News and Politics | April 03, 2009 | 4 comments

To Provoke War, Cheney Considered Proposal To Dress Up Navy Seals As Iranians and Shoot at Them

source: http://www.truthout.org/article/hersh-cheney-plan-creating-false-flag-attack

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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:

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.
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4 comments // To Provoke War, Cheney Considered Proposal To Dress Up Navy Seals As Iranians and Shoot at Them

  • WhiteNoise
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      WhiteNoise  

    • EXECUTIVE ASSASINATION RING REPORTED DIRECTLY TO CHENEY OFFICE
      http://current.com/items/89882237/executive_assasination_ring_reported_directly_...

      "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not traitor, he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared." - Cicero, 42 B.C.

    • 3 years ago
  • jh64487
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      jh64487  

    • i think because that would do nothing more than inflame the same time of bipartisan attacks that dominated the bush era. It sucks but that's how it is.

    • 3 years ago
  • asherp
  • asherp
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      asherp  

    • Why is it that the Democratic Majority still CONTINUES TO REFUSE to hold this man accountable?

      We could have passed Dennis Kucinich's HR 333 in 2006 and started impeachment proceedings, yet Nancy Pelosi repeatedly blocked it.

      Why?

      Obama refuses to hold the past administration accountable as well.

    • 3 years ago
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