Earthside Comments: People who were perfectly willing to steal two presidential elections in the United States are not going to have any qualms about starting another war for their own political advantage.
It is a nagging thought that considering the crimes perpetrated by Bush and Cheney while they have been in power that they would risk the skeletons being exposed by a change in executive 'leadership'.
We are not surprised, of course, that Dimocrats in Congress are so befuddled and spineless that they go along with Bushite fearmongering over non-existent WMD ... again.
A Bush-ordered attack on Iran would be insane ... but it is more probable than improbable that it will happen before November 2008.
Link: Preparing the Battlefield | Seymour Hersh/ The New Yorker
Link: Report: U.S. Escalating Covert Ops Against Iran | Reuters/MSNBC.com
U.S. congressional leaders agreed late last year to President George W. Bush's funding request for a major escalation of covert operations against Iran aimed at destabilizing its leadership, according to a report in The New Yorker magazine published online on Sunday.
The article by reporter Seymour Hersh, from the magazine's July 7 and 14 issue, centers around a highly classified Presidential Finding signed by Bush which by U.S. law must be made known to Democratic and Republican House and Senate leaders and ranking members of the intelligence committees.
"The Finding was focused on undermining Iran's nuclear ambitions and trying to undermine the government through regime change," the article cited a person familiar with its contents as saying, and involved "working with opposition groups and passing money."
Hersh has written previously about possible administration plans to go to war to stop Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons, including an April 2006 article in the New Yorker that suggested regime change in Iran, whether by diplomatic or military means, was Bush's ultimate goal. ... MORE
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