Topic: Nuclear warfare
Seymour Hersh's latest article, The Next Act, shows that the Cheney gang is going full steam ahead on its plan to nuke Iran, and spewing a wide assortment of lame excuses for doing so. One of the worst of these excuses is that IRAN is to blame for the chaos in Iraq, and that unleashing chaos in Iran would contribute to stability in Iraq! However, it should be clear by now that Cheney's wrecking crew did everything in their power to unleash chaos in Iraq, that Rumsfeld took the fall for Cheney when this goal was accomplished, and that he used the Democratic victory in the election as a pretext for his resignation. It's also evident that the Cheney gang must not have any good reasons for attacking Iran, considering the quality of the ones they've offered so far.
The CIA, according to the Hersh piece, has found no evidence that Iran has a nuke weapons program, and warned against concluding that Iran is just much better at concealing such activity than anyone else has ever been. Predictably, Cheney responded to this report with something like the usual "we just disagree," and trotted out the usual "inside source" which claims to know that Iran is working on The Bomb, but without providing enough information for the CIA to investigate him. The DIA, which includes a virulent apocalypse-mongering faction (including Gen. "Crusader" Boykin himself), also not surprisingly disagrees with the CIA.
There are also signs in the article that Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is playing the part of the Islamic counterpart to Christian Fundy Bush, and that has agreed to do a dance of death (civilization's death) with the Cheney gang, supposedly in order to "fulfill" some supposed Islamic prophecy and thus hasten the appearance of a major Islamic religious figure. EIR's Jeffrey Steinberg has written that Ahmadinejab is a foolish Synarchist tool, as is the typical neo-con.
