Hillary emails.

I suppose Mr. Snowden didn't have them, huh? Everyone should be so lucky. And that is all I have to say about that. It is political fodder.

18 U.S. Code § 2511 - Interception and disclosure of wire, oral, or electronic communications prohibited (click here)

Whether Republicans like it or not, this is the law that governed Former Secretary Clinton's COMMUNICATIONS. 

President Obama was the first President that communicated from a personal Blackberry. Enough. 

Okay, who actually believes (click here for hint) Former Secretary of State and Former US Senator from New York and Former First Lady Hillary Clinton uses Gmail or Yahoo? 

How many women in the world can move into the Secretary of State office and say, "Oh, he's already on my email list, though."

If this is why the Republicans continuously call for another Benghazi investigation, they have wasted taxpayer's money and have been in office far too long, while using the federal House for political purposes.

Tikrit, huh?

Is Saddam's burial plot still intact? He was head honcho to the Ba'athists. I thought maybe they made a temple to him. No?

And there is an Iranian General leading the Shi'ite militias? Really? How cool is that, huh?

Hey, he is actually making a difference in the defensive force for the Shi'ites. I think that is interesting.

That makes the Shi'ites interested in defending Iraq with it's borders intact. That is something to be grateful for. 

These folks are ruled by their religious devotions. I am not surprised they listen to similar voices in battle. 

Inadvertently involving Iran. Hm. No, I think Iran knows there is a war next door. If it was a USA border and there was a war next door, we would be involved absolutely. The fact there are Iranian Generals leading the Shia militias sort of gives it away.

This is a depiction of "The Shia Crescent." There are all sorts assessments of the crescent. Some are narrower and slightly different, but, this one is the most generous in area of their presence. 

The Shia Crescent is real. There are real human beings affiliated with that region. It spans many countries, but, it is considered to be accurate to the distribution of Shi'ites in the region.

These people have a right to live. They have a right to defend their countries. They have a right to their religion and all that means. 

Having Iranian Generals leading Iraqi Shia militias on the battlefield along with others such as the Kurds and other Sunni tribes is exactly what the Iraqi Constitution calls for. It calls for a joint military force. I am sure it doesn't include Iraqi Generals, but, there is a very good chance Baghdad asked Iran to help no differently than it asked the USA. 

This reminds me of a moment of truth after the USA military entered Afghanistan. Karzai was made President and it was about six months or so of occupation of that country that President Karzai wanted a meeting between Iranian leaders and USA leaders. It could have been done at lower levels of diplomacy, but, the Bush administration dismissed the request. 

This map shows the very long border Iran and Afghanistan share. There is no earthquake that is going to change that. President Karzai regarded his neighbor with esteem no different than he regarded the USA. 

The USA is going to have to come to terms with the fact this region of the world brings the USA face to face with convenient political enemies. The leaders of Iraq are not going to snub Iran. To that truth is lent the idea 'they are trying to defend their country as if brothers the best way they can.'

Will Iranian Generals turn their guns on Kurds and Sunnis as soon as the battle is finished? I would be extremely surprised if that ever happened. I don't think the Iraqi Shia militias have a mysterious agenda. That agenda is only alive in political dogma of The West. 

The leaders of these countries have little use for Western politics. Their people are under siege and they are defending their lands. That is what The West asked of them for nearly ten years. They are doing exactly that. If the method of which they are carrying out that responsibility is offensive to the sensibilities of The West, well that is too bad. 

The best chance of these lands being in the hands of people that love it and call it home is for those same people to defend it. Those militias are far more worried about surviving the day, carrying out the directives of their leadership, protecting their wives and children than carrying out a faux agenda drafted by John McCain. 

Personally, I am tired and disgusted with the Neocon agenda in the USA. They are hateful and have far too many issues with control of the Middle East. These people have to have their own way of living. They are not going to fit into a mold prescribed by the USA military. If that was the idea of the invasion into Iraq, then everyone was arrogant and had it completely wrong. The USA has no control over nations of people that are left to defend their lands. 

It is completely obvious the years of training that went into the Iraqis in the hands of The West was a waste of time, treasure and American soldiers. They don't identify with American trainers unless they have consent by their own leaders to achieve the status of soldier. That is the truth of the matter. 

