On 9 Maj, 17:41, Whileyouslept <whileyousl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> DETERMINED TO ATTACK IRAN BEFORE THE BUSH ERA ENDS: =A0=91Neocons And
The
> Truth: Bitter Enemies To The End=92
>
> Neocons And The Truth: Bitter Enemies To The End
>
> By Glenn Greenwald
> Salon.com
> 8 May, 2008.
>
> In a July, 2006 article in Rolling Stone =97 entitled =93Iran: The Next
> War=94 =97 the superb journalist James Bamford detailed the shady
> activities of numerous neoconservatives inside and out of the U.S.
> Government to plan an attack on Iran. Bamford focused on the role
> played by Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute and
> National Review, who created and began implementing an attack scheme
> in coordination with the Pentagon=92s then number-three official, Doug
> Feith, and Feith=92s deputy, Larry Franklin (subsequently convicted of
> felonies for passing classified information to AIPAC).
>
> A couple weeks after Bamford=92s expos=E8 was published, National Review
> enlisted former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy and talk show host
> Mark Levin jointly to author a defense of Ledeen and, more
> im****tantly, to savage Bamford for writing what they claimed was a
> pack of lies. The McCarthy/Levin article was entitled =93Rolling
Smear,=94=
> sub-headlined =93James Bamford writes a fiction about our Michael
> Ledeen,=94 and accused Bamford of being =93the latest in a growing crowd
> of hacks to smear our friend Michael Ledeen.=94
>
> McCarthy and Levin specifically attacked Bamford=92s disclosure that
> Ledeen =93had arranged a covert meeting in Rome with a group of Iranians
> [and Feith=92s team] to discuss their clandestine help=94 in attacking
> Iran. Said McCarthy and Levin:
>
> =93Bamford, to the contrary, wants to turn the meeting into a nefarious
> plot by Ledeen and the neocons to push the nation into war with Iran.
> Yet, anyone even vaguely familiar with Michael=92s work knows that he
> has opposed military action against Iran =97 notwithstanding that he was
> years ahead of most experts in accurately ****traying Iran=92s role as
> the terror master at the center of the jihadist network.=94
>
> So Bamford=92s claim was =93embarrassing=94 because =93anyone even
vaguely=
> familiar with Michael=92s work knows that he has opposed military action
> against Iran.=94 Got that?
>
> Here=92s Ledeen yesterday, writing in National Review=92s Corner (h/t
> sys****g):
>
> =93Time to Attack Iranian Terror Camps? [Michael Ledeen]
> So says John Bolton, and he=92s right. As you know, I have been
> proposing this for years. I always thought it was only a matter of
> time before we were compelled to take this action, which is a
> legitimate form of self-defense. And while we=92re at it, we should do
> the same thing to the Syrian camps as well. It isn=92t =93sending a
> message,=94 it=92s acting to protect our guys by fighting back in the
> proxy war the mullahs have been waging since 1979. Faster, please?=94
>
> More amazingly, a mere two weeks before McCarthy and Levin wrote that
> =93anyone even vaguely familiar with Michael=92s work knows that he has
> opposed military action against Iran,=94 Ledeen himself wrote at The
> Corner that =93I would insist that my soldiers have the right of =91hot
> pursuit=92 into Iran and Syria, and I would order my armed forces to
> attack the terrorist training camps in those countries.=94
>
> In late 2006, I wrote about virtually identical deceit from this same
> group, that time with regard to Iraq. On National Review in December
> of 2006, Ledeen =97 just as the Beltway establishment was finally
> turning against the war in Iraq and in the wake of a lengthy Vanity
> Fair article identifying the neocons who were to blame =97 claimed: =93I
> opposed the military invasion of Iraq before it took place.=94
>
> In fact, Ledeen, throughout 2002 and 2003, had repeatedly and
> explicitly urged the invasion of Iraq in countless venues, including:
> The Wall St. Journal=92s Op-Ed Page (=94If we come to Baghdad, Damascus
> and Tehran as liberators, we can expect overwhelming popular
> sup****t=94); in an interview with David Horowitz=92s Front Page
(=94Questi=
on
> #2: Okay, well if we are all so certain about the dire need to invade
> Iraq, then when do we do so? Ledeen: Yesterday.=94); on MSNBC=92s
Hardball=
> with Chris Matthews (=94if President Bush is to be faulted for anything
> in this so far, it=92s that he=92s taken much too long to get on with
it,
> much too long=94); and in National Review (calling for =93the
desperately-=
> needed and long overdue war against Saddam Hussein and the rest of the
> terror masters=94).
