By Michael Collins Piper

.Americans have a stark choice and will
have to take sides. The issue is war with Iran. The battle lines are clearly drawn. Which side will you be on?
Opposing war: a distinguished array of ex-diplomats, intelligence officers and former high-ranking military figures (battle-tested veterans who know war first-hand). Among them: two retired chiefs of the U.S. Central Command, Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni and Navy Adm. William J. “Fox” Fallon.
Supporting war: Israel and its Washington lobby, bankrolled by a clique of billionaire families and financial groups who control the mass media and who fund the networks that now dominate the Republican Party.
This past week, the anti-war group released a formal report concluding an attack on Iran could potentially spark an all-out Middle East war, driving up the price of oil and making more enemies for America around the globe.
The pro-war group argues that unless action is taken, Iran will destroy Israel. America must come to Israel’s aid, even if American civilians die in retaliatory attacks. Some “collateral damage,” pro-war voices say, is worth the price of stopping Iran.
Thus far, Barack Obama seems to side with the anti-war forces. Mitt Romney — a close friend of Israeli warhawk Benjamin Netanyahu — is in the pro-war camp.
A lot of Americans who don’t want war — but who don’t like Obama whom they consider an ultra-liberal big spender — are supporting Romney, whose war aims will definitely bankrupt America. The former military leaders who oppose war say stopping Iran’s nuclear aims would require “a significantly expanded air and sea war over a prolonged period of time, likely several years,” and that “occupation of Iran would require a commitment of resources and personnel greater than what the U.S. has expended over the past 10 years in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined.”
Many backing Romney are part of the 47 percent of Americans whom Romney scoffed “believe they are victims,” entitled to things like Social Security and Medicare.
Ironically, Romney made those remarks at a gathering of pro-war plutocrats at the home of Jewish financier Marc Leder, ex-senior vice president at Lehman Bros., a Rothschild dynasty outpost on Wall Street. A key player in what the Jewish Forward described as “a small group of Jewish private equity investors, hedge fund managers and real estate developers [playing] an outsized role in [Romney’s] fundraising efforts”— many of them former Obama supporters — Leder’s circles regularly use the concept of Jewish victimhood to advance support for Israel.
Now Americans may truly become victims — in a foolish war against Iran. Americans must choose between the generals and the warmongers.

. . ..Michael Collins Piper is the author of Final Judgment, the controversial “underground bestseller” documenting the collaboration of Israeli intelligence in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He is also the author of The New Babylon, The High Priests of War, The New Jerusalem: Zionist Power in America , The Judas Goats: The Enemy Within, Dirty Secrets: Crime, Conspiracy & Cover-Up in the 20th Century, The GOLEM: Israel's Hell Bomb, and Target: Traficant. These works can be found at America First Books and FIRST AMENDMENT BOOKS: 1-888-699-NEWS. He has lectured on suppressed topics in places as diverse as Malaysia, Japan, Canada, Russia and Abu Dhabi.

 

(Issue Number 40, October 1, 2012, AMERICAN FREE PRESS)