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TONIGHT ON THE TERRORDOME: Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh on Iraq, Iran, Israel and the United States

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6 pm Mountain Time CJSR FM-88.5 Edmonton cjsr.com worldwide The United States has been called the last remaining sup erpower, the hyperpower, the unipower, and even the global unibomber. As the uncontested supreme military power on the planet, the United States engages in policies that lead to widespread instability and long-term disaster for millions, in the pursuit of massive short-term corporate profits and temporary strategic advantage. Such a reality is obvious in US Middle Eastern policy. Despite years of dip lomatic overture from the government of Iran under its then-reformist president Mohammed Hatami, including a stated desire to rout Al-Qaeda, the White House refused to come to the table. That undermining of Hatami helped usher in the current hardline president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, providing a further pretext for an attack on Iran . Such an attack is no more likely to bring peace, stability, democracy or prosperity to the people of the region than has the illegal US invas...