Is Iran being set up?
CounterPunch
by Gary Leupp
07/27/05
[T]he plan for the Iran attack is for it to come quickly, while the nation is in a state of shock -- apparently in some near-future scenario -- so that all those brewing scandals get placed on the back burners. The propaganda set-up's already been performed as well as possible. There's a list of charges against Iran, just like there was against Iraq. If they happen, President Bush will explain the Iran attacks as strikes reluctantly undertaken, as a last resort, to protect Americans from terrorist threats emanating out of Iran. The STRATCOM guys will know that's not true, and have to live with the knowledge. Or else they can do what some have apparently done so far: speak out, if anonymously, and just maybe force their commanders to abort this criminal war against Iran...
http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp07272005.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Gary Leupp
07/27/05
[T]he plan for the Iran attack is for it to come quickly, while the nation is in a state of shock -- apparently in some near-future scenario -- so that all those brewing scandals get placed on the back burners. The propaganda set-up's already been performed as well as possible. There's a list of charges against Iran, just like there was against Iraq. If they happen, President Bush will explain the Iran attacks as strikes reluctantly undertaken, as a last resort, to protect Americans from terrorist threats emanating out of Iran. The STRATCOM guys will know that's not true, and have to live with the knowledge. Or else they can do what some have apparently done so far: speak out, if anonymously, and just maybe force their commanders to abort this criminal war against Iran...
http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp07272005.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 28. Jul, 19:28