Foreign countries can get by without U.S. help

Editor,

I'm looking forward to President Bush's war with Iran. I'm looking forward to paying $5 a gallon for gas. I'm looking forward to generation 9/11 being drafted. If Iran is meddling in Iraq, then what do you call what the U.S. is doing in Iraq?

Maybe the best way to stop the blowback of terrorist tactics would be to stop meddling in other countries. All I remember of the Iranian hostage crisis was that Saturday-morning cartoons would be pre-empted for breaking news coverage.

Most Americans hate Iran for taking 100 hostages in the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, but they have no idea that the U.S. overthrew a democratically elected government in Iran in 1953 and replaced it with a brutal tyrant. After the blowback of 1979, the U.S. put its support behind Saddam Hussein, even supplying him with weapons of mass destruction for Iraq's horrific war with Iran.

I don't know if people are just too busy working, or if they just don't care. Most Americans don't know that Iran signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which gives it the right to enrich uranium. Most Americans don't know that our ally Israel has not signed this treaty and actually has nuclear weapons that we gave it.

Day after day, the American people are being prepared for war. The Israeli government, the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs have too much influence on our government. I believe we are being lied to on a monstrous scale about this war on terror.

Brian Fejer

UNM alumnus