An important article that speculates small Israeli sneak attack to
provoke Iranian retaliation could be covered up so US/ISrael could claim
a "new Pearl Harbor" and wack the heck out of Iran. Hopefully, the
Iranians won't fall for it.
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On to Iran??

http://www.g2mil.com/Summer2005.htm
Editorial

Will the Bush administration order the US military to attack Iran
or Syria? Most Americans consider this unlikely. The Iraq invasion and
occupation has gone poorly and continues to strain the US military and
economy. President Bush's approval rating is at an all-time low.
American allies would not support the action, and may even denounce it.
Oil prices would double overnight to $100 a barrel. Invading Iran would
only make problems worse in Iraq, so few think the Bush administration
will take action.

However, common sense has eluded the Bush administration on many
occasions, not only in Iraq but also the recent plan to "reform" Social
Security. Pulitzer prize winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh
has decades of experience in Washington DC and hundreds of high-level
contacts. He said last January that, "We've been taken over by a cult"
of eight or nine neocons who are now in political positions to expand
the war to Iran over strong objections from allies, career diplomats,
the US Congress, and American Generals. Keep in mind that Iran has
three times the population of Iraq, a somewhat popular central
government, and a military not decimated like Iraq's by a 1991 war
followed by an arms embargo.

Will this cult expand the "war on terror" soon? Several open
sources hint that military action against Iran may occur this Summer.
Last January, the Pentagon awarded contracts to improve airbases in
Afghanistan, including two near the Iranian border. Former Marine Corps
intelligence officer Scott Ritter has extensive contacts in the Middle
East. He was attacked by the corporate press in early 2001 for
announcing that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, yet the Bush
administration had decided to invade anyway. Ritter announced last
February that his sources say the USA will attack Iran in June 2005. In
addition, the US Army has sent missile defense units to Israel while the
US Navy has a large number of ships underway. This has generated
excitement among influential American warmongers and Muslim haters.
Despite promises of a reduction in US troops after the Iraqi elections
last January, all units remain. The Army will begin its fourth annual
unit rotation in June when 17 combat brigades arrive to replace those
now on duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. This will double the number of US
ground combat forces in Persian Gulf area.

Perhaps this is all a coincidence, or perhaps Bush plans a
temporary show of power to alarm Iran into granting concessions. Or
perhaps the USA will attack Iran or Syria. Bush has said that Iran is
part of an "axis of evil," and it seems unlikely that he will do nothing
during his last four years in office while insisting the nation is at
war. Presidential approval ratings rise whenever the USA attacks
another nation. Combat video can fill television screens and distract
the American people from a dying economy and the problems in Iraq.
Congressmen can excitedly plan another massive supplemental spending
bill, and drop the issue of fiscal discipline and pending national
bankruptcy.

Nevertheless, President Bush needs an excuse to attack Iran.
Outright lying was used to justify the conquest of Iraq. There was
criticism when the truth was exposed, yet no one in the Bush
administration was pressured to resign, most were promoted to higher
posts. A Clinton appointee, CIA director George Tenet, became the fall
guy. In addition, half of Americans are so poorly informed by the
corporate media that they still believe Iraq had weapons of mass
destruction and was involved in terrorism. Nevertheless, America's
allies will dismiss lies, and given America's dependence on foreign
credit for economic survival, a better option is required.

US President Franklin Roosevelt faced a similar problem in 1940.
He wanted to go to war against the Germans to aid the British. However,
70% of Americans were against another foreign war, having been duped
into World War I by President Wilson. So Roosevelt developed a plan to
provoke the Japanese to commit the first "overt act" to shock and enrage
the gullible American people to support war. There is much evidence of
this conspiracy. For example, many people know the Pentagon opened
during World War II to run the huge US military. However, the prime
contract was awarded on 11 August 1941, four months before America was
"thrust" into World War II after a "surprise" attack on Pearl Harbor. A
day after the Japanese attack, the USA declared war on Japan AND
Germany, then made the defeat of Germany a greater priority.

Few Americans know that the US Pacific Fleet was not based at
Pearl Harbor in 1941, but San Diego. Roosevelt ordered it deployed to
Hawaii for "training" in 1940 and kept it there as bait for over a year,
prompting the Pacific Fleet Admiral to resign in protest. Then he
organized an oil embargo against Japan, which resulted in the attack on
Pearl Harbor, which Roosevelt and a few others knew about in advance
since the Japanese code had been broken. This is why the valuable
American aircraft carriers slipped out of Pearl Harbor a few days before
the attack, leaving behind some World War I era battleships as targets.
This is documented in a recent book, Day of Deceit, written by a World
War II US Navy officer.

Neocons would love for Iran to commit a dastardly surprise attack.
It has been suggested that Iran's response to a major bombing attack
would be immediate retaliation by firing missiles at US bases and ships
in the Persian Gulf. It would be easy for the USA to shut off
telecommunications to Iran to prevent word of secret bombings to leak
out until Iranian missiles responded. The problem is how to keep this
secret. One option is to allow the Israelis to launch secret nighttime
bombing strikes. Only a few US Generals would need to know and issue
orders to ground US aircraft overnight for a "safety stand-down" and
shut down radars for "repair." Another option is to strike with a dozen
stealthy B-2s bombers from their base in Missouri. A more complex plan
would penetrate Iran's military command and control system
electronically, and send false messages that American bombers had hit
targets so Iranian missiles should be launched.

American GIs in the region would be surprised by a sudden Iranian
missile attack and will attest that it was unprovoked. There would be
many GI casualties and perhaps a Navy ship sunk, but Roosevelt
sacrificed 2000 GIs at Pearl Harbor for his cause. This will enrage the
American people and ensure strong support for crushing the Muslim
devils. In addition, President Bush can demand support from NATO allies
since the USA was attacked, and insist that friendly Arab nations send
troops to help defeat the Persian evildoers.

This may seem bizarre, but no one should doubt that neocon
warmongers are dreaming up justifications to attack Iran. Not only was
Pearl Harbor a conspiracy, but the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which
justified sending US troops into combat in Vietnam, was a lie as well.
More recently, genocide claims used to justify the 1999 attack on
Yugoslavia proved false, and Saddam's Hussein's "Weapons of Mass
Destruction" were never found. Therefore, one should be skeptical of
news of a "surprise" Iranian attack. No one will offer a rational
explanation, except that Iranians are "evil," part of the "axis of evil"
President Bush warned about. Anyone who questions whether Iran attacked
first will be labeled a traitor who doesn't "support the troops."
Coincidentally, American warplanes and forces will be ready to quickly
respond, extra aircraft carriers will be offshore and extra Army units
just arrived. Americans will rally around the President and America's
perpetual war for perpetual peace will continue.

An attack or invasion of Iran would prove disastrous for the
average American, although profitable for defense contractors and oil
companies. It may be the final straw that breaks the dollar, causing it
to fall rapidly as the USA borrows hundreds of billions more from aboard
to fund another war, money to be allocated by corrupt Congressmen led by
Senator Ted Stevens. Inflation will soar to double digits while the
economy sinks into a recession. Finally, an attack or invasion of Iran
may stall, leaving US troops scattered around the Middle East vulnerable
to counterattacks. Hopefully, this nightmare will never happen.
However, there is a cult of neocons thinking up justifications to attack
Iran. Engineering a "surprise" Iranian attack is the best option.

Carlton Meyer editor@...

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