The Iran Attack and Aftermath:“Whoopie! We’re All Gonna Die!”

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“Yes. We’re going to hit Iran, big time. Whatever political discussions that are going on is window dressing and perhaps even a red herring. I see what’s going on below deck here in the hangars and weapons bays. And I have a sick feeling about how it’s all going to turn out.”

– a Landing Signal Officer in an aircraft carrier attack group, in the Gulf of Hormuz, in a telephone call to a friend quoted in an article posted then removed from the internet September 13, 2007.


There’s every indication that the Bush administration intends to attack Iran before leaving office. The military preparations are in full swing. According to former CIA official Philip Giraldi, writing in the American Conservative in July 2005, “The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons… As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States. Several senior Air Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly appalled at the implications of what they are doing–that Iran is being set up for an unprovoked nuclear attack–but no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections.”

(Recall how a “senior advisor” to Bush told journalist Ron Suskind in summer 2002 that people like Suskind were “in what we call the reality-based community” — people who ‘”believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” But, he claimed, “’That’s not the way the world really works anymore. We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” This mentality can only be compared to the 1930s fascists’ celebration of “the triumph of the will” over reason. More recently Robert Draper in his book Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush has quoted Bush himself as stating, “You can’t learn lessons by reading. Or at least I couldn’t. I learned by doing.” I doubt he reads IAEA reports or even the U.S. intelligence reports that indicate Iran is a decade away from the capacity to produce a nuclear weapon. By all indications he doesn’t want to read anything that might challenge what he plans to do.)

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