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Headlines : "War on Terror"Cheney Considered Proposal To Dress Up Navy Seals As Iranians and Shoot at Them
To all those scoffing at the headline, Seymour Hersh is no lightweight. After exposing the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam conflict in 1969 he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. He also wrote reports in 2004 regarding the mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison which gained much recognition.
The fact that we’re hearing these kind of stories coming from reputable reporters like Hersh and not just the likes of Alex Jones, should be a wake up call to moderates who find it hard to believe that such clandestine and repugnant operations actually occur.
[Posted By deaner]Republished from ThinkProgress.org
Speaking at the Campus Progress journalism conference earlier this month, Seymour Hersh – a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for The New Yorker – revealed that Bush administration officials held a meeting recently in the Vice President’s office to discuss ways to provoke a war with Iran.
In Hersh’s most recent article, he reports that this meeting occurred in the wake of the overblown incident in the Strait of Hormuz, when a U.S. carrier almost shot at a few small Iranian speedboats. The “meeting took place in the Vice-President’s office. ‘The subject was how to create a casus belli between Tehran and Washington,’” according to one of Hersh’s sources.
During the journalism conference event, I asked Hersh specifically about this meeting and if he could elaborate on what occurred. Hersh explained that, during the meeting in Cheney’s office, an idea was considered to dress up Navy Seals as Iranians, put them on fake Iranian speedboats, and shoot at them. This idea, intended to provoke an Iran war, was ultimately rejected…
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Posted by HackMkUltra on Friday, August 1st 2008
Bet this doesn’t set well with the Navy Seals.
yea i wonder if they have even heard about it. there are considerable factions of the army that are starting to become suspicious of the executive branch as it is. this certainly does not help.