This, my fellow Kossacks, is a scary, scary article. The article, "A Bush pre-election strike on Iran?" is from the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) at www.globalresearch.ca
The author Wayne Madsen, served in the NSA under Ronald Reagan.
According to White House and Washington Beltway insiders, the Bush administration, worried that it could lose the presidential election to Senator John F. Kerry, has initiated plans to launch a military strike on Iran's top Islamic leadership, its nuclear reactor at Bushehr on the Persian Gulf, and key nuclear targets throughout the country, including the main underground research site at Natanz in central Iran and another in Isfahan. Targets of the planned U.S. attack reportedly include mosques in Tehran, Qom, and Isfahan known by the U.S. to headquarter Iran's top mullahs.
The Iran attack plan was reportedly drawn up after internal polling indicated that if the Bush administration launched a so-called anti-terrorist attack on Iran some two weeks before the election, Bush would be assured of a landslide win against Kerry.
Wow. Can this possibly be for real? Would the Bush administration stoop so low as to launch ANOTHER pre-emptive attack right before the election? Would the country rally to his side? Or would people be able to see through this and question why he couldn't have just waited a week or two until after the election?
Please read the full article here: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/MAD410A.html
But the excerpts continue:
According to White House sources, the USS John F. Kennedy was deployed to the Arabian Sea to coordinate the attack on Iran. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld discussed the Kennedy's role in the planned attack on Iran when he visited the ship in the Arabian Sea on October 9. Rumsfeld [discussed this with] defense ministers of U.S. coalition partners, including those of Albania, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Iraq, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mongolia, Poland, Qatar, Romania, and Ukraine.
Yet ironically, some big members of the "Coalition of the Willing" aren't so willing to take this next step.
America's primary ally in Iraq, the United Kingdom, did not attend the planning session because it reportedly disagrees with a military strike on Iran. London also suspects the U.S. wants to move British troops from Basra in southern Iraq to the Baghdad area to help put down an expected surge in Sh'ia violence in Sadr City and other Sh'ia areas in central Iraq when the U.S. attacks Iran as well as clear the way for a U.S. military strike across the Iraqi-Iranian border aimed at securing the huge Iranian oil installations in Abadan. U.S. allies South Korea, Australia, Kuwait, Jordan, Italy, Netherlands, and Japan were also left out of the USS John F. Kennedy planning discussions because of their reported opposition to any strike on Iran.
Madsen also notes that Israel has been supplied with 500 "bunker-busting" bombs for the attack. It seems that the Bush administration thinks teaming with Israel may some how give them more cover in justifying this attack, but it seems to me this will just make the situation even messier, sparking an Iranian missle strike against Israel in response. Madsen also mentions that morale aboard the USS Kennedy is at "an all-time low", which he attributes to the ships knowledge that they may soon be engaged in a massive strike.
Madsen ends the article by asserting there is extreme tension between the White House and intelligence services, writing:
The White House leaks about the pre-emptive strike may have been prompted by warnings from the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency that an attack on Iran will escalate out of control. Intelligence circles report that both intelligence agencies are in open revolt against the Bush White House.
White House sources also claimed they are "terrified" that Bush wants to start a dangerous war with Iran prior to the election and fear that such a move will trigger dire consequences for the entire world. The sources also report that a draft text of a proposed televised Bush speech to the nation to explain the attack has been prepared.
Wow. All I have to say is wow. If there is any chance that this is true, we need to get a buzz going NOW so that if, God forbid, we do attack Iran, people will have doubt in their heads, and will question Bush's motives rather then falling in line to support him.