>
> That war-cheerleading neoconservatives of this strain are completely
> unbound by the truth is not news. Obviously, the war they unleashed in
> Iraq is the most compelling proof of that. But sometimes when the
> lying is so blatant, one can=92t help but note it.
>
> The same is true for the complete lack of accountability. Ledeen is a
> so-called =93Freedom Scholar=94 at the revered and widely-cited American
> Enterprise Institute and a Contributing Editor at National Review. An
> intense email campaign over his Iraq comments to AEI and National
> Review=92s Editor Rich Lowry demanding a retraction or some comment from
> them on Ledeen=92s blatant falsehoods over his Iraq stance was simply
> ignored, as will be this episode concerning the article by McCarthy
> and Levin smearing Bamford due to Ledeen=92s alleged opposition to
> attacking Iran.
>
> This isn=92t just a matter of do***enting guilt with regard to what
> happened with Iraq. The Wa****ngton Post=92s David Ignatius today became
> just the latest establishment spokesman to warn (or celebrate) that
> =93judging from recent statements by administration officials, there is
> also a small, but growing, chance of conflict with Iran.=94
>
> The neoconservative war-lovers behind this effort have not changed,
> nor have their tactics. They realize, as many of them acknowledge,
> that they will have four more years in power if John McCain is
> elected. But they also realize that he may not be, and that their last
> hope for their long-desired attack on Iran lies in convincing the
> current administration to provoke one before its tenure ends. As much
> as one wishes it weren=92t true, as much as the fixation on petty
> election issues might obscure it, the truly depraved extremist group
> that brought us the invasion of Iraq still exerts substantial
> influence and is quite busy trying to exert it.
>
> UPDATE: It isn=92t just the American neocons, but also the Israelis, who
> are escalating the =93Attack Iran=94 campaign. The Jerusalem Post
> yesterday =93re****ted=94 that =93with Iran racing forward with its
nuclear=
> program, Israel now believes the Islamic Republic will master
> centrifuge technology and be able to begin enriching uranium on a
> military scale this year=94 (h/t quick strategy) and:
>
> =93The new *****sment moves up Israel=92s forecasts on Teheran=92s
nuclear=
> program by almost a full year =97 from 2009 to the end of 2008.
> According to the new timeline, Iran could have a nuclear weapon by the
> middle of next year.=94
>
> According to several commenters, the Israeli Ambassador to the U.S.
> was on Fox News this morning making the same fear-mongering claim.
>
> The principal tactic Israel-centric neocons have repeatedly used with
> Bush to induce him to attack Iran has been to tell him that history
> will judge him based on whether he permits Iran to obtain a nuclear
> weapon. From The Weekly Standard=92s Irwin Stelzer, writing about a 2007
> White House luncheon with Bush, historian Andrew Roberts, and a group
> of necons:
>
> =93The closing note was a more serious one. Roberts said that history
> would judge the president on whether he had prevented the
> nuclearization of the Middle East. If Iran gets the bomb, Saudi
> Arabia, Egypt, and other countries will follow. =93That is why I am so
> pleased to be sitting here rather than in your chair, Mr. President.=94
> There was no response, other than a serious frown and a nod.=94
>
> Norman Podhoretz, when telling the President to bomb Iran, used the
> same tactic:
>
> =93 =93I urged Bush to take action against the Iranian nuclear
facilities
> and explained why I thought there was no alternative,=94 said Podhoretz,
> 77, in an interview with The Sunday Times. . . .
