Crooks & Liars has the video. Retired US Air Force Colonel Sam Gardiner appeared on CNN this afternoon, where he said that it is well known that US military forces are already inside Iran conducting intelligence gathering operations and training potential partisans to fight on our side when full scale military ops occur. Gardiner has published a
report which can be found on the website of
The Century Foundation.
Digby lays out Gardiner's bona fides here. He appears to be one to be trusted when speaking of military matters.
Watch as Wolf Blitzer of CNN tries repeatedly to minimize Col. Gardiner's flat assertion that US troops are already in Iran.
Gardiner says the plans for large scale military operations against Iran have been sent to the White House by the Defense Department. I fear this might indicate an enormously serious elevation of attack planning from the contingency phase to the operational or pre-operational phase.
More than 3 years ago, on the evening we learned that King George had in fact launched his war against Iraq, I wrote on a friend's whiteboard: "Iran is next." It's still there, and it's apparently still true.
This Bush fellow is a maniac in every sense of the word. If you have not written your senators and representative to voice and encourage opposition to his NSA wiretap legislation and his torture legislation, you know what to do.
But more important than that is to vote Democrat in November.