No commies here

What’s truly amazing is the statement, oft heard, that ‘pure’ communism (or socialism) has never existed in the real world. This is usually put forth by an advocate of what ‘true’ communism is supposed to be. You know, peace and love, sunshine and lollipops.

But they’re right. In the real world, ‘pure’ communism doesn’t exist. It doesn’t exist because attempting to achieve pure communism entails harsh repression, mass death, and genocide— and apparently no one has killed enough people yet to achieve pure communism.

The neo-leftist's among us view the march toward a more progressive society as a march toward a more humane and caring society. But in reality many progressive principles achieve a perverse outcome, like supporting dictatorships against the United States.

Case in point: Code Pink's latest screech. Alleging that Bush is poised to nuke Iran. The opposite seems more obviously true, but the left lives in a world of different facts.

So what's the point of this uber-progressive action alert? The illegality of Bush threatening to nuke Iran.

We are appalled that the United States is threatening a military strike against Iran, possibly using nuclear weapons. As you are well aware, a preventive strike is illegal under international law, and the threat to use nuclear weapons against Iran, a non-nuclear weapons state, is a violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that the United States has signed. A nuclear strike against Iran would undermine the entire legal framework of disarmament and non-proliferation that so many millions of people around the world, and the United Nations itself, have worked so hard to build and protect.

As the head of the United Nations, the repository of international law, you called the U.S./UK invasion of Iraq what it was: illegal. Now we call on you to tell the Bush administration and the world:

--That any preventive military strike against Iran is illegal.

--That even threatening a nuclear strike against Iran - a non-nuclear weapons state - is illegal.

 

A tangled web of useful idiots

Where do they get this stuff? Two facts are interesting to note:

1. Bush has not threatened a nuclear strike against any nation.
2. Iran has promised to nuke Israel.

These two facts equal a tangled web of progressive lies and illustrate the perversity of progressive opinion.

It's not enough that they lie about Bush threatening to nuke Iran, but then they actually call Bush's threat (which they made up) illegal! Ignoring the real enemy's promise to use nukes (to finish what Hitler started) as soon as they can develop them.

It's all very fascinating actually.

But there's more! Let's look a little deeper. 'Progressives' like Medea Benjamin purport to be anti-war because it is a womanly, caring-for-the-world thing to do. Hence the entire marketing strategy of code pink and their principal star spokes-mom Cindy Sheehan, a.k.a. media darling.

So, why is Code Pink so excercised about Iran? Usually, they go for strictly socialist dictators. I guess any dictator will do in a pinch. Or perhaps it's a case of 'any dictator in the world threatened by Bush is a friend of mine'?

I happen to think that it's slightly more than that and that there is a network developing that is all too obvious and as usual the progressive activists are the useful idiots.

You see, Iran is on the side of the good guys now.

The Iranian-Venezuelan Axis

Iranian pact with Venezuela stokes fears of uranium sales

Does anyone on the left believe that we are in a war? Probably not. Those that do apparently believe that the US is the enemy.

He [The Iranian Speaker with Venezuelan representatives] added, "The United States, Europe and Zionist regime impose economic pressures on Hamas government to oblige the Palestinian people to yield to them," and stressed that help of independent states including Latin American countries can neutralize the plot.

The hand of friendship for those with a common enemy.

He [Venezuela's National Assembly Nicolas Maduro in Tehran] said peaceful use of nuclear energy is an inalienable right of the Iranian nation, adding the two countries' parliament deputies and members of Parliamentary Friendship Groups can overthrow dictatorship in international community through cooperation and use of modern ways.

He called on all forces who fight against imperialism to establish a world where peace and friendship prevail.

The Venezuelan speaker stressed importance of bolstering bilateral cooperation in all fields of interests. irna.ir, Islamic Republic News Agency

 

Pure communism: a world where peace and friendship prevail?

What stands in the way of a world where peace and friendship prevail? Two nations stand out. The US and Israel.

"Like it or not," said Ahmadinejad, "the Zionist regime is heading toward annihiliation. The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm," he said.

The land of Palestine, he said, "will be freed soon."

..."The existance of [the Israeli] regime is a permanent threat" to the Middle East, he added. "Its existance has harmed the dignity of Islamic nations."

In his opening speech to the conference, Khamenei accused the United States of hatching plots against Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon to bring the entire region under Israeli control.

"The chain of plots by the American government against Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon - aimed at governing the Middle East through the control of the Zionist regime - will not succeed," he said. jerusalem post

 

So where are the protests from our progressive friends against Iran?

Posted by Eric Simonson at April 16, 2006 04:43 AM

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