The March to Iran.......

Seymour Hersh's latest article highlights the repackaging of the Bush administration's rhetoric when it comes to Iran. He points out:

Now the emphasis is on “surgical” strikes on Revolutionary Guard Corps facilities in Tehran and elsewhere, which, the Administration claims, have been the source of attacks on Americans in Iraq. What had been presented primarily as a counter-proliferation
mission has been reconceived as counterterrorism.

Sounds to me that the administration is changing the justification to possibly attack Iran from the threat of Iran having a nuclear weapon to the idea that Iran is helping the "terrorists". Remember how many times the Iraq war justification had switched, from us being moments away from a nuclear attack by Iraq to" he gassed his own people", to "we are liberating and bringing them democracy". Knowing this administration's history of distorting facts and changing war rational one has to question the actual impact Iran has actually played in Iraq. Always keep in mind that Iran really is pushing for a friendly Shite alliance in Iraq........
Hersh, later in the article provess my point. He writes:

Maliki said, according to the Washington Post, that Iraq’s relations with the Iranians had “improved to the point that they are not interfering in our internal affairs.” Iran is so entrenched in Iraqi Shiite circles that any “proxy war” could be as much through the Iraqi state as against it. The crux of the Bush Administration’s strategic dilemma is that its decision to back a Shiite-led government after the fall of Saddam has empowered Iran, and made it impossible to exclude Iran from the Iraqi political scene.
He also points out :
Many in the present Iraqi Shiite leadership, including prominent members of the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, spent years in exile in Iran

So in other words Iranian interference may actually be helping the current Iraqi government! It is obvious Miliki does not consider Iran a problem and has close ties with Iran. As I have said before we actually helped Iran by empowring the Shites.


Hersh interviewed a retired CIA official for this article. This I find to be very interesting:

“They’re moving everybody to the Iran desk,” one recently retired C.I.A. official said. “They’re dragging in a lot of analysts and ramping up everything. It’s just like the fall of 2002”—the months before the invasion of Iraq, when the Iraqi Operations Group became the most important in the agency. He added, “The guys now running the Iranian program have limited direct experience with Iran. In the event of an attack, how will the Iranians react? They will react, and the Administration has not thought it all the way through.”

So the CIA is being called to focus on Iran as a main priority just like Iraq in 2002, and to top it off it sounds like Bushies are being assigned in the CIA to work on the Iranian program!! Bushies with limited experience in their area of expertise...... and of course the administration is not considering what will happen and how Iran will react, just like Iraq. The results of bombing Iran will be much worse than the result of the Iraqi occupation.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former national-security adviser pointed out the worst in the
Hersh article.

Iran would likely react to an American attack “by intensifying the conflict in Iraq and also in Afghanistan, their neighbors, and that could draw in Pakistan.
We will be stuck in a regional war for twenty years.”

This is a great article, I highly suggest every one read what Hersh has compiled.

The Guardian is reporting on a similar theme that Hersh details. They describe the situation as a proxy war soon turning into a direct conflict. The Guardian points out that America is planning on establishing a military base five miles away from the Iranian boarder to block weapons smuggling to Shite militias.

To further ratchet up the war atmosphere Freedom's watch who had previously ran an advertising campaign supporting the surge, and has already released Ahmadinejad is a terrorist advertisements is planning on a full scale campaign against Iran. This group recently met with American Enterprise Institute members. The radical right has a whole propaganda machine ready to sell the threat of Iran, and all evidence leads to the high probability that this administration will try to pull this off before they leave office.