Report: U.S. Conducting Secret Missions Inside Iran

[cornermouse]

Kickoff in a War in Iran? Sort of looks that way to me.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050116/ts_nm/iran_usa_newyorker_dc

Report: U.S. Conducting Secret Missions Inside Iran

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has been conducting secret reconnaissance missions inside Iran to help identify potential nuclear, chemical and missile targets, The New Yorker magazine reported Sunday.

... One former high-level intelligence official told The New Yorker, "This is a war against terrorism, and Iraq (news - web sites) is just one campaign. The Bush administration is looking at this as a huge war zone. Next, we're going to have the Iranian campaign."

[Dems Will Win]

1. A friend of mine's son told her in November his Special Ops unit

was headed for Iran. Not Iraq, Iran. He made that clear.

[oneighty]

8. Hard to believe

special ops guy admits to that.

I sure would not pass that story around.

Just my opinion. He could get into serious trouble.

Loose lips sink ships.

180

[cornermouse]

9. I had heard that they also sent military personnel to Columbia

a while back.

Is there something we can do to stop Bush? If he keeps attacking all these middle eastern countries, I think he could be the cause of a real "final solution" for the entire planet.

[Nothing Without Hope]

11. Wow - I'm surprised he wasn't told to keep it secret

This is just horrible. Congress passed the unconstitutional law that gives Bush (he thinks) the right to invade any country he wants without Congressional approval. Looks like he intends to do it again. Will he be stoppedthis time?

[Dems Will Win]

17. Of course he was told to keep it secret

But he was talking to his mommy.

It happens all the time. Family members may hear where they are headed off for even if it is supposed to be secret.

And I don't believe I should keep it secret. Bush must be stopped and early warning is one way to do that.

[Nothing Without Hope]

19. I was trying (unsuccessfully) for sarcasm, but your point is well-taken

It also goes to show how in this age of "the internets" one pair of loose lips can sure spread the word a long way.

[Tinoire]

14. You're the second person I've heard that from

The first person, a retired officer, I trust implicitly.

[Nikepallas]

2. Why won't people wake up and see this is a religious war trying to

wipe out a culture.

[Dems Will Win]

3. Bush said it was a CRUSADE...

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[Nikepallas]

6. He did? Missed it BUT why didn't the media pick up on it and scream it

I know I know the hush money BUSHCO is paying with the threats....


BUT it dives me nuts hearing my neighbors say I'm crazy for saying it is a religious war. that I'm unpatriotic.

[Dems Will Win]

18. He said it in October 2001 and the media did scream

and he kind of apologized I think...

[NYC]

20. It was no secret when he said it.

It was loud and clear. You just happened to miss it.

Speaking spontaneously, without the aid of advisers or speechwriters, he put a word on the new American purpose that both shaped it and gave it meaning. "This crusade," he said, "this war on terrorism."

From: http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040920&s=carroll

I'm sure you can find lots of others using Google.

[Rick Myers]

5. I smell profits in WAR STOCKS this summer!!!

:grr:

[Nothing Without Hope]

7. Huge story! This thread is a DUPE - earlier one here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2959361

self-edited to correct the link to the right earlier thread for this report -- sorry!

[cornermouse]

10. Okay. Sorry. I didn't know that one existed.

[Nothing Without Hope]

13. sorry - gave you the wrong link. I've corrected it now

[Nothing Without Hope]

16. Actually, it's such a big story that dual posting isn't bad IMO

More people will see it! But there do need to be cross-references if both threads are kept. I'll go link to your thread on the other one now. I'm not going to alert the mods, we'll see what they do on their own. Whatever that is, all the comments need to be kept.

[StClone]

12. Lakoff says that Bush is the father figure for the nation

In the Conservative world W is protecting us by attacking Iraq, and probably Iran, by acting like a strong father figure -- paranoid, dry drunk, dangerous, self-destructing and unaccomplished at any thing but calamity father figure. The Righties see this as their great father figure hierarchy. Do they know that this belief system is ages old, destructive and dysfunctional?

[BigMindTinyHead]

15. Some secret

Then last secret I heard about wasn't.