MORE SIGNS OF IMMINENT ATTACK? GENERAL ELECTRIC LEAVING IRAN

[poe]

First it was Halliburton, now General Electric. Companies are closing down business operations in Iran. “We’re seeing a turnaround by a number of U.S. companies operating in Iran,” Dan Katz, chief counsel to U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., told the Associated Press. Last year Lautenberg accused U.S. corporations of collecting “blood money” by doing business with “countries the United States says sponsors terrorism and said he would push for legislation to stop it.” Lautenberg said, “When American companies do business with Iran they are helping the Iranians create revenue that is funneled to terrorists.”

Suddenly, and remarkably, GE has grown a conscience.
General Electric is responsible for the murder of thousands, possibly millions of people, since it is “one of the world’s top three producers of jet engines, supplying Boeing, Lockheed Martin and other military aircraft makers for the powering of airplanes and helicopters,” explains CorpWatch. In fact, GE is one of the worst corporations in the world, guilty of various crimes, including: designing faulty nuclear power plants; conducting radiation experiments on humans; intentionally releasing large amounts of radiation into the air from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in order to see the distance it would travel; poisoning its workers at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in Schenectady, New York with radiation and asbestos; attempting to overturn the US Superfund Law of 1980.
Not surprisingly, GE has paid big bucks to pocket Congress critters on both sides of the aisle. “GE spent more than $31 million in 2001 and 2002 lobbying lawmakers; in 2000 it spent $16 million. Reigning CEO Jack Welch had enormous influence and was consistently ranked CEO of the Year by the slavish business press; he was major Republican donor as well. GE director Sam Nunn was senator for Georgia for 27 years, and also sits on the boards of ChevronTexaco. GE’s Senior Vice President and General Counsel and Secretary, Benjamin W. Heineman, used to work for the US government’s Department of Health, Education and Welfare. General Electric gave $221,350 to political campaigns in the 2002 election cycle, with 40 percent going to Democrats and 60 percent to Republicans.”

“Because of uncertain conditions related to Iran, including concerns about meeting future customer commitments, we will not accept any new orders for business in Iran effective Feb. 1,” said Gary Sheffer, a GE spokesman.
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[NGU]

1. What is this country coming to?

Will it ever end?

[mzmolly]

2. I remember when the media were drumming up support for the War

and MSNBC "advertised" a fighter jet made by GE. It was a disgusting display.

I have decided to get a lobotomy so that I remain in the dark as it's too depressing to have a brain. Hmmmm, either that or I could convert to Republicanism?

[SmokingJacket]

8. Wouldn't it be a nice to be all rah-rah for a change?

To be able to look at the Resident without wanting to vomit?

To feel actual pride in your country's actions?

Sheesh. Pipe dreams!!

[mzmolly]

14. Indeed it would.

How much does the Republican Party pay for one soul anyhow?

:(

[DemonFighterLives]

9. You almost made the lobotomy appealing

Don't go republicanism, no matter what. I had the same idea. It is too hard to fight fascism and I might as well knucle under. Then I thought again.
GE and Haliburton are moving out, that means the air campaign in not far behind and GE and Halibuton reaping huge profits. :freak:

[Windy]

3. War in Iran is imminent.

Have you seen the latest PNAC position paper calling for more troops? The word "draft" is not directly mentioned, but it is implied by the number of troops they are calling for. As the administration is in bed with the PNAC, its just a matter of time.

[FreedomAngel82]

5. Yep

and from what I'm hearing the military recruitment numbers are really low. Doy.

[Windy]

6. Well, they aren't getting my son....

He's 17 years old.

Gee, I wonder what will happen when the draft is instituted. I wonder how many righties and fundies will be willing to send their sons and daughters? Will they still blindly support the war? My guess is no...

[DemonFighterLives]

10. The righties will be kindly excused

I'm sure they have much more important things to do, like running the empire.

[poe]

11. Spring is near

Se rebeller est juste, désobéir est un devoir, agir est nécessaire !

[adigal]

24. My kids are still young

but a LOT of my friends who support Bush have boys 18 to 25. Yep, I tell them, your vote for Bushie will get your son in camoflauge.

[DistantWind88]

21. How imminent?

Within the next few months? A year?

[Ripley]

30. Why do you always want to argue about when it will happen.

If you are so sure there will never be a draft, how can you explain the Chimpmonkey's obvious desire to force Syria and Iran into Democracies?

Will he just nuke them? That wouldn't take a draft.

