Michael Schauer, Former CIA, on Bin Laden File Assignment

I listened to Michael Schauer, author of Osama bin Laden, on Booknotes, and having been married to a Moslem for 24 years, I thought "at last someone with courage is speaking out." He was saying things our controlled media won't allow knowledgeable Americans to say. To me, the real terrorists are in Congress, the media, and the military, enriching themselves by aiding and abetting our corporate criminals by committing crimes against humanity.The author gave a substantive report on what is really happening in our Middle East interventions. Unfortunately, I can list only a few points, in the interest of brevity.

1.      If Congress cannot find a backbone, it must be purged in the coming election.

2.      Nonintervention does not mean 'isolating' ourselves; we have always traded, educated, etc.

3.      We have completely surrounded Iran, a Shiite country, with U.S. military bases in Sunni countries.

4.      To portray Islamists, whether Sunni or Shia, as a limited band of nihilistic fanatics, ready to kill widely and indiscriminately for the pure joy of murdering, and ready to sacrifice their lives is farcical.

5.      Iran's hostage-taking in 1979 has created a hatred for Iran, exploited by politicians, academic journalists and pro Israel organizations. In all of history there has not been a non-threat like Iran that has been more feared by Americans.

6.      If we had wanted to stop Iran from building a nuclear weapon, we could have told our European allies to stop selling Iran the necessary technology in the early 1990s.

7.      Neither we nor Israel has had contact with Iran for 20 years, except for threatening regime change and preemptive strikes.

8.      Most recently Iran has seen more than 400 U.S. Congressmen and Senators turn on their own president in a Washington Speech in 2010, by standing and cheering Benjamin Netanyahu calling for war on Iran. Truth is, Israel has a large, multifaceted, unaccounted-for arsenal of WMDs, and would surely use it.

9.      Iran could not strike America, but America could incinerate Iran.

Western governments encourage their nice, safe, naive college students to twitter young Iranians to urge a political revolution, not caring about how many young Iranians would die in the streets.However, because of 34 years of criminal negligence by the U.S. executive and legislative branches in the area of border control and domestic security, Iran and its Lebanese-Hezbollah surrogates have acquired a large, clandestine infras tructure in the continental U.S., if America or Israel strikes Iran.