy fails the choice will be to accept a nuclear Iran or bomb Iran, this is a diplomatic blockbuster,” Francois Heisbourg, a special adviser to the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris, told the New York Times. “Mr. Sarkozy stressed that such an outcome would be a disaster and did not say that France would ever participate in military action against Iran or even tacitly support such an approach. But the mere fact that he raised the specter of the use of force is likely to be perceived by Iran as a warning of the consequences of its continued course of action,” the newspaper adds. In other words, even though Iran is experiencing apparently insurmountable problems with its uranium enrichment program, designed for its energy needs, it will be required to grovel and plead, not that this will prevent the neocons from unleashing massive violence against its people. Iran, of course, will not grovel and plead, and the bombing and mass murder campaign is imminent.

France does not need participate “in military action against Iran or even tacitly support such an approach,” so long as Sarkozy makes sure the first item on France’s foreign policy agenda is a round condemnation of Iran. “Sarkozy now officially joins the US thunder and lightning unleashed by the White House, the Pentagon, Republicans, Democrats and corporate media, which all take for granted the ‘all options are on the table’ scenario as far as Iran is concerned,” writes Ed Strong. As Strong notes, it appears the people of France are nearly as clueless as their American counterparts: “After more than 100 days in power, he’s still immensely popular in France, frantically monopolizing the political spectrum on an around-the-clock basis,” a monopolization certain to benefit the neocons.

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