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Debra Cagan : “I hate all Iranians”

A key aide to the US Defense Secretary told British MPs, during a visit to the Pentagon, that she hates “all Iranians” and that Britain stood accused of “dismantling” the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ through its plans to withdraw troops from Basra.

Debra Cagan is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Coalition Affairs to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and one of President Bush’s key foreign policy advisers. You don’t have to think too hard to imagine what kind of “advice” she’s given Bush on what to do about Iran.

Cagan’s aggressive tone on Iran, and her declared hatred of “all Iranians”, presumably including the tens of thousands of Jews and Christians who live peacefully inside Iran, unnerved the British MPs, who now fear that BushCo. is “looking for an excuse” to go to war in the Middle East, again :

The six MPs were taken aback by the hardline approach of the Pentagon and in particular Ms Cagan, one of Mr Bush’s foreign policy advisers.
The MPs say that at one point she said: “In any case, I hate all Iranians.”

Although it was an aside, it was not out of keeping with her general demeanour.

“She seemed more keen on saying she didn’t like Iranians than that the US had no plans to attack Iran,” said one MP. “She did say there were no plans for an attack but the tone did not fit the words.”

Another MP said: “I formed the impression that some in America are looking for an excuse to attack Iran. It was very alarming.”

Tory Stuart Graham, who was on the ten-day trip, would not discuss Ms Cagan but said: “It was very sobering to hear from the horse’s mouth how the US sees the situation.”

The kind of senseless hatred against Iranians from key BushCo. officials and the NeoCon warpigs is filling American, British and Australian media.

If it’s not the clearly disturbing “Bomb Iran Now” cheer-leading from the internationally loathed ‘diplomat’ John Bolton, it’s the self-declared godfather of American neoconservatives, Norman Podhoretz advising Bush to bomb Iran before it’s too late -too late being the end of the Bush presidency – and then boasting about it to any media that will listen as he tries to flog his new hate book calling for more war on Muslims.

The calls for violent bloodshed and attacks on sovereign nations are almost solely coming from the United States when it comes to a future War On Iran. By no coincidence, Bolton and Ponderhertz are two of the biggest promoters of key anti-Iranian hate myths – that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for the destruction of the US, has denied Nazi Germany killed millions of Jews and that he wants to “wipe Israel off the map.”

NeoCons demand truth and accountability from Iran when it comes to its nuclear energy programs, but naturally they reject both measures of accuracy when it comes to their propaganda programs of poisoning the minds of Americans against the only Middle East nation that immediately held candlelight vigils for the victims of 9/11, within hours of the attacks, and quickly offered to help President Bush destroy the Al Qaeda terrorist network.

BushCo. and the NeoCons rejected Iran’s offer to bust apart Al Qaeda, and also recently rebuffed Iranian offers to help fight Al Qaeda in Iraq and restore security and peace to the war-shattered country.

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