>
> He also told Bush: =93You have the awesome responsibility to prevent
> another holocaust. You=92re the only one with the guts to do
> it.=94 . . . .
>
> =93The president has said several times that he will be in the
> historical dock if he allows Iran to get the bomb. He believes that if
> we wait for threats to fully materialise, we=92ll have waited too long
=97=
> something I agree with 100%,=92 Podhoretz said.=94
>
> And now, magically up pops these new re****ts from Israel warning that
> the deadline to stop Iran=92s nuclear bomb is the end of the year =97
> right before George Bush leaves office. Bush has less than eight
> months left to fulfill his history-mandated mission =93to prevent
> another holocaust=94 by attacking Iran, or else =93be in the historical
> dock if he allows Iran to get the bomb.=94 They=92re as transparent as
> they are dishonest and bloodthirsty.
>
> (Glenn Greenwald was previously a constitutional law and civil rights
> litigator in New York. He is the author of the New York Times
> Bestselling book =93How Would a Patriot Act?,=94 a critique of the Bush
> administration=92s use of executive power, released in May 2006. His
> second book, =93A Tragic Legacy=93, examines the Bush legacy.)
>
> =A9 Salon.com
>
>
SOURCE:http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/05/08/ledeen/index.html=
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0In case you missed these recent news
re=
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>
> A DARK OMEN OF WAR? =A0=91U.S. Prophesizes Iran Striking Back - U.S.
State=
> Department official Thomas Shannon hints at a war on Iran, saying
> Tehran may use South America as a springboard for retaliation=92
>
> U.S. Prophesizes Iran Striking Back
>
> PressTV, Iran,
> 7 May, 2008.
>
> US State Department official Thomas Shannon hints at a war on Iran,
> saying Tehran may use South America as a springboard for retaliation.
>
> In a Wednesday conference, Shannon opined that the Islamic Republic is
> likely to use Latin America to launch retaliatory strikes against the
> United States in the event of a US military attack on the country.
>
> "It's a way to push back on us=85 Our broader concern is that it
> maintains that capacity in the Americas as a threat against us in the
> event of any conflict," claimed Shannon.
>
> He then renewed accusations of Tehran masterminding the 1990 bombings
> in Buenos Aires.
>
> "As we urge countries to respect UN-based sanctions, we also remind
> them about AMIA, we remind them about the Israeli embassy bombings,"
> Shannon said in sup****t of US plans against Iran made at the United
> Nations Security Council.
>
> The accusations are believed to be in line with a new propaganda
> campaign launched by the White House to ****tray Iran as a threat, thus
> preparing the international community for a war against Iran.
>
> Political analysts say these remarks are reminiscent of the
> developments prior to the Iraq war and that since 'Wa****ngton and
> allies' have failed to gain full-throated sup****t against Iran over
> its nuclear program, they are ****fting their focus onto creating the
> impression of an Iranian threat to world peace.
>
> SOURCE:
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> U.S. WAR-HAWKS GATHER IN SECRET TO PLOT THEIR NEXT WAR CRIME: =91Re****t:
> U.S. Convenes On Iran War Scenario=92 =96 =91Bolton: Attack Iran To Win
In=
> Iraq=92
>
> Re****t: U.S. Convenes On Iran War Scenario
>
> PressTV, Iran,
> 7 May, 2008
>
> High-ranking US officials have re****tedly held a special meeting to
> study options for a military strike against the Islamic Republic.
>
> The secret meeting was re****tedly held on Tuesday either at the White
> House or at the US Department of Defense.
>
> In response to questions by re****ters regarding the subject of the
> meeting, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said he would not disclose
> any details.
>
> Morrell said White House officials frequently hold sessions to discuss
> issues related to Iran. He, however, refused to reveal the details of
> Tuesday's meeting, informed sources told Press TV.
