[R-G] My Questions for Langevin About Iran

[Suzanne de Kuyper]

What were the answers to your questions?  Or, were your questions
rhetorical?
Suzanne de Kuyper
Amsterdam

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Sid Shniad <shniad at sfu.ca> wrote:

>
>   [1]iStockAnalyst   Thursday, July 31, 2008
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>
>   My Questions for Langevin About Iran
>
>
>   Apparently under orders from AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs
>   Committee), Rhode Island's U.S. Representatives Patrick Kennedy and
>   James Langevin co-sponsored HCR 362 -- a mysterious and dangerous
>   resolution calling for a blockade of Iran
>   ([2]http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.CON.RES.362:).
>
>
>   Unable to understand the resolution, I called the office of Mr.
>   Langevin -- a congressman who seems to represent AIPAC more than Rhode
>   Island. The gentleman who answered knew little or nothing about it,
>   but he promised to relay my questions to him. I sent him the following
>   questions about HCR 362 in writing:
>
>
>   How did you learn of "Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons"?
>
>
>   Why is your source more reliable than the NIE (National Intelligence
>   Estimate) and the reports of the IAEA (International Atomic Energy
>   Agency)?
>
>
>   Where in the NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) is development of
>   nuclear energy prohibited?
>
>
>   How did Hamas "illegally seize control of Gaza"? I thought Hamas was
>   elected in what international observers found to be a fair election.
>   (And isn't it Israel that illegally controls Gaza, bombing and
>   starving its residents?)
>
>
>   How do you know "Iran seeks to establish regional hegemony"? I thought
>   that the U.S. and Israel were the nations seeking to dominate the
>   region with massive military force. (In fact, your resolution ends
>   with a reference to "America's vital national security interests in
>   the Middle East.")
>
>
>   Why is it okay for Israel, India and Pakistan to have nuclear
>   capabilities, but not Iran?
>
>
>   Why are U.N. Security Council resolutions on Iran more important than
>   the far more numerous and longstanding U.N. resolutions on Israel?
>
>
>   Most important: What do you expect the consequences will be if you
>   succeed in getting George Bush to pressure on Iran by "prohibiting the
>   export to Iran of all refined petroleum products;" imposing inspection
>   requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains, and
>   cargo entering or departing Iran; and "prohibiting the international
>   movement of all Iranian officials not involved in negotiating the
>   suspension of Iran's nuclear program"?
>
>
>   How would we respond if some power tried to do these things to the
>   U.S.?
>
>
>   Do you expect the war you propose will go better than the wars we are
>   already fighting against countries much smaller than Iran?
>
>
>   Rod Driver
>
>   Richmond
>
>
>   (c) 2008 Providence Journal
>
> References
>
>   1. http://www.istockanalyst.com/
>   2. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.CON.RES.362
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