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Date: August 30, 2007 11:26:38 PM PDT
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Subject: *NEXT WEEK* Cheney Puts His Finger on the Trigger for War
with Iran
http://coverthistory.blogspot.com/
Marketing Campaign for Iran
War to Begin in September?
Today I received a message from a friend who has excellent
connections in Washington and whose information has often been
prescient. According to this report, as in 2002, the rollout will
start after Labor Day, with a big kickoff on September 11. My
friend had spoken to someone in one of the leading neo-conservative
institutions. He summarized what he was told this way:
They [the source's institution] have "instructions" (yes, that was
the word used) from the Office of the Vice-President to roll out a
campaign for war with Iran in the week after Labor Day; it will be
coordinated with the American Enterprise Institute, the Wall Street
Journal, the Weekly Standard, Commentary, Fox, and the usual
suspects. It will be heavy sustained assault on the airwaves,
designed to knock public sentiment into a position from which a war
can be maintained. Evidently they don't think they'll ever get
majority support for this -- they want something like 35-40 percent
support, which in their book is "plenty."
Post Labor Day Product Rollout: War with Iran
http://icga.blogspot.com/2007/08/post-labor-day-product-rollout-war-
with.html
On September 7, 2002, The New York Times White House correspondent
Elizabeth Bushmiller treated readers to an explanation of how the
Bush administration planned to sell the invasion of Iraq:
"White House officials said today that the administration was
following a meticulously planned strategy to persuade the public,
the Congress and the allies of the need to confront the threat from
Saddam Hussein.
The rollout of the strategy this week, they said, was planned long
before President Bush's vacation in Texas last month. It was not
hastily concocted, they insisted, after some prominent Republicans
began to raise doubts about moving against Mr. Hussein and
administration officials made contradictory statements about the
need for weapons inspectors in Iraq.
The White House decided, they said, that even with the appearance
of disarray it was still more advantageous to wait until after
Labor Day to kick off their plan.
''From a marketing point of view,'' said Andrew H. Card Jr., the
White House chief of staff who is coordinating the effort, ''you
don't introduce new products in August.''
A centerpiece of the strategy, White House officials said, is to
use Mr. Bush's speech on Sept. 11 to help move Americans toward
support of action against Iraq, which could come early next year."
THIS September 11, we will have the reports from General David
Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, filtered through a White
House drafted report.
I watched Vice-President Cheney's speech to the Veterans of Foreign
Wars on August 26, 2002, in the residence where I was staying in
Kabul, Afghanistan. I heard Cheney deliver his famous falsehood:
The Iraqi regime has in fact been very busy enhancing its
capabilities in the field of chemical and biological agents. And
they continue to pursue the nuclear program they began so many
years ago. These are not weapons for the purpose of defending Iraq;
these are offensive weapons for the purpose of inflicting death on
a massive scale, developed so that Saddam can hold the threat over
the head of anyone he chooses, in his own region or beyond.
We know the results.
THIS year, on August 28, President Bush spoke to another veterans'
group, the American Legion. He called Iran "the world's leading
state sponsor of terrorism," whose "active pursuit of technology
that could lead to nuclear weapons threatens to put a region
already known for instability and violence under the shadow of a
nuclear holocaust." He concluded:
Iran's actions threaten the security of nations everywhere. And
that is why the United States is rallying friends and allies around
the world to isolate the regime, to impose economic sanctions. We
will confront this danger before it is too late.
But this apparently is just test marketing, like Cheney's 2002
speech. After all "from a marketing point of view, you don't
introduce new products in August."
Today I received a message from a friend who has excellent
connections in Washington and whose information has often been
prescient. According to this report, as in 2002, the rollout will
start after Labor Day, with a big kickoff on September 11.
My friend had spoken to someone in one of the leading neo-
conservative institutions. He summarized what he was told this way:
They [the source's institution] have "instructions" (yes, that was
the word used) from the Office of the Vice-President to roll out a
campaign for war with Iran in the week after Labor Day; it will be
coordinated with the American Enterprise Institute, the Wall Street
Journal, the Weekly Standard, Commentary, Fox, and the usual
suspects. It will be heavy sustained assault on the airwaves,
designed to knock public sentiment into a position from which a war
can be maintained. Evidently they don't think they'll ever get
majority support for this--they want something like 35-40 percent
support, which in their book is "plenty."
Of course I cannot verify this report.
But besides all the other pieces of information about this
circulating, I heard last week from a former U.S. government
contractor. According to him, someone in the Department of Defense
called, asking for cost estimates for a model for reconstruction in
Asia. The former contractor finally concluded that the model was
intended for Iran.
This anecdote is also inconclusive, but it is consistent with the
depth of planning that went into the reconstruction effort in Iraq
and Afghanistan.
I hesitated before posting this. I don't want to spread alarmist
rumors. I don't want to lessen the pressure on the Ahmadinejad
government in Tehran.
But there are too many signs of another irresponsible military
adventure from the Cheney-Bush administration for me just to
dismiss these reports.
I am putting them into the public sphere in the hope of helping to
mobilize opposition to a policy that would further doom the efforts
in Afghanistan and Iraq and burden our country and the people of
the Middle East with yet another unstoppable fountain of bloodshed.
Posted by Barnett R. Rubin
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