Lying About Security

Today there is yet more proof that anything this cabal declares is highly dubious. From a campaign declaring no nation building would be countenanced, to the international disgrace of announcing that WMD's were present although there were not, to invading a country that had not attacked and did not threaten us, to announcing we don't torture because we don't recognize the usual definitions of torture, to intervening in international efforts to combat global warming, this nation has slipped into the role of wayward roguery. We've had the gamut run over us by the White House liars.

From Iran, a denial has been made that our 'defense shield' could possibly be a defense against its missiles. Our defense shield has been visited on unwilling countries and caused Russia to threaten us with pointing its missiles at us. It isn't impossible that this is just another dangerous farce.

Iran's top security official on Monday called U.S. plans for an Eastern Europe missile defense shield that Washington says would protect U.S. allies from Iran a "joke," saying Tehran's missiles do not have the capability to reach Europe.

"Claims by U.S. officials that installing a missile defense system in Europe is aimed at confronting Iranian missiles and protecting Europe against Iran is the joke of the year," Ali Larijani told the state-run IRNA news agency.

"The range of Iran's missiles doesn't reach Europe at all," IRNA quoted Larijani as saying.

The United States has said plans to install a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe are meant to protect NATO allies against a missile launch from Iran. This week Bush is visiting Poland and the Czech Republic — former Soviet satellite states that are now NATO members, where Bush wants to base parts of the missile defense system.

On Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin assailed the White House plan and said that if the U.S. went ahead, Russia would have to take steps to restore the strategic balance in the world. He said he hoped that U.S. officials would change their minds.

"If this doesn't happen, then we disclaim responsibility for our retaliatory steps, because it is not we who are the initiators of the new arms race which is undoubtedly brewing in Europe," Putin told foreign reporters days before he heads to Germany for a summit with President Bush and other leaders of the Group of Eight.

Putin also said neither Iran nor North Korea have the rockets that the system is intended to shoot down, suggesting it would be used instead against Russia.

The present regime in Iran has, of course, not proved a source of greatly reliable information. It is more on a par with the war criminals in the U.S. government. Given the choice of which to believe, I could hardly choose one over the other.

When your international security is relying on two tantrum-throwing liars, it's not a situation that anyone can feel at ease about. The world gathering at the G8 Summit should be planning on putting some brakes on these two blithering idiots.