>
> When asked about the secret meeting, State Department spokesman Sean
> McCormack declined to comment and referred re****ters to the US
> Department of Defense.
>
> The Pentagon spokesman claimed in an address to re****ters that
> Wa****ngton was seeking to fight the fatal interference of the Iranian
> government in Iraq and went on to say that the US had 'conclusive
> evidence of Tehran's sup****t for Iraq insurgency'.
>
> Morrell also accused Tehran of double standard policies claiming that
> while the Islamic Republic claims it sup****ts the Iraqi government, it
> funnels arms to those who destabilize the administration.
>
> Wa****ngton continues to accuse Iran of supplying and training Iraqi
> militants; however, it has so far failed to provide 'smoking gun
> evidence' for its allegations.
>
> Iran categorically denies such allegations, asserting that the country
> has vowed to help Iraq restore security and stability in the war-torn
> country.
>
> Although US officials have recently rejected the possibility of an
> imminent attack on Iran, many critics inside and outside the US
> government harbor serious doubts about the Bush administration's
> claims and fear that despite the relentless war in neighboring Iraq,
> it is preparing for a war on Iran.
>
> SOURCE:http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=3D54656=A7ionid=3D351020101
>
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> Bolton: Attack Iran To Win In Iraq
>
> PressTV, Iran,
> 7 May, 2008.
>
> Former top US diplomat John Bolton calls for military strikes on Iran,
> claiming they will serve as a major step toward a victory in Iraq.
>
> The former American ambassador to the UN told Fox News that while
> there is a risk of a hostile Iranian response - in case of a US strike
> on Iran -, Wa****ngton would be in more trouble than it already is in
> if no action is taken against Tehran.
>
> Bolton's remarks come at a time when the White House is making a fresh
> stream of allegations regarding 'Iran's influence in Iraq'.
>
> US military spokesman Col. Donald Bacon accused Tehran on Monday of
> aiding Lebanon's Hezbollah Movement by providing them training grounds
> for Iraqi insurgents near the Iranian capitol.
>
> "We have captured other Iraqis who have discussed their training in
> Iran and who state many of their instructors were Lebanese Hezbollah,"
> the Associated Press had quoted Bacon as saying.
>
> "[It] is really the most prudent thing to do," Bolton responded.
>
> "This is a case where the use of military force against a training
> camp to show the Iranians we're not going to tolerate [their
> actions]."
>
> "Then the ball would be in Iran's court to draw the appropriate lesson
> to stop harming our troops," added Bolton who is an influential member
> of President George W. Bush's inner circle.
>
> While the Bush administration has failed to provide concrete proof for
> accusations that Tehran fuels violence in Iraq, top US officials and
> well-known politicians refuse to refrained from threatening Iran in
> what is seen as preparing the American public for another US war in
> the oil-rich Middle East.
>
> SOURCE:http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=3D54658=A7ionid=3D351020101
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 (These news items are posted under =91Fair Use=92
provisio=
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> =91Is War With Iran Imminent?=92- Justin
Raimondohttp://www.antiwar.com/ju=
stin/?articleid=3D12755
>
> =91The Iraq War Morphs Into The Iranian
War=92http://www.informationcleari=
nghouse.info/article19839.htm
>
> 'Israel Preparing To Bomb Iran Nuclear
Sites'http://www.presstv.ir/detail.=
aspx?id=3D53558=A7ionid=3D351020104
>
> 'Joint Chiefs Chairman Says U.S. Preparing Military Options Against
>
Iran'http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/25/AR200=
....
>
> =91FEMA To Help Run 8-Day Disaster And Terror Drill Covering U.S. (And
> Canada Command) In
May=92http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=3D8679=
>
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>
> 'Is A U.S./Israeli Air Strike On Iran Drawing Steadily Closer?' (News
> Updates)http://www.mimico-by-the-lake.com/IRANWAR.HTM
>
> - o O o =96
>
> 'Bush Was Prepared To Go Nuclear: Afghanistan Was To Have Been A NWO
> Object Lesson!=92http://www.mimico-by-the-lake.com/NUCLEAR.HTM.
