Stop the war machine.

Editor,

So-called mainstream media have been hammering away -- reinforcing neural circuitry in their readers'/listeners' minds (see George Lakoff: "The Political Mind") -- for years to the effect that: "Iran is developing a secret nuclear weapon, Iran is developing a secret nuclear weapon, Iran is developing a secret nuclear weapon, . . . "

HELLO! Iran as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT): (a) is entitled to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes, (b) is being monitored openly and fully by the IAEA per the NPT, (c) is adjudged by the IAEA *NOT* to have a nuclear weapons program.

Paranoia on the part of the Imperial U.S.A. and nuclear-armed, non-NPT signatory Israel (it takes one to know one, remember?) is blowing the "threat" of Iran's legitimate uranium enrichment way out of proportion.

Did Iran overthrow the democratically elected government of the U.S.A. in 1953? Did Iran install, arm, and finance a murderous torturer called the Shah of IRAN in the U.S.A. for 26 years? Does Iran threaten in speech after speech to bomb the U.S.A?

Read "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" if you want to understand what the U.S.A. is up to in the Middle East and Central and Southern Asia. You are being brainwashed, my fellow Americans. Wake up and stop the U.S. war machine while there is still time.

re: "Iran Agrees to Send Enriched Uranium to Russia" (10/2/2009)