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Viewing cable 06BUENOSAIRES866, MEDIA REACTION IRAN SIX US GENERALS AGAINST

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06BUENOSAIRES866 2006-04-17 19:58 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Buenos Aires
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DE RUEHBU #0866/01 1071958
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
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FM AMEMBASSY BUENOS AIRES
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 4193
INFO RHMFISS/CDR USSOCOM MACDILL AFB FL//SCJ2//
RULGPUA/USCOMSOLANT
UNCLAS BUENOS AIRES 000866 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR INR/R/MR, I/GWHA, WHA, WHA/PDA, WHA/BSC, 
WHA/EPSC 
CDR USSOCOM FOR J-2 IAD/LAMA 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION IRAN SIX US GENERALS AGAINST 
US DEFENSE SECRETARY DONALD RUMSFELD US IMMIGRATION 
POLICY MIDDLE EAST ARGENTINE JUDICIAL SECURITY 
ARGENTINE AMBASSADOR BORDON'S STATEMENTS ON A/S THOMAS 
SHANNON AND THE SOA 04/17/06 
 
 
1. SUMMARY STATEMENT 
 
Weekend stories cover six US retired military 
allegedly asking for US Defense Secretary Donald 
Rumsfeld's resignation; US Secretary of State 
Condoleezza Rice urging the UN to adopt a resolution 
on Iran; the implications of the US immigration 
policy; the US policy on the Middle East and Israel; 
Argentina's judicial security and foreign investment; 
interview with Argentine Ambassador to Washington, DC, 
Jose Octavio Bordon, who praised both A/S Thomas 
Shannon and the Summit of the Americas; and the visits 
of US Senator Charles Grassley and David Scott Palmer 
to Buenos Aires. 
 
2. OPINION PIECES AND KEY STORIES 
 
- "The US wants to use force against Iran" 
 
Daily-of-record "La Nacion" reports (04/14) 
"Yesterday, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice 
urged the UN to adopt a resolution on Iran... based on 
Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, which foresees the use of 
force. 
 
"The request from the head of US diplomacy's worsened 
even further the open-ended crisis, which yesterday 
pushed oil prices to record levels and unprecedented 
values in some markets to over 70 dollars per barrel." 
 
- "The US pressures the UN to be able to use force 
against Iran" 
 
Ana Baron, Washington-based correspondent for leading 
"Clarin," writes (04/14) "In a gesture of real 
fortification, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice 
yesterday urged the UN to adopt a resolution against 
Iran to allow for the use of force. 
 
"... While the USG itself believes it will take Iran 
more than ten years to build a nuclear weapon, Rice is 
already thinking of using force against the current 
government. 
 
"However, Russia's and, to a certain point, China's 
reluctance to support (even economic) sanctions 
against Iran weakens Rice's statements, at least at 
the UN." 
 
- "US military ask for Rumsfeld's resignation" 
 
Hugo Alconada Mon, Washington-based correspondent for 
daily-of-record "La Nacion," writes (04/15) "For the 
first time since the beginning of the war in Iraq, an 
increasing group of retired generals decided to break 
silence and asked for the resignation of US Defense 
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who is worn out after more 
 
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than three years of occupation and an ongoing constant 
situation of violence after the removal of Saddam 
Hussein. 
 
"Now that US support for the war is at a new 
historical low, Generals Paul Eaton, Anthony Zinni, 
Gregory Newbold, John Batiste, John Riggs and Charles 
Swannack made the unusual decision to openly criticize 
the US Pentagon's political chief, although President 
George W. Bush reiterated his support for the 
government official. 
 
"... Powerful circles blamed Rumsfeld for the 
insufficient number of troops sent to Iraq, the lack 
of previous training for the occupation, serious 
mistakes made in the weeks, months and years after the 
removal of Saddam and the abuses committed in the Abu 
Ghraib prison." 
 
- "Threats to Iran and the rebellion of generals" 
 
Gustavo Sierra, columnist of leading "Clarin," 
comments (04/16) "The resolve of the US military men 
not only introduced the sound of swords in a country 
in which a coup d'etat is unthinkable but shows that 
its society is fed up with the arrogance of Bush's 
men. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
"Six high-ranking retired generals ... made statements 
against US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. They 
accused him of having made constant errors in Iraq and 
not having listened to their criticism of the military 
venture. All of them mentioned Rumsfeld's infinite 
arrogance. 
 
