{"id":40463,"date":"2011-12-30T09:10:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T09:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=40463"},"modified":"2012-01-04T09:28:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T09:28:33","slug":"the-iowa-caucus-and-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=40463","title":{"rendered":"The Iowa Caucus and Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Christopher Bollyn \u2013 Bollyn.com December 29, 2011<\/h1>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">I had always believed, and still believe, that oppressive forces draw much of their strength from their ability to wield their power in secret.<br \/>\n&#8211; <\/span><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Julian Assange &#8211; The Unauthorized Autobiography<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><\/em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Israeli general Amos Yadlin traveled to Chicago in an effort to enlist [Lester] Crown\u2019s help in convincing the administration to attack Iran.<br \/>\n<em>&#8211; <\/em><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2010\/08\/20\/israel-big-money-and-obama\/\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Israel, Big Money and Obama<\/span>&#8220;<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">, 20 August 2010<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">The Crown family supports candidates from both parties, depending on their strategic goal. Susan Crown, for example, who gave at least $12,300 to candidate Obama between 2003 and 2007 is now supporting the Republican Mitt Romney&#8217;s bid for the White House.<br \/>\n&#8211; <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bollyn.com\/occupy-dc\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Chicago&#8217;s Elders of Zion and Obama&#8217;s War for Profit<\/span>&#8220;<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">, October 2011<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>The Republican caucus in Iowa on January 3 is of great importance because it\u00a0is the first poll to determine which candidate will\u00a0challenge Barack Obama for the presidency.\u00a0 A CNN\/Time poll indicates that Ron Paul and Mitt Romney are currently\u00a0the front runners\u00a0polling about 25 percent each.\u00a0 Two days earlier Ron Paul was the clear\u00a0front runner, several points\u00a0ahead of Romney and\u00a0Newt Gingrich, who has now fallen further\u00a0behind.<\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Ron-Paul-is-opposed-to-waging-war-on-Iran.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-40464\" title=\"Ron Paul is opposed to waging war on Iran. Click to enlarge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Ron-Paul-is-opposed-to-waging-war-on-Iran-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Ron-Paul-is-opposed-to-waging-war-on-Iran-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Ron-Paul-is-opposed-to-waging-war-on-Iran.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>One of the\u00a0key issues in the GOP Iowa caucus is the position\u00a0of the candidates regarding the Zionist war policy against Iran.\u00a0 Ron Paul is\u00a0opposed to waging war\u00a0against Iran while Romney and most of the others are eager armchair warriors against the Islamic\u00a0Republic of Iran.\u00a0 With\u00a0the new U.S. sanctions\u00a0having brought Iranian threats to close the Straits of Hormuz, the issue is now of the utmost importance as the chances\u00a0of war are greater than ever.\u00a0<\/h5>\n<h5>Iran\u00a0has\u00a0been the subject of a Zionist war strategy for years\u00a0in the same way that\u00a0organized Jewry declared war on Germany in the early 1930s, long before the invasion of Poland in 1939.\u00a0 The\u00a0punitive sanctions against Iran are war by other methods and unless the United States changes its approach to Iran\u00a0it\u00a0will find itself in another\u00a0major war\u00a0in the Middle East, one with unforeseeable\u00a0consequences.<\/h5>\n<div id=\"attachment_40465\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Crown_Susan_Henry_Lester.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40465\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40465\" title=\"Crown_Susan_Henry_Lester\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Crown_Susan_Henry_Lester-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Crown_Susan_Henry_Lester-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Crown_Susan_Henry_Lester.jpg 801w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40465\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry, Lester, and Susan Crown of Chicago. A family of Zionist war profiteers, the Crowns became rich on U.S. defense spending in World War II and have profited on every war since. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<h5>The Crown family\u00a0of Chicago is one of the key Zionist supporters of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.\u00a0 As a major shareholder of General Dynamics, the Crown family profits from U.S. defense spending and war.\u00a0 As a leading Zionist family, the Crowns support\u00a0sanctions and the Israeli\u00a0warmongering\u00a0against Iran.\u00a0 The Crowns\u00a0have invested in Mitt Romney because he is willing to wage war to please his Zionist supporters.\u00a0 To\u00a0push the nation into war to serve a foreign state is treasonous.<\/h5>\n<h5>Mitt Romney would probably\u00a0win the caucus if\u00a0the Republican Party of Iowa\u00a0were to tally the caucus results using the dodgy\u00a0Voxeo telephonic tally system\u00a0used by the Iowa\u00a0Democrats\u00a0in 2004 and 2008.\u00a0 But\u00a0after having intensively queried the\u00a0Republican Party of\u00a0Iowa about how the\u00a0results will be tallied it seems to me\u00a0that they will be\u00a0tallying the results themselves in Des Moines.\u00a0<\/h5>\n<h5>Nicole\u00a0Sizemore, assistant communications director for the GOP of\u00a0Iowa, told Bollyn.com\u00a0that there is no outside contractor involved in the tally and that\u00a0it will be a &#8220;very transparent&#8221; poll with multiple observers.\u00a0 Although\u00a0Sizemore could not reveal the specifics about how the results would\u00a0be communicated to headquarters, she confirmed that a complete breakdown of the 1,774 precinct results would be published within 14 days.\u00a0<\/h5>\n<h5>This\u00a0is good news because it suggests that the results of the January 3 Republican caucus are\u00a0likely to be more representative,\u00a0honest, and accurate than the Democratic caucus in\u00a02008 that helped bring the dark horse candidate Barack Obama to power.\u00a0\u00a0In 2004 another dark horse candidate,\u00a0John Kerry, came from behind to run against George W. Bush.\u00a0 In both cases, pro-war candidates from the back of the pack\u00a0won the rigged caucus effectively\u00a0removing the question of the illegal war policy from the debate.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s\u00a0hope Ron Paul wins Iowa\u00a0in a truly\u00a0honest and transparent caucus on January 3.\u00a0 We certainly don&#8217;t need anymore illegal\u00a0Zionist wars for profit.<\/h5>\n<h5>Sources and Recommended Reading:<\/h5>\n<p>Bollyn, Christopher, &#8220;Chicago&#8217;s Elders of Zion and Obama&#8217;s War for Profit&#8221;, 14 October 2011<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bollyn.com\/occupy-dc\">http:\/\/www.bollyn.com\/occupy-dc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Israel, Big Money and Obama &#8211; Mr. Crown and the President&#8221;, by Margaret Kimberley, CounterPunch.org, 20 August 2010<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2010\/08\/20\/israel-big-money-and-obama\/\">http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2010\/08\/20\/israel-big-money-and-obama\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No Success in Iraq \u2013 Unless You&#8217;re a War Profiteer&#8221;, by Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe, Huffingtonpost.com, 15 December 2011<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/robert-greenwald-and-derrick-crowe\/no-success-in-iraq--unles_b_1151171.html%20\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/robert-greenwald-and-derrick-crowe\/no-success-in-iraq&#8211;unles_b_1151171.html\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bollyn.com\/the-iowa-caucus-and-iran \">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has been the subject of a Zionist war strategy for years in the same way that Zionists declared war on Germany long before the invasion of Poland in 1939. 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