The slaughter of human beings by Daesh has been unbelievable. They are barbarians. They know no god besides themselves. The death is real and those nations of people are right there expecting their militias and what organized military exists to protect them today and into the future.

If the Iraqi military comes together with leadership that speaks the language better than any American, with religious devotion expressed by their Holy Men, then so be it. Enough people have died that no others should die when their militias are capable of ending the killing. The West has no place here if they are going to put their politics ahead of human life. It is up to the people to decide to accept each other and set aside differences to find peace and harmony. I am hopeful that will occur when all the battles are won and the soldiers return home safely.

The Sunnis, Kurds and Shi'ites are experiencing their own miracle. They are finding they can fight a common foe while worshiping the God of their upbringing. It is nothing short of a small miracle and I hope peace in the region is realized as a result.

The USA is responsible for all of Russia's bad news?

President Putin stated it was the USA's CIA that assassinated Boris Nemtsov? Really? Wow. I don't think so.

I might point out that President Putin is blaming everything on the USA. He even blamed the downing of the jet shot down by the Ukrainian rebels on the USA. That was a blatant lie.

I recently viewed a short documentary on the people of East Ukraine. It was being conducted during the ceasefire. Those people believed every word in propaganda they were told. They bought right into any words coming from Putin. If there was propaganda related to Kiev, it was recanted over and over.

If President Putin can state conclusively that the USA's CIA assassinated Mr. Nemtsov right in the shadow of the Kremlin, he needs to ask for extradition of those involved. The USA is known to extradite, but, Russia isn't. So, President Putin may have forgotten the USA might be open to bringing murderers to justice.

That is an odd comment by President Putin because the assassination happened right there in Red Square. The USA's CIA has set up shop in Red Square unknown to the Kremlin. Wow. Damn, their good.

Don't worry about the chemistry, just enjoy it.

March 1, 2015

Drinking three cups (click here) of tea a day can cut the risk of diabetes, says new research.

Two studies show that black tea has a glucose-lowering effect that could help prevent and manage type 2 diabetes, which affects 2.3 million Britons.

Experts say the findings suggest around three cups a day might help the body control blood sugar levels more effectively.

In the studies US and Japanese scientists investigated extracts from black tea in the laboratory.
They discovered the action of natural ingredients in black tea could lead to reductions in blood sugar....

I've been thinking about this nudity thing with Google in regards to Blogger. I think I'll have to engage one of my other blogs in order to go forward if this is banded from public viewing. The reason is not for myself, but, for others. I would be content to blog and never have a person read it or act on it. They are my thoughts and 'the read-write' method helps putting thoughts to words.

However.

This blog has garnered attention I didn't expect. It is nice to be included in the ideas in our great democracy. I can't ignore that and expect others to cope with Google's infringement. 

I know there are people that look for me, if for no other reason but to be sure both they and I are okay while addressing very weighty issues. I look for them as well. I had no idea my blog would bring such people to the site. It was to have a humble message that we are in trouble on Earth because of our extravagance of fossil fuels and complete irreverence to the gift of life provided by a benevolent planet. The blog became more and that's okay. 

So. If this blog ever goes into shadows rather than a part of a public forum I will be addressing the same issues on a different blog here on Blogger. If people want to explore the archives of this blog I'll be happy to provide access, that is not in question.

I don't want people signing in. My followers are important in their anonymity. For those that cannot sign in because it would be a record of their visits to particular content, I respect that. 

Until later...

Nina and her attorney are absolutely correct.

Her lingering symptoms is at the very least anxiety, but, more likely is also PTSD. It not unusual to have more than one psychological diagnosis after severe trauma. 

She was facing down death and that is about as severe as trauma gets. Additionally, this occurred at her place of work where she believed she was in control of her safety within her practice. 

This trauma in her life directly attacked everything she believed about her life and safety. She can't help the fact she has become paranoid and fearful. It was sudden, very real and completely out of the blue. 

Her employer didn't have at hand the type of equipment she needed in her practice. That is a company policy. There were other staff exposed unwittingly. This was not a unique circumstance, this could have been far more ranging. The invasion of authority was everywhere. Her privacy was gone, her apartment and even her pet dog had authorities take control of them. That is really scarey, especially in Texas where the culture brags about liberty and freedom and self-sufficiency. 

