Tuesday, July 8, 2008

6 Months Left to Start a War

6 MONTHS LEFT TO START A WAR – BUSH & CHENEY’S PLANS FOR IRAN.

Dick Cheney and George Bush have just secured $400 million additional dollars for a major escalation of US special forces covert operations inside Iran. This includes engaging our special forces inside Iranian territory against Cheney’s hit list of “high value targets” – in other words assassinating or kidnapping key Iranian leaders. The escalation also includes US funding for Al Qaeda-sympathetic Sunni terrorist groups inside Iran. To what aim? To wreak havoc against the Iranian government and cause them to retaliate in a very public fashion. Bush and Cheney know they have just 6 months left to provoke a war, and they consider it their duty to do this before they leave office. The situation seems especially urgent to them given the possibility of an Obama presidency.

Several top level leaders in the Pentagon and Joint Chiefs of staff think this administration is crazy, in private calling their policies dangerous and stupid.

Bush’s own Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, warned Democrats in Congress privately of the consequences if the Bush Administration staged a preëmptive strike on Iran, saying, as one senator recalled, “We’ll create generations of jihadists, and our grandchildren will be battling our enemies here in America.”

The Joint Chiefs of Staff, whose chairman is Admiral Mike Mullen, were “pushing back very hard” against White House pressure to undertake a military strike against Iran . . . The most outspoken officer was Admiral William Fallon, who until recently was the head of U.S. Central Command, and thus in charge of American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. In March, Fallon resigned under pressure from the Bush administration, after publicly stating his reservations about an armed attack on Iran. Admiral Fallon warned: “Let’s get serious. Eighty million people live there, and everyone’s an individual. The idea that they’re only one way or another is nonsense.” Fallon went on to criticize the Bush administration’s military policies: “Did I bitch about some of the things that were being proposed? You bet. Some of them were very stupid.”
The full story of this insanity is covered in Pulitzer prize investigative journalist’s Seymour Hersh’s current article in the New Yorker entitled “PREPARING THE BATTLEFIED.” Click on the link below for the article.

Click on: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_hersh

Seamus Norgaard

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