[davidwparker]

4. No lie there. When Halliburon and GE leave -- like rats --

you know its about to happen. I saw this earlier on another site and that was my thought.

Now that Dean will be the chair, I'm going to change my tags to the line in Revelation, which if this is the end of the age, you can only interpret as God's judgment coming down on the U.S. Truly, we are oppressors.

[Rex]

7. Corporatism

Ike warned us about the military industrial complex, looks like it teamed up with wall street.

[Melynn]

12. They just told you what is going to happen

"Because of uncertain conditions related to Iran" GE won't be accepting any new orders from Iran. And just what are those uncertain conditions? In so far as I know, nothing has changed in Iran......yet.

[Karenina]

19. The more we do to them

the less they believe we are doing it.

Attribution? ;-)

[mockingbich]

13. Thanks for this post

This is why I love DU - I'd never read this in the MSM or hear it on conservative radio

When you see the big money guys bailing...you know war is for real

[Al-CIAda]

15. Who will PNAC hit first?

The U$ to start a draft, or Iran to start the war?

[RockStar]

16. Before we attack Iran PREPARE for the NEXT 911 on USA soil so we can blame

the iranians. I thinks its san francisco

[natrat]

17. fuck that

whta town do you live in? ok thats where i think its going down

[RockStar]

18. It makes sense it would be san francisco

I love san francisco but hear me out. San Francisco is a major trade port. Also san francisco has alot of FOREIGN TOURIST. Think about if bush nuke san francisco and thousands of chinese killed,japanes etc. can you image the support he would get from those country..Its a sick plot but trust me those fuckers are crazy.

[mopaul]

20. Hey Israel, there's your cue..........

we'll turn our heads for a few minutes so we don't actually see it.

[Vinca]

22. It's like the canary in the coal mine.

We're in big, big trouble and I don't know how we can get this mad man out of office before it happens.

[PaulaFarrell]

23. they're definitely preparing the way

New York, NY, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- The U.S. Air Force is playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse with Iran's ayatollahs, flying American combat aircraft into Iranian airspace in an attempt to lure Tehran into turning on air defense radars, thus allowing U.S. pilots to grid the system for use in future targeting data, administration officials said.

We have to know which targets to attack and how to attack them," said one, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The flights, which have been going on for weeks, are being launched from sites in Afghanistan and Iraq and are part of Bush administration attempts collect badly needed intelligence on Iran's possible nuclear weapons development sites, these sources said, speaking on condition of strict anonymity.

"These Iranian air defense positions are not just being observed, they're being 'templated,'" an administration official said, explaining that the flights are part of a U.S. effort to develop "an electronic order of battle for Iran" in case of actual conflict.

<snip>
He also made clear that that this entails "advance, detailed knowledge of the enemy's electronic order of battle and careful preplanning."




http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20050126-085709-3876r.htm

[Toots]

25. War is great business for GE....They deal with both sides

Kind of like the Bush*'s. It is all about money & power.

[rocktivity]

26. We're not invading--we have Condi's word for it!

From Comcast online:
LONDON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday a U.S. attack on Iran "is simply not on the agenda at this point," despite the United States' continued criticism of Iran's human rights record and suspected nuclear weapons ambitions.

Would SHE lie to us? They couldn't have printed this if weren't true, so stop saying that!

:headbang:
rocknation

[tyedyeto]

31. She would NEVER lie to us......

so stop impugning her integrity. <sarcasm>

Of course, 'at this point' can change in milliseconds. Maybe 'on the agenda - off the agenda' depending on who she's talking to?

[ohio_liberal]

27. WTF....

...is the US going to attack Iran with? Poorly trained conscripts? We sure as fuck don't have an army ready to take on another country, especially one that can actually fight back effectively.

[txaslftist]

29. Obviously you're one of the poor uninformed...

who live in the "reality based community".

You should be reading scripture more, not listening the librul media.

[txaslftist]

28. We won't invade Iran...

We're prepping the way for "surgical air strikes" from our bases in Iraq and Afghanistan on Iran's "nukular facilities". When the Iranians respond to the airstrikes by lobbing shells into Iraq (how could they not do this and maintain face among the community of Middle-Eastern nations), we will respond in kind, then it will escalate into the ground war.

But we won't be invading, see. We'll be "defending the newly liberated nation of Iraq" from those evildoers in that wicked theocratic Empire who wish to destroy her self-determination and impose Islamic fascism.

You have to get used to the spin.