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Headlines : "War on Terror"

Summary:

The Bush Administration seems to have concluded that Iran is guilty until proven innocent and continues to maintain that the Persian Gulf belongs to Americans — not to Persians — setting the stage for a potential military strike.

[Posted By ShiftShapers]

By Larisa Alexandrovna
Republished from AlterNet

The escalation of war rhetoric against Iran from the Bush White House and the neocons is just the latest installment of a long-term plan for another preemptive war.

The escalation of US military planning on Iran is only the latest chess move in a six-year push within the Bush Administration to attack that country. While Iran was named a part of President George W. Bush’s “axis of evil” in 2002, efforts to ignite a confrontation with Iran date back long before the post-9/11 war on terror.

Presently, the Administration is trumpeting claims that Iran is closer to a nuclear weapon than the CIA’s own analysis shows and positing Iranian influence in Iraq’s insurgency, but efforts to destabilize Iran have been conducted covertly for years, often using members of Congress or non-government actors in a way reminiscent of the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal.

The motivations for an Iran strike were laid out as far back as 1992. In classified defense planning guidance — written for then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney by then-Pentagon staffers I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, World Bank Chief Paul Wolfowitz, and ambassador-nominee to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad — Cheney’s aides called for the United States to assume the position of lone superpower and act preemptively to prevent the emergence of even regional competitors. The draft document was leaked to the New York Times and the Washington Post and caused…

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Now we are getting somewhere. 100 yr plan?

johnnycivil @ 02/13/07 20:20:07

Presently, the Administration is trumpeting claims that Iran is closer to a nuclear weapon than the CIA’s own analysis shows

CIA analysis=Admin analysis
=what we say iz

johnnycivil @ 02/13/07 20:24:25

CIA analysis = Admin Analysis?

I would find that doubtful.. lately it seems like I’m hearing a lot about how the CIA got it wrong. The CIA had what it had and seemed pretty shaky at best, but only an information spigot at best, one that you wouldn’t want to drink directly from as verbatim and complete of course. It seems slam dunk mouth pieces of the neo-con ilk are the ones who used the portions of CIA information to fit the justifications for executing pre-existing plans and operations. After that SOTU uranium tubes speech
and the debacle that is presently Iraq, I believe a lot of decent people at the CIA (oxymoron?), have had any such voice of reason squashed or have quit, resigned, or been relegated to the corners in favor of yes men. The CIA’s reputation has been tarnished (champion oxymoron) by the neo-con agenda-but then again CIA doesn’t seem to give much respect to rights and democracy around the world so that they’d lose any ‘standing’, is fitting. Still, I think errors are more on neo-con than CIA shoulders.

Maybe thats what you were trying to say and I didn’t get it though :P

glacialimprint @ 02/13/07 22:28:51

Id say ‘CIA’s tarnished reputation’ is more of a tautology

Touchmaster @ 02/14/07 03:43:05

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For Neocons, an Attack on Iran Has Been a Six-Year Project

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