>
> =91The Plan For Three World
Wars=92http://www.mimico-by-the-lake.com/3WARS=
..HTM
>
> Elitist Blueprint For World Government
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/articles/may2008/050108_elitist_blueprint...
>
> 'Astounding Quotes From The Political And Financial Elite On The
> Planned New World Order'http://www.mimico-by-the-lake.com/TRAGEDY.HTM
>
> Archived =91New World Order Intelligence Update=92 Articles on the
=91New
> World Order=92http://www.mimico-by-the-lake.com/sect22.htm
>
> The Elite=92s Secretive Plan For A =91North American
Union=92http://www.mi=
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>
> 'The 1935 U.S. War Plan For The Invasion Of
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>
> 'Canadian Troops To Police U.S. Cities During Martial Law;
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>
> 'The Grand Canal - The Elite's Continent-Reshaping, Climate-Altering
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>
> The Elite=92s =93Newstates=92 Constitution For The Coming =91United
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Of
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>
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> Bankrupt U.S.A. Covets Iran=92s Oil=85.
>
> http://www.mimico-by-the-lake.com/MELTDWN1.HTM
> 'Sorting Through The Rubble In Post-Bubble America'
>
> http://www.mimico-by-the-lake.com/MELTDOWN.HTM
> 'The Coming U.S. Economic and Financial Meltdown'
>
> http://www.mimico-by-the-lake.com/MELTDWN2.HTM
> 'The U.S. Economic and Financial Meltdown Accelerates'
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Too?'http://=
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>
> 'The Coming Great Food Shortages In America' by Texe
Marrshttp://www.mimic=
o-by-the-lake.com/TEXMARRS.HTM
>
> =85And the likely response to an economic or financial crisis by =91El
> Presidente=92 Bush?
>
> George W. Bush: Constitution of the United States is just a "goddamned
> piece of
paper."http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_8534=
..shtml
>
> 'General Tommy Franks Says U.S. Constitution May Not Survive, Sees
> Possible Military Form Of Government In The =A0United
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>
> 'Concentration Camps in America? Martial Law Civilian Detention
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>
> 'Astoni****ng 1987 =91Miami Herald=92 News Re****t Reveals Existence Of A
> 'Secret Government', Plus Plans To Suspend Constitution, Impose
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the-lake.com/CONCAMP2.HTM
>
> U.S. Congressman: American Concentration Camps "On The
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mimico-by-the-lake.com/CONCAMP3.HTM
>
> 'More Preparations For U.S. Martial
Law'http://www.mimico-by-the-lake.com/=
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> 'FEMA: America's Secret
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>
> http://www.mimico-by-the-lake.com/GEO443.HTM
> 'War Is A Racket' by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC
>
> http://www.mimico-by-the-lake.com/BLACK-OP.HTM
> 'Chemtrails: Are They For Climate Control, Weather Modification,
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> 'Chemtrail X' in the skies over Toronto, Canada!)
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> NUCLEAR TREASON AT THE TOP OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT?
>
> These serious allegations, involving the alleged =91sale=92 of nuclear
> secrets, reach right to the top of the U.S. government. The
> prestigious London =91Sunday Times=92 first broke this blockbuster story
> on 6th January, 2008 =96 it has been completely =91blacked out=92 by the
> U.S. media and wire services!
>
> For news headline and blogger article links on the recent sensational
> =91U.S. Nuclear Treason And Betrayal=92 revelations of Sibel Edmonds,
the
> ex-FBI whistleblower who has been called =91The most-gagged woman in
> America=92, go tohttp://www.mimico-by-the-lake.com/EDMONDS.HTM
>
> =93If you made public all the information that the FBI have on this
> case, you will see very high-level people going through criminal
> trials=94 =96 Sibel Edmonds
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