{"id":198904,"date":"2007-09-30T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/30\/sy-hersh-details-bush-cheneys-plans-for-attack-on-iraq\/"},"modified":"2007-09-30T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T04:01:00","slug":"sy-hersh-details-bush-cheneys-plans-for-attack-on-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/30\/sy-hersh-details-bush-cheneys-plans-for-attack-on-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Sy Hersh Details Bush\/Cheney&#8217;s Plans for Attack on Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2007\/10\/08\/071008fa_fact_hersh\">the Bush administration is changing their justification for an attack on Iran<\/a>.  No one is believing their nuclear weapons claims (gee, I wonder why?), so now they are claiming that Iran is actively arming and supporting unsavory and violent elements in Iraq (like the Malaki government, I guess).<\/p>\n<p>The explosively formed projectile claims are bogus.  The IRA was making these in Irish basements 30 years ago, and they have found workshops where they are being made.<\/p>\n<p>Explosives are from the unsecured ammunition dumps in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>And then, there is the issue that any US attack will secure the position of the Iranian government for the next 20 years, as Saddam&#8217;s attack did 25 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t see Congress doing anything to stop him, and absent that, the only possibility of stopping this is a mutiny of the general officer corps, which is potentially far worse than an attack on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>As I have stated before, I believe that the <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/bush-intends-to-use-nuclear-weapons.html\">US intends to use nuclear weapons in this attack<\/a>, and the long term consequences of this are catastrophic (the short term consequences are $200\/bbl oil).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the Bush administration is changing their justification for an attack on Iran. No one is believing their nuclear weapons claims (gee, I wonder why?), so now they are claiming that Iran is actively arming and supporting unsavory and violent elements in Iraq (like the Malaki government, I guess). The explosively formed projectile &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1182,1034,1063,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-george-w-bush","category-iran","category-iraq","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}