She is probably damaged for life. She did not volunteer for a dangerous job in Africa. Her employer is not blameless. The patient involved died because of the mistakes of her employer. She thought she was going to be next. 

A Texas court could throw it all out and say too bad, she is alive and the virus was never a problem for them before. That is what is so cruel about the states in this country that have scaled back more and more tort laws that protect citizens from exploitation by their employers. 

The hospital system should have an infection control office where RISK MANAGEMENT includes deadly disease that has not yet visited their patient population. There should have been a protocol. There were hospitals prepared to carry out this type of exposure. 

There is some assessment that needs to be carried out to determine if the working environment was well staffed. If the staffing ratios were poor the staff was stressed and pushing their boundaries to get the work done. I am confident there was sufficient pressure from her employer to deliver a high  productive rate in treating patients. 

If a hospital system is to be responsible for patients they have to adequately staff the care of those patients AND that staff should not be faced with 'burn out' either. In  this case there is not only burn out of a well qualified nurse, but, trauma that has scared her for life. 

I wish her well and I am sure her celebrity status is a problem for her as well. 
The attention at the center of an emergency in the USA was nothing she planned for or pursued.

I wish her well.

Ebola nurse Nina Pham with her dog Bentley at a Dallas park. Pham filed a lawsuit Monday against Texas Health Resources, which owns Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas, alleging that lack of training and lack of proper protection caused her to get Ebola. She also alleges that THR invaded her privacy by releasing information to the public about her medical condition, including by shooting a video of her in her hospital bed.

March 2, 2015
By Jennifer Emily

Nurse Nina Pham, (click here) who contracted Ebola while caring for a patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, filed a lawsuit Monday in Dallas County against the hospital’s parent company, Texas Health Resources.

 The lawsuit alleges that while she became the American face of the fight against the disease, the hospital’s lack of training and proper equipment and violations of her privacy made her “a symbol of corporate neglect — a casualty of a hospital system’s failure to prepare for a known and impending medical crisis.”...

I think the speech at AIPAC by Prime Minister Netanyahu was very calculated. It was also not factually correct.

I will not tear the speech apart. He has the right to speech in whatever manner he believes most appropriate. He is always welcome to speak frankly to the USA or to disguise his priorities.

He was correct that Americans embrace Israel as family. Their pain is our pain and that is perfectly obvious.

A culture of fear and hate is not the answer for any country.

March 1, 2015

Katya Golubkova and Alexander Winning

Thousands of Russians (click here) marched through central Moscow on Sunday, carrying banners declaring “I am not afraid” and chanting “Russia without Putin” in memory of murdered Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov.

Families, the old and young walked slowly, with many holding portraits of the opposition politician and former deputy prime minister who was shot dead while walking home from a restaurant in central Moscow on Friday night.

...“If we can stop the campaign of hate that’s being directed at the opposition, then we have a chance to change Russia. If not, then we face the prospect of mass civil conflict,” Gennady Gudkov, an opposition leader, told Reuters....

I believe those that marched have the best idea for Russia's future. Living with hate of each other is not cohesive to sovereignty or domestic peace. Hate interrupts economic growth and holds hostage innocent people to their participation in the benefits of society as in education or social interaction. Hate of each other cannot be Russia's future. Mutual respect and inclusiveness will be rewarding in surprising ways such as domestic peace and happiness. 

I look forward to the government bringing the murderer of Boris Nemtsov to trial. It will be a good beginning to remove the sigma of hate as equity in justice will be realized. 

Russia cannot resolve back to silence, it is not the future of generations. 

The United States is still identifying hate within it's society as an ongoing realization hate can be passed on from one generation to the next for political purposes. It is a continuing process and Russia should take on the challenge.

People have to make choices sometimes.

March 1, 2015
By Sarah Michael

The student skydiver (click here for video and article)  who suffered a seizure while free-falling at 2743 m (9000 ft) was an epilepsy sufferer who believed he had his condition under control. 

Incredible footage shows the terrifying moment Christopher Jones, 22, had an epileptic seizure while free-falling at 2743 m (9000 ft).

Mr Jones, from Perth, suffered the near-death experience while trying to do a left-hand turn in mid-air and was saved by his fast-acting sky diving instructor who opened his parachute with seconds to spare....

