More Reasons To Distrust
Yet more disturbing, Machiavellian plans from the Bush administration have come to light.
To Provoke War, Cheney Considered Proposal To Dress Up Navy Seals As Iranians And Shoot At Them
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.
As if it's not bad enough that our leaders are trying to figure out ways to surreptitiously start trouble with yet another nation in the Middle East, the way they were going to go about this one really takes the cake:
HERSH: There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war. The one that interested me the most was why don’t we build — we in our shipyard — build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up.
Might cost some lives. And it was rejected because you can’t have Americans killing Americans. That’s the kind of — that’s the level of stuff we’re talking about. Provocation. But that was rejected.
Now, if you haven't read it for yourself, let me tell you, this sort of thinking is right out of The Prince. Maintain power at all costs for that is what is best for your people. Not always true in the 16th Century, most certainly even more rarely true in the 21st.
Set up a false conflict to instill a real one... at least they decided against doing it.
That time.
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