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Here we go again....Another war looming!

politicalgateway.com

The New Yorker are publishing a report today from Journalist Seymour Hersh implying the Bush Administration is planning for air strikes and commando style raids in Iran.

Hersh is a veteran journalist who was the first to write about many details of the abuses of prisoners Abu Ghraib in Baghdad

The effort has been under way at least since last summer, Hersh said on CNN's "Late Edition." Hersh said U.S. officials were involved in "extensive planning" for a possible attack -- "much more than we know."
"The goal is to identify and isolate three dozen, and perhaps more, such targets that could be destroyed by precision strikes and short-term commando raids," he wrote in "The New Yorker" magazine, which published his article in editions that will be on newsstands Monday.

He said his information on Iran came from "inside" sources who divulged it in the hope that publicity would force the administration to reconsider. "I think that's one of the reasons some of the people on the inside talk to me," he said.
The secret missions in Iran, Hersh said, have been authorized in order to prevent similar embarrassment in the event of military action there. "The planning for Iran is going ahead even though Iraq is a mess," Hersh said. "I think they really think there's a chance to do something in Iran, perhaps by summer, to get the intelligence on the sites."
He added, "The guys on the inside really want to do this."
Hersh identified those inside people as the "neoconservative" civilian leadership in the Pentagon. That includes Rumsfeld, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith -- "the sort of war hawks that we talk about in connection with the war in Iraq."
And he said the preparation goes beyond contingency planning and includes detailed plans for air attacks:
"The next step is Iran. It's definitely there. They're definitely planning ... But they need the intelligence first."
In an interview on the same program, White House Communications Director Dan Bartlett said the story was "riddled with inaccuracies."
The CNN article is here - http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/16/hersh.iran/index.html
The New Yorker Article is unpublished at the time of this report.



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[ This Message was edited by: axxxr on 2005-01-19 03:15 ]
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Posted: 2005-01-19 04:15:03
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lets just kill b*** (kill bill) ???
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Posted: 2005-01-19 04:49:39
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when it comes to this stuff... i wish i wasnt from the US...
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Posted: 2005-01-19 14:23:12
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the us just cant let the war-games circus...
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Posted: 2005-01-19 14:43:26
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...they must allways create some wars...
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Posted: 2005-01-19 14:50:20
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another us-led war..what's new with that?! This message was posted from a Nokia
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Posted: 2005-01-19 15:05:49
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The U.S just likes to start wars and then blame others!
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Posted: 2005-01-19 15:08:31
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Hopefully, we won't have any use for... http://electronicIran.net

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Posted: 2005-01-19 15:09:45
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@axxxr, there was a great programme on last night on BBC 2 (UK) called The Powers of Nightmare

The first of three films about the rise of the politics of fear.

The series demonstrates how the threat of Islamist terrorism has been distorted and exaggerated by politicians. While there is a terrorist threat from radical Islamism, the idea that we are faced by a terrifying hidden organisation orchestrated by evil mastermind Osama bin Laden is a fantasy.

To read the rest goto -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/l[....]18/20050118_2320_4224_40235_60
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Posted: 2005-01-19 15:24:41
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batesie....I was meaning to watch that but missed it due to some other stuff i had to do....Hope they repeat it!
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Posted: 2005-01-19 15:31:09
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