Monday, April 10, 2006
Iran: Stick that in your stovepipe and smoke it
Remember the White House Iraq Group, which trumped up the case for war? Now there's a similar bunch of funsters trumping up the case against Iran. It's called the Iran-Syria Operations Group, and it's headed by Liz Cheney. Looks like they're flogging (dis-)info from Iranian exiles and dubious sources. Sound familiar? Betcha these are the folks who will tell us who to blame for Big Wedding II.
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Syriana - great flik with (was it) the CLI-Coalition to Liberate Iran -- apparently renamed in 'real life.'
been listening to progressive talk in response to Sy Hersch and note two glaring omissions in all:
1) American Conservative article and others (see below) have previously reported the Nuke Iran plans (yeah, right wing radio like Boortz was screaming for that in the 1970s -- they had a song based on the Duke of Earl tune. Of course, I am GREATLY RELIEVED to see it finally breaking thru to the mass media consciousness as I'm in India which supposedly would be in the direct path of the radionucliede storm.
2) Just a few short days (maybe a week or so) ago it was announced that the largest non-nuclear explosion was going to produce a 'mushroom cloud' visible in Las Vegas in June to test the effectiveness of 'bunker busting'. The conventional bomb is way-too-heavy to be transported by an airplane so it is obviously a surrogate test subject like a lab rat for the use of nuclear bunker buster.
One of the Bomb Iran articles from 2005 that I saved:
US Plans Nuclear Attack on Iran
Drew – Global News Matrix December 17, 2005
The United States is developing a nuclear plan to attack military bases in Iran,
said Philip Giraldi, a former CIA intelligence officer.
Giraldi said that the U.S. nuclear strike against Iran would take place after a
9/11-style attack on the United States, and that the planned attack would be
analogous to the unprovoked invasion of Iraq.
The former CIA officer also said that an attack on the U.S. would serve as the
pretext for putting the plan into action.
He noted that some Air Force officers are opposed to the nuclear strike plan "but
no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections."
Several U.S. officials have indicated that Washington has developed contingency
plans to use nuclear arms to attack military targets in Iran and North Korea.
One recent study, released before the election of former Taliban mayor Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad to the presidency on June 23, asserts that the U.S. assault on Iran
has already started.
The analysis, prepared by former United Nations nuclear arms inspector Scott
Ritter, reveals that the CIA aids Iranian opposition groups.
It also said that the Washington plans to stage military attacks against the
Islamic republic with U.S. forces from the neighboring Republic of Azerbaijan.
Analysts say that although the Bush administration intensified its war of words
against Iran, the propaganda offensive didn’t reach the intensity achieved
during the 2002-2003 build-up for the invasion of Iraq.
They say that the U.S. failure in Iraq and the American public's declining
support for the invasion have made such a propaganda offensive less viable at
this moment.
However, a new attack on the U.S. soil could provoke a large sector of the
American public and encourage the Bush administration to launch an attack on
Iran.
Since an attack on the U.S. is, according to experts, almost inevitable, the
Bush administration would likely be given the justification to attack Iran. Some
believe that the Bush administration would not even seek congressional approval
and launch the attack on the basis of alleged self-defense.
Analysts say that Iran is considerably stronger than Iraq, and that a U.S.
attack on Iran will cause chaos in the Middle East.
The U.S. claims that Iran that it is secretly developing an atomic weapons
program and wants to refer its nuclear file to the UN Security Council for
possible sanctions.
The Islamic republic denies the U.S. allegations, insisting that its nuclear
plans are strictly for the peaceful generation of electricity.
Naturally, Israel would also encourage a U.S. attack on Iran, as it considers
Iran a serious threat to its nuclear monopoly in the Middle East.
In late June, the Israeli ambassador to the U.S., Daniel Ayalon, said that Iran
must be stopped from making nuclear arms. "The clock is ticking, and time is not
on our side," he said.
Moreover, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has reportedly handed the U.S.
President W. Bush photographs of Iran's nuclear facilities.
www.globalnewsmatrix.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1981
Last updated 18/12/2005
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