Hersh: US planning to nuke Iran for real

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i would argue that without 9/11 the iraq war never would have happened. but the point is he had the ten years 1991-2001 to point back to. given that this administration "prioritized" iraq (and lost credibility after being "wrong") no one is going to let him step on the gas that quickly this time.

― someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Hmm. The first thing that flashed through my mind was "Oh no, all of those people!"

― Dan (Different Strokes, Etc) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link

on the other hand, if they hadn't screwed up the post-war so badly in Iraq, both Dubya and US citizens would probably be ready to move on Iran now.

― someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link

that was pretty cheap dan

― --+-+-++++-+, Monday, 10 April 2006 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link

I have no faith that any elected official will successfully stop Dubya from bombing whoever he wants.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link

that was pretty cheap dan

Oh, I know.

― Dan (Couldn't Stop Myself) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link

i think its pretty fair to worry a recent tragedy which claimed 2,800 lives causing a future tragedy which will claim 100,000 lives

― -++-+-+, Monday, 10 April 2006 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes, that is fair.

― Dan (... Where Are You Going With This?) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link

continuing my policy of being an incomprehensible ass on ile today?

― -+++-+--+, Monday, 10 April 2006 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link

I remember sitting around my apartment around 2000 during one of the many no-fly zone retaliatory bombings (Americans taking out anti-aircraft weapons) against Iraq thinking about how it was just a matter of time. Some American administration was bound to invade Iraq eventually, given the ongoing line of thinking.

Iran's somewhat different in that we don't have quite the same public-facing ongoing campaign and it's been rhetoric so far...

― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link

it's interesting that the iranian reaction to this has been dismissive. which was also how they reacted to the hersh story last year saying there were american special forces teams already scouting things out in iran. i think it means they're reading all of this as scare tactics, and they don't wanna look scared.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link

here's a pretty sparse wikipedia entry on part of the US's glorious efforts in iranian politics to date - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVAK

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link

and what a wonderfully successful series of coherent and forward-thinking policies it has been...

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link

All Cheney really needs is one nuked US city to get things rolling his way.

Let's have fun--list all the reasons Cheney wouldn't allow this:

― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:44 (eighteen years ago) link

1) harry whittington stands in front of a tank

― +-+--+-++, Monday, 10 April 2006 19:46 (eighteen years ago) link

the reasons Cheney wouldn't allow a US city to be nuked? I can only think of one ("too close to undisclosed location")

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:46 (eighteen years ago) link

3) Damage to corporate assets

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link

4) potential for interruption of steady supply of fresh, nutritious human babies

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link

also possible transplant hearts

― +--++-+-+-, Monday, 10 April 2006 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link

'mr cheney, im sorry but, well, i dont know how to say it, im afraid the only heart with the same AB+++ bloodtype as yours was... in detroit... when the bomb dropped....'

'noooooo!!!!'

― -++--+-+-, Monday, 10 April 2006 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link

just another day... in the twilight zone...

― +++-+-+--, Monday, 10 April 2006 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link

oh shit its 5:00!!!!!!! p34c3 suck4z

― -++-+-+-, Monday, 10 April 2006 19:59 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

good ol' Sy Hersh, source of so many nightmares

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

and the nightmare of unnamed sources

― don weiner (don weiner), Thursday, 6 July 2006 01:58 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

Cheeky! (Ahmadinejad calls for a live TV debate with Bush)

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Ahmadinejad blamed "special concessions" granted to the United States and Britain as "the root cause of all the problems in the world."

Too strong.

"At the Security Council, where they have to protect security, they enjoy the veto right. If anybody confronts them, there is no place to take complaints to."

Whether we like it or not, Mahmoud OTM.

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 12:19 (seventeen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

"Pompeo Blames"
"U.S. Claims"
"President Is Forced"
The educated class are the most indoctrinated, their warped minds trying to sell yet another war. Feral beasts baying in material comfort. pic.twitter.com/pAY7zSEu9a
— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) June 14, 2019

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 June 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link

"president is forced to pick his strategy"

well, that should go well

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 14 June 2019 20:29 (four years ago) link

What's wrong with 'Pompeo Blames' and 'US Claims'?

― Frederik B, Sunday, 16 June 2019 13:01 (four years ago) link

'indeed!'

― anvil, Sunday, 16 June 2019 13:02 (four years ago) link

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