Nevada bombing prelude to attack on Iran

“Bush administration officials claim that this massive test blast is unrelated to the effort to build a nuclear bunker-buster. But we all have seen how openly truthful this administration has been about everything else it has done. So we all need to worry.”

“Mr. Bush believes that he must do what no Democrat or Republican, if elected in the future, would have the courage to do, and that saving Iran is going to be his legacy.”

“Karl Rove is said to believe that bombing Iran will get the Republicans through the 2006 election, and President Bush would feel like a failure in God's eyes if he didn't stand up to Iran because he thinks he is doing God's work.”

by Carol Jensen
May 15, 2006

As an American whose family tree includes a branch of ancestors who were living on this land when the first Europeans stumbled ashore, I find it intolerable that the Bush Administration is going ahead with its plan to detonate 700 tons of explosives on tribal land in Nevada. This is yet another hate-based idea concocted by the Republican-controlled government.

The planned explosion is scheduled for June 2 only 90 miles from Las Vegas on a site that belongs to the Western Shoshone (Newe tribe) who own 60 million acres in Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and California, according to an 1863 United States treaty.

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