"Another point of agreement among those generals is 
that they oppose a fast bombing campaign against Iran. 
They believe this could only worsen the situation in 
the Middle East and Central Asia. 
 
"US President Bush defended once again his minister, 
as he had done previously during the crisis due to the 
Abu Ghraib prison tortures. Rumsfeld, 73, as well as 
VP Dick Cheney and US Secretary of State Condoleezza 
Rice are Bush's ideological supporters. Removing one 
of them could mean losing even more political weight. 
And, according to opinion polls, his support is only 
slightly above 30%." 
 
- "The silent rebellion of generals" 
 
Mario Diament, director of the School of Journalism at 
Miami International University, writes (04/15) "In a 
country where the possibility of a military coup 
d'etat is unthinkable, the rebellion of the military 
has emerged as the tip of an iceberg whose base is 
much broader and deeper than anyone is willing to 
admit. 
 
"For the moment, criticism is focused exclusively on 
the US Secretary of Defense as a way to preserve the 
president, but if Bush ignores these claims, as many 
have predicted, there is no guarantee that the Teflon 
layer protecting the White House could not peel off." 
 
- "When generals themselves are distrustful" 
 
Oscar Raul Cardoso, international columnist of leading 
"Clarin," writes (04/15) "... No less than six retired 
military officials have publicly asked for (US Defense 
Secretary) Rumsfeld's resignation and even stated that 
 
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the invasion of Iraq was a useless war that had little 
or nothing to do with the fight against the 'terrorist 
threat' alleged by Washington... 
 
"... It would be advisable not to be carried away by 
the US obsession with the Iranian nuclear program 
because the real threat does not come from this side 
at least for now. Iran's uranium enrichment was barely 
3.5%, which is too little to consider war materiel... 
 
"In the most extreme of cases, why would Iran promote 
more instability in the region than what it already 
has, due to the contribution of nuclear weapons owned 
by Israel, for which there is no international 
supervision? 
 
"Bush's problem with Iran seems to be not medium-term 
security but the nature of the Iranian regime, an 
Islamic theocracy he wants to replace, as a 'legacy' 
of his presidency... The 'bomb' would be only an 
excuse, such as the 'WMD' that have never been found 
in Iraq." 
 
- "Primitivism" 
 
Marcelo Cantelmi, international editor of leading 
"Clarin," writes (04/16) "It is unacceptable although 
not unexplainable. The mix of national fanaticism 
(which is bolstered by the government) and a serious 
concentration of wealth may be the bottom line of the 
persecution of minorities in the US. 
 
"It is a substitute for racial discrimination, which 
prevailed in the US until 50 years ago. Actually, it 
is political primitivism but it is clear that it is 
not an exclusive misbehavior on behalf of this 
society, as demonstrated by the European examples and 
some others in the world's periphery. The problem is 
the model, which is unable to solve the contradiction 
created by the 'human excess' it generates, which, 
 
 
 
 
although enslaved in a way, can be neither repressed 
nor ignored." 
 
- "Technicolor dreams" 
 
Gwynne Dyer, international columnist of liberal, 
English-language "Buenos Aires Herald," writes (04/17) 
"... Israel cannot expect to have Washington's support 
for expanding its borders in such a dramatic way from 
any subsequent administration, whether Republican or 
Democratic. No previous administration in Washington 
would have backed such a project either. The Bush 
administration is an aberration, both in its contempt 
for international law and in the degree to which it 
sees US national interests and the desires of the 
current Israeli government as identical... 
 
"Olmert's government can build walls, dig ditches, 
move settlers around, proclaim that Israel's eternal 
borders are now some distance to the east of where 
they were last week, maybe even get the Bush 
administration to agree to the change, but none of it 
will have any legal force." 
 
