Gates Joins the liars and becomes one himself:
Even so, Robert Gates, the Defense Secretary, said, "We are not looking for excuse to go to war with Iran, we are not planning a war with Iran."
He 's not planning a war with Iran. He's just setting up a war council to attack Iran within 24 hours of Bush's order.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Despite the Bush administration's insistence it has no plans to go to war with Iran, a Pentagon panel has been created to plan a bombing attack that could be implemented within 24 hours of getting the go-ahead from President George W. Bush, The New Yorker magazine reported in its latest issue.
Reuters
But of course, this is just a contigency, right? After all there is NOTHING that could be the trigger to attack Iran, right?
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.
American Conservative in 2005
Makes you wonder how Bush and company could have known, in 2005, about a terrorist attack due to happen any day now, doesn't it? But it's not specific! It's not like they know what KIND of attack might happen, right?
Reporting for Newsweek in a web exclusive, Michael Isikoff writes, "While planning for domestic terror attacks is not new, the focus on IEDs in this weekend’s exercise seems at least tacit recognition that the wave of such attacks that have been killing soldiers and civilians in Iraq and to a lesser extent Afghanistan could spread to the United States."
High-level officials in the administration and other key government posts will take part in the hours-long "tabletop" exercise described as "part of the administration's efforts to test the policies, plans and procedures to protect the American people," Stanzel said.
He stressed that the exercise "is not based on any current or real threat, but it's an exercise on hypothetical IED (improvised explosive device) attacks."
IED ATTACKS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES?
That's what the government was doing YESTERDAY. Rehearsing for a large scale terrorist attack on the United States involving the EXACT KIND OF WEAPONS that Bush has been telling us for WEEKS, come from the Iranians. FALSELY, telling us, that they come from the Iranians, it turns out.
But that doesn't matter:
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.-American Conservative, 2005
Now, how do you suppose that "terrorists" will set off IEDS all over the United States ON CUE, so that Bush's propaganda generates a groundswell support for an attack on Iran? HMM?
Well, as of right now, we may see a REVOLT in the ranks of the military if Bush orders an attack on Iran:
SOME of America’s most senior military commanders are prepared to resign if the White House orders a military strike against Iran, according to highly placed defence and intelligence sources.
Sunday Times
So it sure looks like Georgie needs a whole lot of murdered Americans to launch his war, doesn't it?
Our ONLY HOPE, people, is that whoever it is tasked with CUEING the "terrorists," will instead go to Congress and have Bush and Cheney removed and ARRESTED. Frankly, I can hardly believe that anything like this could possibly succeed. I HOPE that Bush is being watched for his "go ahead."
For those of you skeptical about removing Bush and Cheney, I'm not considering a public circus to remove them. I'm thinking more along the lines of closed joint session attended by the Supreme Court and the Joint Chiefs. I hope to GOD that if the above has been planned, that there is evidence of it. And I'm not thinking about hearings dragging on for weeks and months. This is an emergency. We need these guys out of office immediately.
Ordering the murder of Americans to stage a phony "terrorist attack" has got to be the most despicable act a traitor could do. It's literally waging war against America from the Oval office.