EXCLUSIVE: To Provoke War, Cheney Considered Proposal To Dress Up Navy Seals As Iranians And Shoot A

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Speaking at the Campus Progress journalism conference earlier this month, Seymour Hersh — a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for The New Yorker — revealed that Bush administration officials held a meeting recently in the Vice President’s office to discuss ways to provoke a war with Iran.

In Hersh’s most recent article, he reports that this meeting occurred in the wake of the overblown incident in the Strait of Hormuz, when a U.S.

carrier almost shot at a few small Iranian speedboats. The “meeting took place in the Vice-President’s office.

‘The subject was how to create a casus belli between Tehran and Washington,’” according to one of Hersh’s sources.

During the journalism conference event, I asked Hersh specifically about this meeting and if he could elaborate on what occurred. Hersh explained that, during the meeting in Cheney’s office, an idea was considered to dress up Navy Seals as Iranians, put them on fake Iranian speedboats, and shoot at them.

This idea, intended to provoke an Iran war, was ultimately rejected:

HERSH: There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war. The one that interested me the most was why don’t we build — we in our shipyard — build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up.

Might cost some lives. And it was rejected because you can’t have Americans killing Americans. That’s the kind of — that’s the level of stuff we’re talking about. Provocation. But that was rejected.

Watch it:

Hersh argued that one of the things the Bush administration learned during the encounter in the Strait of Hormuz was that, “if you get the right incident, the American public will support” it.

“Look, is it high school? Yeah,” Hersh said. “Are we playing high school with you know 5,000 nuclear warheads in our arsenal? Yeah we are. We’re playing, you know, who’s the first guy to run off the highway with us and Iran.

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[edit on 1-8-2008 by 12m8keall2c]

That is crazy stuff. We need to be preventing a nuclear war and here these idiots are trying to start one. You would think that they have no clue it could destroy all of humanity, it doesnt even seem to phase their pathetic greed driven minds. All they care about is gaining for themselves they will destroy an entire planet to be in control of it. Thats just freakin retarded.

[edit on 1-8-2008 by caballero]

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if this is proven true,seeking an impeachment is not enough, perhaps a life setence is more appropriate.. their evil plot would have cost the lives of a thousands american military service men/women and perhaps a million iranian civilians

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Your right, if they start war with iran, that will be it.. Whats goin through these peoples heads, there are f**king crazy, excuse my language but something has to be done before its to late..

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