Christopher Jones and his family are lucky people because the student sky diver has a Master Jump Master prepared for the worst. The idea any future jumps by Mr. Jones would have the same result is unrealistic.

Sometimes people have to measure their ability to carry out an ambition. Bring prudent about personal safety impacts more than oneself so much as the footprint a person has in other's lives. The picture above could have been very different. 

We can call upon the profession to rule making in regard to a person's safety, but, the Jump Master providing the lessons could have denied Mr. Jones his ambitions. I would surprised if a health certificate was not required before lessons could begin. If there was no doctor's certificate then the profession and the state government needs to develop standards for high risk activities.

"Morning Papers" 

The Rooster

"Okeydoke"

This is a Crested Polish Rooster.

Police killed another unarmed homeless man. This time in Los Angeles. They killed him for their need of control. If he couldn't be controlled immediately he is then a dead man. 

The man's name was "Africa." He was a threat to no one, except, a police officers demand for him to lie still. Since he wouldn't lie still the officers made him lie still in a barrage of bullets.

March 2, 2015
By Gale Holland

Los Angeles: In a dramatic confrontation caught on video, (click here) Los Angeles police have shot and killed a homeless man.
A video of the incident posted on Facebook on Sunday shows a group of officers getting into a scuffle with a man standing on a sidewalk littered with tents and other debris.
During the struggle, one officer drops his nightstick, which is picked up by a woman on the street. Two officers handcuff the woman.
The man continues to scuffle with four of the officers, even after he is wrestled to the ground. One of the officers is heard saying "Drop the gun. Drop the gun."
Then, at least one of the officers opens fire on the man, who remained on the ground with at least two officers near him.
Five gunshots are heard on the recording....

"Good Night, Moon"

Waxing Gibbous that is nearing a Full Moon

88.7 percent lit

11.5 day old Moon


March 1, 2015
By Johnny Horne

If you gaze moonward (click here) Monday evening (if skies are clear) you'll notice a bright object to the left of the moon.
It's the planet Jupiter.
Even though its almost a half billion miles away and about 4 1/2 times the distance from the sun than Earth is, the giant planet reflects enough sunlight to appear very bright in our evening skies....

There is some talk lately about the methane environment of the moon named TItan. Evidently, there is evidence.

I got to the end of the blog at 11:30 PM, my last composition entry for this weekly dialogue and realized I had timed this out of the 15 minute frame. So, I retimed everything from 9:15 PM forward

The weather thing, "Sweater Girl," wasn't suppose to lead to Iran Contra, but, I could not ignore that comment today. What it was suppose to lead to was an accounting of the deaths caused by the storms now crossing the USA due to global warming. You might remember the glibness of Senator Inhofe on the floor of the Senate this past week. I don't know if he was simply attempting to create a diversion to the facts or just obtuse to the reality of the deaths now occurring in the USA.

February 16, 2015

Winter Storm Neptune (click here) thrashed Northeast on Sunday with heavy snow, high winds and dangerously cold temperatures. At least six deaths have been blamed on the storm. Here's the latest:...

I think The Weather Channel does an incredible job with the weather and assisting people to prepare for the worst. I also believe the local forecasters are heores. I don't know what the people of this country would do without them. They are my heroes. They want to be as perfect as they can be to prevent peril and deaths to Americans.

March 2, 2015
0315 gmt
The Weather Channel's Current Temperature Map

There is another storm beginning from the southwest that will proceed to the east coast. Rain and snow will result.

Below is the hemispheric water vapor satellite. It is dense with water vapor. But, the most worrisome evidence is the nearly complete lack of the ITCZ (Intertropical Convergence Zone). All that equatorial water vapor is now spread across the planet in an attempt for Earth to cool itself. 

March 2, 2015
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UNISYS North and West Hemisphere Water Vapor Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop - thank you)

But, that is boring stuff regardless of the death. These deaths didn't occur because of war or snipers or weapons of mass destruction. I am sure Ronald Reagan is more interesting to the political games in the USA.

Ronald Reagan, without being completely insulting, was an actor turned President. He was never a war president. He achieved his "Reaganomics" through deregulation until it got to prostitution and there he drew the line. 

PLEASE RECALL Reagan didn't like unions and unions support the Middle Class. So, Reaganomics was always about Wall Street and not the Middle Class at all.