- 'We are interested in capturing US investment in 
public infrastructure'" 
 
Jorge Sosa, on special assignment in Washington for 
business-financial "El Cronista," writes (04/17) "In 
the US-Argentine bilateral agenda there is a new 
mandate written in capital letters - capturing direct 
US investment. At least, this is now the Kirchner 
administration's main interest, according to Argentine 
Ambassador to Washington Jose Octavio Bordon during an 
interview with 'El Cronista'... Bordon asserted that 
the Government's main interest changed after the 
country's debt renegotiation and its advanced payment 
to the IMF. It now wants to seek investment in 
technology and infrastructure, 'as part of a new 
macroeconomic stage in Argentina.' All this happens in 
spite of the ban on meat exports and the impact this 
brought in overseas markets. 
 
"... Asked about the visit of A/S Tom Shannon to 
Buenos Aires last January, Bordon answered 'Shannon's 
visit was very positive. Ever since we took power, he 
played a very important role... I have always 
considered that even though there was clear 
disagreement on some issues at the Summit (of the 
Americas), there was almost full agreement on some 
other topics." 
 
- "New US Pentagon official for Latin America" 
 
Hugo Alconada Mon, Washington-based correspondent for 
daily-of-record "La Nacion," comments (04/15) 
"According to governmental and legislative sources, 
Roger Pardo Maurer, one of the most confrontational 
and polemic members of the Bush administration in the 
US-Latin American ties, could leave his position as 
deputy assistant Secretary at the US Pentagon by the 
end of the month. 
 
"... According to all consulted sources, his successor 
will have to have a clear goal - healing channels of 
communication with regional allies, such as Argentina, 
and improving coordination of policy within the 
administration." 
 
- "The two heels of a new Achilles" 
 
Mariano Grondona, columnist of daily-of-record "La 
Nacion," opines (04/16) "... In the short run, 
Argentina's economic policy can sustain itself a 
little more. In the medium term, the lack of 
investment due to a hostile climate for free markets 
will be made felt. This is particularly serious in the 
energy sector, in which the Argentine government has 
scolded oil companies for not having invested and 
allowing the country to depend on other energy 
producing countries as though the decision to make 
investments depended on their mere willingness and not 
on figures. 
 
 
 
 
 
"The government has done nothing but scare foreign 
investment away, which should be brought under control 
as it was not done in the 90s but whose potential 
cannot be substituted." 
 
- "An FTA between the US and Argentina is possible" 
 
Jorge Elias, columnist of daily-of-record "La Nacion," 
writes (04/14) "... The head of the US Senate 
Financial Committee, Republican Charles Grassley, 
warned that Peru and Colombia appear now in the free 
trade bilateral deals agenda and he said that Brazil 
and Argentina could also reach this sort of deals, 
just as Uruguay. 
 
"... According to Grassley, 'I noticed that Argentina 
is closer to the US than Brazil in WTO negotiations.' 
 
"The US legislator noticed in Argentina a greater 
acceptance of the US-promoted position and he speaks 
even of the possibility of an FTA between the two 
countries regardless of the fact that it could be 
questioned by the other Mercosur countries." 
 
- "'It is important that Latin America open its doors 
to free trade'" 
 
Natalia Labruna, columnist of business-financial, 
center-right "InfoBae," comments (04/17) "During his 
visit to Argentina, the academician asserted that 
almost all the countries of the region managed to 
increase their trade and investment flow toward and 
from the US, which is part of the results 'of this new 
economic opening.' 
 
"Asked whether the tilt to the left in the region 
could affect its ties with the US, Palmer answered 
that he does not think so. 'This is the outcome of 
democratic procedures. Every country has its own 
economic policy and it is the miracle of the 20th and 
21st centuries. It is clear that the Latin American 
governments are more inclined to the left than to the 
right. 
 
"'Except for Venezuela..., this 'wave' has not 
represented a challenge or a threat to the US, because 
presidents-elect and the people accompanying them have 
a fairly pragmatic (not ideological) position. If we 
look to Uruguay, with its ability to increase its 
exports to the US without an FTA, we see that the 
ideological factor, which used to affect bilateral 
ties thirty years ago, no longer does so.'" 
 
To see more Buenos Aires reporting, visit our 
classified website at: 
http://www.state.sqov.gov/p/wha/buenosaires 
 
LLORENS