Journalist (Hersh): U.S. planning for possible attack on Iran

[NewHampshireDem]

http://us.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/16/hersh.iran/index.html

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Bush administration has been carrying out secret reconnaissance missions to learn about nuclear, chemical and missile sites in Iran in preparation for possible airstrikes there, journalist Seymour Hersh said Sunday.

The effort has been under way at least since last summer, Hersh said on CNN's "Late Edition."

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Iran has refused to dismantle its nuclear program, which it insists is legal and is intended solely for civilian purposes. (Full story)

Hersh said U.S. officials were involved in "extensive planning" for a possible attack -- "much more than we know."

"The goal is to identify and isolate three dozen, and perhaps more, such targets that could be destroyed by precision strikes and short-term commando raids," he wrote in "The New Yorker" magazine, which published his article in editions that will be on newsstands Monday.

Here we go again.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. This is what I sent my congress critter

Dear Congresswoman,

Maybe the stenography corp has not reported on the PNAC plan. But that does not mean that we, the people, have not found out a thing about it. This story is right out of the PNAC agenda, as in phase two.

I wonder what pap, err propagan... err orwellian language will be told to the people to sell this new war? I wonder how many more of our young sons and daughters will die on foreign soil for the dream of domination of a few men. I wonder how long willl it take for the Democratic Party to finally realize, the government has been coopted by radicals...

Anyway, if you have not read the PNAC plan, do yourself a favor and do such. Maybe then our future war with North Korea will not be too surprising. Nor will our attack on Europe, or the disolution of all alliances... or... WW III, which is what they want and what they need. After all what they want is world domination, pure and simple.

Oh and as an aside, these operations are akin to a declaration of war on a sovereign state, not that International Law or standards matter to most people in Congress any more, regardless of so called party affiliation. Yes some of us are still smarting over the, we cannot pass a law forbiding torture. How long until that torture is used against US Citizens? Oh and will you allow Patriot II, III, IV et al? Have we indeed crossed the Rubicon?

[NVMojo]

2. one of the last real journalists in America speaks ...we need to listen ..

this is not a surprise either ...read the PNAC's agenda...

[Moderator]

3. duplicate topic, please discuss here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1156226