Reagan's answer to the Middle East was to counter hostage taking with shipment of arms. If that is not ransom don't ask me what is. But, because it wasn't money it is not considered a ransom.

I pass no judgement on families of hostages that have been killed in Syria. They are seeking to change the ransom standings of the USA as willing and not opposing payments. They lost dearly wonderful people that sacrificed in their lives to bring hope to others in the Middle East.

I will say this, however; anytime the USA has paid ransom with weapons it has lead to the next capture of American hostages to be traded for weapons. There is no indication paying ransom of any kind will prove to be a safe strategy to protect the American people. If I were in the same place as the American families I would feel the same as they do. I have no doubt in my mind. But, other than the emotional trauma there is no justification for paying ransom. Doing so would be a bad idea.

The statement today about Reagan being hell bent on war and aggression is the only stance the USA should ever take on any international stage is irresponsible and a lie. In other words the USA should be on a war footing 24/7 for that moment of opportunity to invade yet another country. 

It was Former Secretary of State, General Colin Powell that stated overwhelming force is the only defense strategy for the USA. It's a Republican thing. 

Overwhelming power is very expensive both in treasure and lives of Americans. The USA cannot and will not continue to be the world's police. Just because we have been in the past does not mean that is what we will do in the future. 

The USA is on track to pursue peace, break down barriers to that peace and pursue the end to genocide before it begins. Is that realistic? Yes, it is. The USA will always need a strong defense and a readiness, but, no different than any other country or union of countries with large land masses where citizens live. Or try to live under a dense blanket of greenhouse gases.

I believe in peace, the Pope demands peace and there is every indication most civilized people want peace.

Peace won't happen unless we prepare for it and foster it. The way peace is fostered is for the needs of people to be met and encourage economic foot prints across any trade route that matters. It can work. It has worked in times past. Russia has to come to terms with it's own insecurities and return to vibrant economic alliances with more than Post Soviet countries. When that happens peace will take on a greater significance again.

But, for the Republicans and their extremist press stating Reagan had the right idea for America and was feared by all is HOGWASH. The hostages for weapons methodology of Ronald Reagan is not a man feared so much as a country compromised. I think the right wingers in the USA can take that rhetoric out of their political plans because it is nothing but a lie. 

I am not sure what kind of a deal was cut with Iran before Reagan's election, but, if the activities after his presidency is any indication, it was way outside the boundaries of simple politics.

The shipments were real and provided a real glimpse of the USA's weakest links in the presidencies of two Republican presidents.

The transactions (click here) that took place in the Iran-Contra scandal were contrary to the legislation of the Democratic-dominated Congress and contrary to official Reagan administration policy. Part of the deal was that, in July 1985, the United States would send 508 American-made TOW anti-tank missiles...

Below are the same type of weapons sent in hostages for arms under Reagan.

Upwards of 80 American-made TOW anti-tank missiles (click here) reportedly were captured by Al-Qaed-linked fighters in Syria after Western-supported opposition groups were overrun or defected to Al-Nusra Front.

...from Israel to Iran for the safe exchange of a hostage, the Reverend Benjamin Weir. After that successful transfer, the Israelis offered to ship 500 HAWK surface-to-air missiles to Iran in November 1985, ...

Below is the HAWK surface to air missiles made by the USA that are the same munitions sent to Iran.

...in exchange for the release of all remaining American hostages being held in Lebanon. Eventually the arms were sold with proceeds going to the contras, and the hostages were released. In February 1986, 1,000 TOW missiles were shipped to Iran....

These were the same type as above.

...From May to November, there were more shipments of various weapons and parts. Eventually Hezbollah elected to kidnap more hostages following their release of the previous ones, which rendered meaningless any further dealings with Iran. 

REFERENCE: Iran-Contra Affair Foreign Affairs, 1985-1992 "Irangate"

The habit of exchanging hostages for arms didn't end under Reagan.

August 2, 1989
By Doyle McManus 

...On Tuesday, (click here) history seemed to be repeating itself. Bush Administration spokesmen said that the United States would make no deals with the terrorists who hold eight Americans in Lebanon--but they refused to object to Israel's proposal to swap its prisoners for the Lebanese militants' captives. And other officials said that the Administration holds out some hope that the Israeli idea might work.

