Saturday, September 16, 2006

War with Iran - Before or After the Election?

I guess it all depends on Republican fortunes in the upcoming contests. There seems to be little doubt that the Bushoviks are running the same sort of scams that delivered us into a war in Iraq. From McClatchy we get the details.
Some officials at the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the State Department said they're concerned that the offices of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney may be receiving a stream of questionable information that originates with Iranian exiles, including a discredited arms dealer, Manucher Ghorbanifar, who played a role in the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal.

Officials at all three agencies said they suspect that the dubious information may include claims that Iran directed Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group, to kidnap two Israeli soldiers in July; that Iran's nuclear program is moving faster than generally believed; and that the Iranian people are eager to join foreign efforts to overthrow their theocratic rulers.

The officials said there is no reliable intelligence to support any of those assertions and some that contradicts all three.

The officials said they fear a replay of the administration's mishandling of what turned out to be bogus information from Iraqi exiles in the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, documented earlier this month in a Senate intelligence committee report....

..... Adding to the unease, Rumsfeld's office earlier this year set up a new Iranian directorate, reported to be under the leadership of neoconservatives who played a role in planning the Iraq war.

Current and former officials said the Pentagon's Iranian directorate has been headed by Abram Shulsky. Shulsky also was the head of the now-defunct Office of Special Plans, whose role in allegedly manipulating Iraq intelligence is under investigation by the Pentagon's inspector general.

Some officials say they fear the office, whose existence was first reported by the Los Angeles Times, is being used to funnel intelligence from Ghorbanifar, the arms dealer, and an Iranian exile group known as the Mujahedeen Khalq.
Same people, same M.O. This time, there is an army of 150,000 Americans who will find themselves caught between a Shiite rock in Iraq and a Shiite hardplace in Iran if they do. Not that the Bushoviks are much concerned about it. Fucking over the troops is a Bushovik way of life. It is the unintended consequences that are a problem because the only result of grand Bushovik schemes is unintended consequences and they are never prepared to deal with them. Imagine the worst, we will probably see it. Dealing with sky high gas prices will be the least of your worries

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