NATO rebellion against the Bush administration.. Bush angry.. US
requests NATO defend Turkey, as Turkey plans to attack Iraq, but
Germany and France say no.. Rumsfeld calls veto a mistake.. Powell says
NATO avoiding obligations.. Germany says supporting Turkey would send
the wrong signal.. Iraq ok's US U-2 flights.. German and France plan
alternative proposal/s.. Israel says US invasion of Iraq should
immediately followed by a US invasion of Iran.. Israel locks down the
West Bank and Gaza.. more on Colin Powell's plagerism.. German Foreign
Minister, Joschka Fischer, this month's president of the UN Security
Council.. now w Andreas Zumach , a reporter with the German paper, Die
Tageszeitung..
about the confrontation between Fisher and Rumsfeld.. at the recent
39th annual ^^^^ Security Conference in Europe.. Rumsfeld speech, tried
to be a little more polite than last week when he compared Germany to
Cuba and Libya.. and called Germany and France 'Old Europe'.. called
the UN an outdated organization.. then Fisher took the stage, and very
openly put all the reasons against the war.. it would make the
terrorism problem worse, would inflame the Middle East.. said the US
had no strategy, no plan.. said, "we've learned [from the mistakes of
WWII] that we have to have our own opinions and shouldn't just follow
some leader for the sake of following." Rumsfeld did not respond
immediately.. but responded later to reporters.. what made him very
angry, that Rumsfeld heard from the news about the robust Blue
Helmets.. he understood that this initiative could take the air out of
Bush's war plans.. Dennis: Rumsfeld said
the German government should support the war so that the people's
opinion would 'come around'.. Fisher told Rumsfeld that Democracy works
the other way around.. Cornbluth made the claim that the whole US
population is behind Bush.. I had to correct that.. more about the
'Blue Helmet' proposal.. German Der Speigle magazine broke the story
Saturday.. in addition to tripling the number of weapons inspectors,
there should be many Blue Helmets to protect them.. and increased
surveillance from the air.. and declare all of Iraq a no fly zone.. but
the French said no no, no such plan.. a lot of confusion over the
weekend.. maybe as early as Friday they could put it before the
Security Council.. the reaction of the Bush administraion came out
strong against it.. the US Senators visiting Germany, Loserman, er..
Lieberman, and McCain came out against it.. about the request to NATO
to support Turkey in case the US invades Iraq.. NATO decisions require
consensus.. Germany, France, Belgium, put in the veto.. Turkey is
claiming that their territory is being threatened.. the first time in
NATO history.. what are the legitimate security concerns of Turkey?..
(discussion).. if there is an attack on Iraq without UN ok, this is a
violation of international law, and Iraq would have the right of
self-defence under NATO rules.. absolutely overexaggerated.. in 1991
when the capabilities of Iraq military were much greater than today, no
even one Iraq airplane made it over its border.. today, I doubt that
there is even one Iraqi fighter jet available.. and Iraq has now only
20 Skud missiles compared to over a 1000 in 1991.. there is no support
for this war in Germany.. 97% opposed with or without UN support.. 89%
opposed in France.. 
Moshiri
grew up in a literary family in Tehran. She worked as a playwright and
fiction writer in Iran, before fleeing the country in 1983 after her
play was banned and its director and cast arrested.. She is author of The
Bathhouse [Cody's
Online] and At The Wall
Of The Almighty [Cody's
Online]..
she refused to sign an agreement to obey the Ayatollay, she escaped
Tehran to India and eventually to Houstson.. they would have arrested
me and executed me.. in September 1983, 10,000 intellectuals executed..
very gradually the fundamentalist Moslems took power.. Khomeni brought
from Paris.. after two three years he turned to the right and started
to arrest 'non-believers'.. they took us to sign these forms, to
promise to follow the rules.. I had to escape, they would have taken my
baby 2 year old to prison with me.. one by one, my friends were
arrested.. my play, they arrested the director and the actors, sealed
the place.. I went underground.. a harmless play, about two women, a
landlord and a maid.. the maid revolts.. underground simply means
disappearing.. sleeping with relatives who.. my father paid a lot of
money to drug smugglers to take it across the border.. 3 in the morning
we walked through a minefield.. half and hour we were in Afghanistan..
to Kabul, the Communist government.. I got a job in the university,
four years.. but Kabul surrounded by Mujahadeen supported by the US
government, trained in Pakistan.. finally the Red Cross gave me a
passport.. shortly after we escaped to the US, the Communists were
murdered by the Mujahadeen.. like in Iran a bloody coup in 1952,
brought the young Shah back from France.. the previous leader had 99%
vote of the people.. wanted to nationalize oil.. that's why the
fundamentalism eventually came to power.. Mossad agents taught Iranian
torturers.. history repeating itself.. about the friends I lost.. many
many friends.. my drama professor died under torture.. a sociology
professor executed.. a 19 year old aunt student killed.. they would put
the women in burlap sacks and machine gun them.. I had nightmares.. or
they would hang them, anytime of the day, inside the prison.. what was
the world saying while this was happening?.. where were all the
humanitarians then?.. Saddam is a dictator, no doubt.. but who saved
the Chileans from Pinochet?.. Dennis: it sure wasn't Henry Kissinger..
please read something?.. At The Wall
Of The Almighty [Cody's
Online], under severe torture, 
Laura
Bush recently cancelled a White House poetry reading because she felt
it was wrong to 'mix politics and poetry'.. the rest of the world is
laughing at the U.S... a political prisoner has forgotten his name, but
remembers his past in
fragments, and imagines his twin sister may be in prison, givies him
strenght, but is a torment for him, and he imagines he can save her..
(she reads a passage) excerpt: "I know that I'm in the hallways of
El-Deen, the central prison of the Holy Republic, and I know that this
guard is taking me from my solitary confinement - the Black Box - to
cell number four, cell of the Unbreakables. But this is all I know..."
Dennis:Farnoosh:Dennis: the poetry reading was going to be about Walt
Whitman, and Langston Hughes.. could you read another piece?..
Farnoosh:
at this point he is remembering he left his home to go to a (mythical)
city of Roz.. there he goes to a monument of a poet.. for Iranians
poets are like Gods.. like Rumi.. (she reads).. [amazing literature,
please do yourself and favor and listen to the audio of this segment]..
Farnoosh:My father's name was Mansoor and
he was proud of his name, this is one story he told me, God is
Everywhere, in all the elements of nature and not up there in the sky..