USA: Clinton compares Iran showdown to Cuban missile crisis

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Hello dear list members,

 

Here is an interesting statement by the foreign minister of the USA.

 

Clinton compares Iran showdown to Cuban missile crisis

AFP - Feb 25 03:17 PM US/Eastern

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday compared the showdown with Iran over its nuclear program to the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, which brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Clinton told lawmakers that "we are engaged in very intensive diplomacy," saying it is similar to what president John F. Kennedy did when he forced the Soviet Union to withdraw missiles it had deployed in Cuba, near US shores. "My reading of what happened with President Kennedy is that it's exactly what he did. It was high-stakes diplomacy," the chief US diplomat told the House Appropriations subcommittee. "It was pushing hard to get the world community to understand, going to the UN, making a presentation, getting international opinion against the placement of

Russian weapons in Cuba, making a deal eventually with the Russians that led to the removal of the weapons," she said. "That is the kind of high-stakes diplomacy that I'm engaged in, that other members of this administration are, because we take very seriously the potential threat from Iran," Clinton said. The United States is working with Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany to try to halt Iran's uranium enrichment program, but is finding resistance from China to a fourth round of UN Security Council sanctions. The Western powers fear that the enrichment program masks a drive for nuclear weapons. Iran denies the charge, saying it is for the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.9b1e36b31702683fb79da3c0020866d9.581 & show_article=1

 

The Cuban missile crisis "took place involving the stationary conjunction of the transit shadow planet Ketu and transit Saturn in the 12th degree of the sign Capricorn. In the SAMVA USA chart this is the degree where Mercury is natally placed. Mercury is the 3rd lord of inititative in the chart and is placed in the 7th house of foreign policy".

SAMVA USA chart: Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 (January 17, 2008)

http://cosmologer.blogspot.com/2008/01/samva-usa-chart-cuban-missile-crisis-in.html

 

The tension and danger of the Cuban missile crisis was then defused as the transit-to-natal affliction began to separate.

 

This brings to mind the transits looming during the summer of this year, including the aspect of transit stationary Ketu in the 12th house MEP to natal Ketu in in the 4th house MEP in the SAMVA USA chart.

 

Predictions for the USA in 2010 (December 30, 2009)

http://cosmologer.blogspot.com/2009/12/predictions-for-usa-in-2010.html

 

It will be interesting to see what type of significant event, including strain, this aspect of transit to natal Ketu produces.

 

Thor