We recently learned from a National Intelligence report that Iran discontinued work on developing a nuclear weapon in 2003. There is evidence that President Bush was given this information, yet he continues to hype his goal of a war with Iran.
With the Iraq/Afghanistan wars costing $500,000 a minute, money that we could spend on health care and infrastructure, the United States cannot afford an additional war. We must find a diplomatic solution to Bush's sense of conflict with Iran. Estimated cost of our present wars has risen to a total of $3 trillion dollars and now Bush has made a commitment to the Iraqis for "long term" occupation. The generations to come are being saddled with a horrendous fiscal burden; if they cannot pay, our country will go bankrupt and/or we will depend on China to control our economy. The cost in physical and mental losses and death of our young soldiers is beyond imagination.
The Christmas season is a distraction from what is happening in Washington, D. C. Write or call Mike Crapo, Larry Craig and Mike Simpson to tell them you do not favor war with Iran, regardless of the lies we are told to try to convince us we should bomb Iran.
To learn the background on U.S."/Iranian relations, read All The Shah's Men, An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror," (available at local libraries) by Stephen Kinzer who was N.Y. Times bureau chief in Istanbul in 1953. That is when the British persuaded the U.S. CIA to do their dirty work by overthrowing Iran's democracy and installing the brutal regime of the Shah to oversee the financial interests of British Petroleum. The time for action against another war is now.
Barbara Dargatz
Hailey
