Iran Watch
30 September 2007 2:45 pm by Taylor Marsh
I don’t call him Slick Mitt for nothin’. The man has earned the title. Thanks to my good friend Cliff Schecter over at Brave New Films for this one.
And speaking of Iran, Seymour Hersh strikes again.
During a secure videoconference that took place early this summer, the President
told Ryan Crocker, the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, that he was thinking of hitting
Iranian targets across the border and that the British “were on board.”
At that point, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice interjected that there
was a need to proceed carefully, because of the ongoing diplomatic track.
Bush ended by instructing Crocker to tell Iran to stop interfering in Iraq
or it would face American retribution.At a White House meeting with Cheney this summer, according to a former senior
intelligence official, it was agreed that, if limited strikes on Iran were
carried out, the Administration could fend off criticism by arguing that they
were a defensive action to save soldiers in Iraq. If Democrats objected, the
Administration could say, “Bill Clinton did the same thing; he conducted
limited strikes in Afghanistan, the Sudan, and in Baghdad to protect American
lives.” The former intelligence official added, “There is a desperate
effort by Cheney et al. to bring military action to Iran as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, the politicians are saying, ‘You can’t do it, because
every Republican is going to be defeated, and we’re only one fact from
going over the cliff in Iraq.’ But Cheney doesn’t give a rat’s
ass about the Republican worries, and neither does the President.”
John has the video of Hersh on CNN. Don’t miss “Madame Curveball” either.
It’s also been brought to my attention that the book “Islamic Imperialism” has been sent to dozens and dozens of Protestant churches.
In April of 2007, a number of pastors from across the United Church of Christ were calling me asking me why the Institute on Religion and Democracy had sent them a copy of Ephraim Karsh’s book Islamic Imperialism. Within a week, I learned that not only had UCC pastors received a free copy of this book as a gift from the IRD, so also had Lutheran, United Methodist, Presbyterian, and Episcopal clergy. UMNexus is now reporting that the IRD mailed this book to 100,000 clergy across the US, at a reported cost of over $1.5 million. … ..
If you didn’t see Fox’s special on Iran as a ticking time bomb this weekend, hosted by former Bushie and Iraq incompetent Dan Senor, then you’re just not getting the full throttle picture on this subject. It makes the Lieberman-Kyl amendment vote by Democrats look even dumber and quite a bit more dangerous.
