Pen Meets Paper, Sept. 22, '08

Pen Meets Paper
Opinion by Helge Nome
While the sorry tale of the carnage on Wall Street continues and occupies the airwaves, along with election trivia, things are moving rapidly in the Middle East: According to the news agency DEBKAfile in Israel :
“The director of research at Israeli military intelligence (AMAN), Brig. Yossi Baidatz, surprised the Israeli cabinet Sunday Sept. 21, with a new appreciation of Iran’s nuclear timetable. Tehran, he disclosed, has already stocked one-third or even half the quantity of enriched uranium needed for a nuclear bomb. He warned the ministers that Iran is dashing at top speed towards a nuclear weapons capability and nothing stands in the way of its headlong advance, including international sanctions.

Separately, former Israeli army chief Lt. Gen (Res.) Moshe Yaalon said in a radio interview that an Israel-Iranian war is unavoidable.”
So the stage is being set for an attack on Iran by Israeli forces which will likely drag in the major world powers in due course with unpredictable consequences. Remember the CIA intelligence reports (which turned out to manufactured) that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction ready to be used? The pattern looks to be very similar and special interest groups in Israel are now working towards setting up a government that is up the the job of conducting a war. For daily developments from news sources around the world, see my Blog: http://helgenome.blogspot.com.
I believe the timing of these events is closely tied to what is happening on Wall Street where the biggest international banks now effectively control the U.S. Government through their people working in key positions within the government structure including the Treasury and Federal Reserve. (Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke, among others). The U.S. Congress has been cajoled and intimidated into becoming the tail of the dog, rather than the dog itself, a process that began in earnest with the 9/11 event.
As mentioned in this column before, the object of a war against Iran is the replacement of the Islamic Republic government with one which is a stooge for western economic interests like the one operated by the Shah of Iran before the revolution.