Dick Cheneyā€™s message has been received: Saudi Arabia and Israel prepare for Nuclear War while Iran tries to broker peace :: PEJ News :: Stories, Features, Opinion and Analysis

If peace was the object of Cheneyā€™s tour, then why are Saudi Arabia and Israel preparing for Nuclear War? Why did violence in Iraq increase, requiring an Iranian brokered peace deal? Was the ā€incident in the Strait of Hormuzā€¯ just a mistake? Is Iranian military buildup along the border continuing? Why is the US deploying a nuclear sub to the Persian Gulf and beefing up itā€™s navy off the coast of Syria and Lebanon? All of this on the heals of Admiral William Fallonā€™s resignation! So many coincidences and so few answers from our leaders.

So what can we concluded from all this? I believe the following two maps showing the location of US military bases in the Middle East and existing and proposed oil and gas pipelines should answer our questions.

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That was simple enough, but what would an attack on Iran mean for the world? The following are just a few of the consequences:

The boundaries that we see on world maps marking the territories of countries are just what we see - lines on a piece of paper. Iranians are not confined to lines drawn by European powers decades ago. Iranians live not only in Iran but also, en masse, in all the countries in the region. Certain parts of Iranā€™s neighbors even speak dialects of Farsi. So if the United States bombs Iran, since there is no way they have any intentions of invading, they would be declaring war on parts of every country surrounding Iran. This would mean that the United States would be at war with every country in the region since civil war would breakout in all the US installed puppet regimes. This could explain why the United States has created a new map of the Middle East.

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Not only are Iranians spread out in the region, they are also living, en masse, in the rest of the world. The Iranian Diaspora Population map shows that approximately 2.5 million live in the US alone, 700,000 in the Canada, 300,000 in the UK, and 2 million in India. If a war breakouts between the US and Iran then what transpired with the internment of Japanese Americans and Canadians during World War II would become a distant memory and a travesty that will be repeated. Unfortunately it appears that the United States is prepared for this scenario, since it has already built 800 FEMA prison camps which are fully operational and ready to receive prisoners.

A question does come to mind however; will a nation of Christians and non-Muslims be able to prevent genocide during this World War? I personally doubt it, because the threat from those who are of Middle Eastern descent will be a real one that Western governments will exploit.

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If the United States attacks Iran, then Iran could stop exporting oil and/or ā€get tough and close down all oil-tanker traffic that comes within range of (its) missilesā€“which would mean little or no oil from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, or the smaller Gulf statesā€¯. This is a very likely scenario, but what exactly does ā€global oil rationing, industrial shutdowns, and the end of the present economic eraā€¯ mean? One way to fully understand the impact of such an event is to look at Africa. The population of Africa at the present is approximately 1 billion. According to a recent presentation at a United Nations conference, it is estimated that ā€nearly 75% of the continent could come to rely on some sort of food aid by 2025ā€¯. If there is ā€global oil rationingā€¯ then it is safe to assume that feeding Africans would become a low priority operation for the rest of the world. This could mean that 750 million people could starve to death in Africa.

Just to put things into perspective, making sure that it is fully understood what the impact of an attack on Iran really means, consider this. The United States has already stated that they will use nuclear weapons in an aerial bombardment campaign against Iran. Since the creation of the atomic bomb, it has been accepted that once nuclear weapons are used again in any war, then they will continue to be used until there is no one left to kill. As the saying goes, you do not bring a knife to a gunfight, so once a nuclear weapon has been used on any country then that country and its people have a right to use unclear weapons in retaliation. Albert Einstein once said, ā€I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stonesā€¯. I personally hope that we will not fulfill Einsteinā€™s prophecy.

This is what Dick Cheneyā€™s visit to the Middle East has accomplished: bringing us one step closer to terminal nuclear war.

Note: Less we forget, thanks to courageous American Airmen, we were lucky enough to avert a nuclear catastrophe which, reportedly, Dick Cheney had orchestrated in last years Nuclear B-52 incident. If we will be lucky enough to prevent such an event this time around is anyoneā€™s guess.

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