"Our policy has been very clear, that we do not negotiate for the release of hostages," White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said. ". . . But Israel is a sovereign nation. They have a different policy with regard to hostages than we have."

George Herbert Walker Bush served as President of the USA from January 20, 1989 to January 20, 1993. This mess was his baby.

How many know there were hostages during the Reagan Presidency?

June 14, 1985

TWA Flight 847 was hijacked en route from Athens to Rome and forced to land in Beirut, Lebanon, where the hijackers held the plane for 17 days. They demanded the release of the Kuwait 17 as well as the release of 700 fellow Shiite Muslim prisoners held in Israeli prisons and in prisons in southern Lebanon run by the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army. 

When these demands weren't met, hostage Robert Dean Stethem, a U.S. Navy diver, was shot and his body dumped on the airport tarmac. U.S. sources implicated Hezbollah. 

In what was widely perceived as an implicit, never explicit, quid pro quo, the hostages started being released by the hijackers, followed some days after by Israel starting to free some of its hundreds of Shiite prisoners. At the time, U.S. officials denied there was a deal and said Israel had already committed to releasing the prisoners. 

Imad Mughniyah, a senior officer with Hezbollah, was secretly indicted for the TWA hijacking in 1987, along with three others. One of those indicted, Mohammed Ali Hamadei, was arrested in Frankfurt, Germany. In 1989 he was convicted in a German court and sentenced to life in prison. [Editor's Note: Imad Mugniyah remained at large and on the FBI's Most Wanted List for 19 years, until he was killed in a car bombing in Damascus, Syria on Feb. 12, 2008.

Reagan the most feared Republican in history began dealing with terrorists granting weapons for hostages.

The rest is history. Oliver North still appears on FOX News to insure his shadow is never cast on the Neocons of the world. 

Oliver North (click here) is a former United States Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel who served as a National Security Council staff member during the Iran–Contra affair, a political scandal involving the clandestine sale of weapons to Iran, which was to encourage the release of U.S. hostages then held in Lebanon. North formulated the second part of the plan which was to divert proceeds from the arms sales to support the Contra rebel groups in Nicaragua (which had been specifically prohibited under the Boland Amendment). Ten days after the story first broke in a Lebanese newspaper, President Reagan appeared on national television from the Oval Office on November 13, 1986, stating that his purpose was “to send a signal that the United States was prepared to replace the animosity between [the U.S. and Iran] with a new relationship….The most significant step which Iran could take, we indicated, would be to use its influence in Lebanon to secure the release of all hostages held there.”

Reagan began the aggressive USA profile. It hasn't stopped yet.

The first successful bombing of any USA embassy in the region occurred on April 18, 1983. The idea in the Middle East that the USA was the Great Satan began under Reagan and continues through to today among the radicals and extremists. The reputation hasn't exactly been good for the USA. It gave Bin Laden a reason for living.

A suicide bomber in a pickup truck loaded with explosives (click here) rammed into the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. Sixty-three people were killed, including 17 Americans, eight of whom were employees of the Central Intelligence Agency, including chief Middle East analyst Robert C. Ames and station chief Kenneth Haas.
Reagan administration officials said that the attack was carried out by Hezbollah operatives, a Lebanese militant Islamic group whose anti-U.S. sentiments were sparked in part by the revolution in Iran. The Hezbollah operatives who carried out the attack on the embassy reportedly were receiving financial and logistical support from both Iran and Syria. [For more on how and why Iran and Syria were helping to direct attacks on the U.S., see FRONTLINE's interviews with Robert Oakley and Robert C. McFarlane.
The U.S. government took no military action in response to the embassy bombing, although, according to retired Marine Lt. Col. Bill Cowan, a covert military team entered Beirut in order to gather intelligence in preparation for retaliatory strikes.

The bombing of Libya under President Obama wasn't the first time the USA bombed Libya.

Here is a question for you.

Who began the relationship with Iran while the Shah was in power to provide nuclear technology for production of electricity?

Yes, it was the USA under the "Atoms for Peace" program. What President? What year?

President Eisenhower. "Atoms for Peace" was 1953. But, does anyone know that President Eisenhower threatened to use nuclear weapons against China to end the Korean conflict in 1953.

