Bush administration 'secretly plans air strikes' as it seeks regime change in Iran
There are further signs that, despite public calls for a diplomatic outcome in the dispute with Iran over it's possible development of nuclear weapons, President Bush's real aim is for regime change within that country.
I've long said that, with the US currently occupying (the 60% Shia) Iraq, this is a suicide policy. But the American Taliban, currently occupying the White House and receiving instructions directly from God himself, appear to harbour no such doubts.
Tsk. When did they ever allow such trifles as reason to distract them from their mission to reshape the Middle East in Israel's favour?
I do believe though that this is the first time in history that a superpower has carried out proxy battles on behalf of a client state. (It used to be the other way round.)
The Bush administration has sent undercover forces into Iran, and has stepped up secret planning for a possible major air attack on the country, according to the renowned US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh.One former senior intelligence official is quoted as saying that Mr Bush and others in the White House have come to view Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as a potential "Adolf Hitler". According to a senior Pentagon adviser on the "war on terror", "this White House believes that the only way to solve the problem is to change the power structure in Iran, and that means war". The danger, he adds, is that "it also reinforces the belief inside Iran that the only way to defend the country is to have a nuclear capability".
Critics of military action against Iran point out that it would convulse world oil markets and could lead to retaliation in Iraq. Mr Hersh says he was told by a Pentagon adviser that the southern half of Iraq, where Britain's 8,000 troops are based, would "light up like a candle" in the wake of any strike on Iran, while a general said that, despite the British presence, "the Iranians could take Basra with 10 mullahs and a sound truck".
The greatest disquiet within the military is said to be over the possibility of using nuclear weapons against Iran. Some planners argue that it would be impossible to be certain that underground facilities such as those at Natanz had been completely destroyed unless a nuclear "bunker-buster" was used. Mr Hersh says he was told by a former senior intelligence official that some officers had talked about resigning after an attempt to remove the nuclear option from the war plans failed.
The Pentagon adviser warns, as do many others, that bombing Iran could provoke "a chain reaction" of attacks on American facilities and citizens throughout the world. "What will 1.2 billion Muslims think the day we attack Iran?" he asks.
Mr Hersh reports that the White House refused to comment on military planning, but insisted, as did the Pentagon, that a diplomatic solution was being sought with Iran. The CIA said there were "inaccuracies" in his account, but would not specify them.
When oh when, are Americans going to rise up and remove these nutters from the White House?
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