My sister-in-Law sent this aroung. As I said, true enough to be scary.


The Case for Regime Change

NEW YORK - Making the case for United Nations intervention against
the United

States, Iranian President Mohammad Khatami told the organization
yesterday
that military action will be "unavoidable" unless the U.S. agrees to
destroy
its weapons of mass destruction.

In a much-anticipated speech to a special session of the U.N. General
Assembly held in Brussels, Khatami launched a blistering attack
against
American leader George W. Bush, accusing him of defying U.N.
resolutions
and using his country's wealth to line the pockets of wealthy cronies at
a
time when the people of his country make do without such basic social
programs as national health insurance.

"Nearly two years ago, the civilized world watched as this evil and
corrupt
dictator subverted the world's oldest representative democracy in an
illegal coup d'Thetatat," said Khatami. "Since then the Bush regime
has
continued America's systematic repression of ethnic and religious
minorities and threatened international peace and security throughout
the
world. Thousands of political opponents and ordinary citizens have
been
subjected to arbitrary arrest and imprisonment. Basic civil rights have
been violated. This rogue state has flouted the international community
on
legal, economic and environmental issues. It has even ignored the
Geneva
Conventions on the
treatment of prisoners of war by denying that its illegal invasion of
Afghanistan--which has had a destabilizing influence throughout
Central
Asia--was a war at all."

Khatami said the U.S. possesses the world's largest arsenal of
nuclear
weapons, weapons "that, when first developed, were used
immediately to kill
half a million innocent civilians just months after acquiring them. No
nation that has committed nuclear genocide can be entrusted with
weapons of
mass destruction."

"Bush has invaded Afghanistan and is now threatening Iraq. We cannot
stand
by and do nothing while danger gathers. We can't allow for this tyrant to
strike first. We have an obligation to act pre-emptively to protect the
world from this evildoer," Khatami said.

As delegates punctuated his words with bursts of applause, Khatami
noted
that U.S. intelligence agencies had helped establish and fund the
world's
most virulent terrorist organizations, including Al Qaeda, and the
Taliban
regime that harbored them. "The U.S. created the Islamist extremists
who
attacked its people on September 11, 2001," he stated, "and Bush's
illegitimate junta cynically exploited those attacks to repress political
dissidents, make sweetheart deals with politically connected
corporations
and revive 19th century-style colonial imperialism."

Khatami asked the U.N. to set a deadline for Bush to step down in
favor of
president-in-exile Al Gore, the legitimate winner of the 2000 election,
the
results of which were subverted through widespread voting
irregularities
and intimidation. "We favor not regime change, but rather restoration
and
liberation," he said. In addition, Khatami said, the U.S. must dismantle
its weapons of mass destruction, guarantee basic human rights to all
citizens and agree to abide by international law or "face the
consequences." Most observers agree that those "consequences"
would likely
include a prolonged bombing campaign targeting major U.S. cities and
military installations, followed by a ground invasion led by European
forces. "Civilian casualties would likely be substantial," said a French
military analyst. "But the American people must be liberated from
tyranny."

Khatami's charges, which were detailed in a dossier prepared by
French
President Jacques Chirac, were dismissed by a representative of the
American strongman as "lies, half-truths and misguided beliefs,
motivated
by the desire to control a country with oil, natural gas and other
natural
resources." National Security Minister Condoleezza Rice denied that
the
U.S. maintains weapons of mass destruction and invited U.N.
inspectors to
visit Washington to "see for themselves that our weapons are
designed only
to keep the peace, subject of course to full respect for American
sovereignty."

The U.N. is expected to reject any conditions for or restrictions on arms
inspections. Experts believe that the liberation of the United States
will
require a large ground force of European and other international
troops,
followed by a massive rebuilding program costing billions of euros.
"Even
before Bush, the American political system was a shambles," said
Prof.
Salvatore Deluna of the University of Madrid. "Their single-party
plutocracy
will have to be reshaped into true parliamentary-style democracy.
Moreover,
the economy will have to be retooled from its current military
dictatorship
model--in which a third of the federal budget goes to arms, and taxes
are
paid almost exclusively by the working class--to one in which basic
human
needs such as education and poverty are addressed. Their
infrastructure is a
mess; they don't even have a national passenger train system. Fixing a
failed

state of this size will require many years."