July 27, 1953: (click here) Peace Treaty signed at Panmunjom. 38th parallel reset as boundary between communist North and anti-communist South. Cold War tensions continue unabated. Gen. Mark W. Clark says he has "the unenviable distinction of being the first US Army commander to sign an armistice without victory." 

Ronald Reagan had this 'thing' with Iran. I would hardly call it aggressive to achieve peace.

President Reagan (click here) in Robert McFarlane's office with Adolfo Calero, a Nicaraguan Democratic Resistance (Contra) leader, and Oliver North. 4/4/85.

This picture is from the Ronald Reagan Library.

February 8, 1990
By David Johnston

Clarifying an earlier court filing, (click here) lawyers for Ronald Reagan said today that they were invoking executive privilege in refusing to turn over excerpts from the former President's private diaries to John M. Poindexter, the former national security adviser who faces trial in the Iran-contra affair. 

The explanation by Mr. Reagan's lawyers came in response to an order earlier in the day by Judge Harold H. Greene of Federal District Court, who said he needed clarification on whether they intended to assert a ''formal claim by the former President of executive privilege.'' 

In legal papers filed on Monday, Mr. Reagan's lawyers cited executive privilege, without using the term, in refusing to comply with a previous order by Judge Greene to surrender the diaries.

On Tuesday, Mr. Poindexter's lawyers said the former President had violated the court's order because his lawyers had failed to use the term specifically. ''Whatever it is Mr. Reagan has claimed, and his pleading is deliberately opaque on this issue, it does not amount to a formal claim of executive privilege,'' Mr. Poindexter's lawyers said.

Executive Privilege Was Intended...

So, January 1981 the hostages come home on Reagan's inauguration. April of 1985 Reagan is standing in the Oval Office with Oliver North and a leader of the Nicaraguan Contras by name of Adolfo Calero.

The pieces of the puzzle would not come together until later and Reagan declares Executive Privilege in February 1990 to his diaries that is a record of his activities in regard to the Iran - Contra triangle.

After serving as National Security Adviser (click here) Robert McFarlane’s deputy for two years, Navy Vice Admiral John Poindexter was appointed by President Reagan as national security adviser in December 1985. He held that position for less than a year, as he was forced to resign in November 1986 when the diversion of profits from the Iran arms sales to the Contras was exposed and Attorney General Edwin Meese III revealed that Poindexter had known of it.
The Independent Counsel won a joint indictment against Poindexter, his deputy Oliver North, retired Air Force Major General and businessman Richard Secord, and Secord’s business partner Albert Hakim in March 1988. However, because the four claimed the need for the testimony of the others in their trials, which was a problem because of their Fifth Amendment right to protect against self-incrimination, their cases were separated....

Reagan has quite a history with Iran.

Freed American hostages disembark from a plane at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Jan. 27, 1981, one week after being released.

January 20, 2012 was President Obama's second inauguration. What the heck was this article trying to do? Set the tone for an invasion vs peace talks? There is an agenda here.
January 20, 2012
By The Learning Network

...The New York Times (click here) said that Reagan’s address “made no reference at all to the long-awaited release of the hostages” as he was “apparently following a self-imposed restraint of not saying anything until the Americans had left Iranian air space.”... 

...On Jan. 11, 2012, as tensions increased over Iran’s nuclear program, the country reported that an Iranian nuclear scientist died in what was termed a “terrorist bomb blast” in northern Tehran when an unidentified motorcyclist attached a magnetic explosive device to the scientist’s car. Officials denounced Israel and the U.S. and called for retaliation for the killing. According to a Jan. 12 article in The New York Times, “the scientists’ deaths are part of what current and former American officials and specialists on Iran have called an accelerating covert campaign of assassinations, bombings, defections and digital attacks, which they believe has been carried out mainly by Israel in an effort to subvert Iran’s nuclear program."

Earlier that week, Iran announced that it had sentenced a U.S.-born former Marine from Flint, Mich., to death for allegedly spying for the C.I.A.

Do you think incidents like these could lead to full-scale war? Why or why not? What, if anything, do you think can be done to prevent the escalation of tension between Iran and the United States?

Fully expect to hear war mongering by the Israeli Prime Minister in regard to Iran. I have no doubt some of these events will be peppered throughout the speak to REMIND those in the White House exactly what the USA is in the world.

This is the prep for a country, post 2016, that will sustain.