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04Aug
Media Blackout On Cheney Iran False Flag Story
Written by Doug Warren
Monday, 04 August 2008
Have you heard about this yet? Cheney contemplating a false flag attack with American Navy Seals disguised as Iranians to "provoke" the U.S. into war with Iran. It's all hidden in plan view folks. And the mainstream media isn't doing it's job because they and their advertisers are owned by the same folks that own our politicans.
The following article comes from Infowars.com- D.W.
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The mainstream American corporate press has once again proven itself to
be no better than the state controlled media in places like Communist
China or Zimbabwe, by steadfastly refusing to print even a mention of
the huge story concerning veteran journalist Seymour Hersh’s recent
comments that the vice president wanted to carry out a false flag
operation to provoke a war with Iran.
As we reported Thursday,
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh revealed how the
neocons convened around Dick Cheney and brainstormed ways to kick off
World War IV.
“There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war,”
Hersh explained. “The one that interested me the most was why don’t we
build — we in our shipyard — build four or five boats that look like
Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next
time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up.”
Given that only a few weeks ago Hersh’s exclusive story
concerning the vamping up of covert U.S. military activity inside Iran
made headlines everywhere, in every major publication and outlet, it
begs the question where are they now for an even bigger story?
The Financial Times
even carries a story today about how Hersh is “The Last Great American
Reporter”, yet the lengthy piece contains no mention of his latest
revelations.
Furthermore, Hersh himself is not a wholly innocent party in the
media blackout on this, given that he has admitted to having more
details of similar incidents and meetings that have been leaked to him
by White House insiders, and has opted to keep them out of print.
The corporate media has once again proven that it is loathe to
divulge the key information that Cheney and many other Neo-Cons are in
effect not just yearning for, but openly calling for more terror and
more war and are willing to fake and engineer major events in order to
see it happen - a point which is especially prescient when one accepts
that 9/11 was a self-inflicted wound.
The attention and outrage that this story should have created could
have been enough to stave off an attack on Iran and the ever increasing
slide towards another unneccessary and illegal war, a war that would
surely be the final catalyst in an already burgeoning domestic and
global economic meltdown.
The outright complicity of the corporate media in blackballing this
story reminds us how the neocon cabal in the White House has
consistently been able to conspire, lie and twist the truth for its own
ill gotten gains without facing any substantial public scrutiny.
We will not cease in our efforts to turn this into a massive story but we need your support. Get the story and e mail it out to every newspaper, newswire and TV news station in existence.
The media’s unwillingness to cover this issue only deepens the abyss
that they find themselves in. Their reaction speaks volumes about how
they are conditioned and in many cases ordered to shy away from these
kind of stories.
Newspaper readership and TV news viewership is plummeting as people
flock to the alternative media because the mainstream’s credibility
lies in tatters as it repeatedly lies by omission and covers-up for its
government handlers.
Speaking at the Campus Progress journalism conference earlier this month, Seymour Hersh — a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist
for The New Yorker — revealed that Bush administration officials held a
meeting recently in the Vice President’s office to discuss ways to
provoke a war with Iran.
In Hersh’s most recent article, he reports that this meeting occurred in the wake of the overblown incident in the Strait of Hormuz, when a U.S. carrier almost shot at a few small Iranian speedboats. The “meeting took place in the Vice-President’s office. ‘The subject was how to create a casus belli between Tehran and Washington,’” according to one of Hersh’s sources.
During the journalism conference event, I asked Hersh specifically
about this meeting and if he could elaborate on what occurred. Hersh
explained that, during the meeting in Cheney’s office, an idea was
considered to dress up Navy Seals as Iranians, put them on fake Iranian
speedboats, and shoot at them. This idea, intended to provoke an Iran
war, was ultimately rejected:
HERSH: There was a dozen ideas proffered about
how to trigger a war. The one that interested me the most was why don’t
we build — we in our shipyard — build four or five boats that look like
Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next
time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up.
Might cost some lives. And it was rejected because you can’t have
Americans killing Americans. That’s the kind of — that’s the level of
stuff we’re talking about. Provocation. But that was rejected.
Hersh argued that one of the things the Bush administration learned
during the encounter in the Strait of Hormuz was that, “if you get the
right incident, the American public will support” it.
“Look, is it high school? Yeah,” Hersh said. “Are we playing high
school with you know 5,000 nuclear warheads in our arsenal? Yeah we
are. We’re playing, you know, who’s the first guy to run off the
highway with us and Iran.”
Transcript:
HERSH: There was a meeting. Among the items considered
and rejected — which is why the New Yorker did not publish it, on
grounds that it wasn’t accepted — one of the items was why not…
There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war. The
one that interested me the most was why don’t we build — we in our
shipyard — build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats.
Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our
boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up. Might cost some
lives.
And it was rejected because you can’t have Americans killing
Americans. That’s the kind of — that’s the level of stuff we’re talking
about. Provocation. But that was rejected.
So I can understand the argument for not writing something that was
rejected — uh maybe. My attitude always towards editors is they’re mice
training to be rats.
But the point is jejune, if you know what that means. Silly? Maybe.
But potentially very lethal. Because one of the things they learned in
the incident was the American public, if you get the right incident,
the American public will support bang-bang-kiss-kiss. You know, we’re
into it.
…What happened in the Gulf was, in the Straits, in early January,
the President was just about to go to the Middle East for a visit. So
that was one reason they wanted to gin it up. Get it going.
Look, is it high school? Yeah. Are we playing high school with you
know 5,000 nuclear warheads in our arsenal? Yeah we are. We’re playing,
you know, who’s the first guy to run off the highway with us and Iran.
If
this story sounds familiar, that's because it is. In one of David
Manning's famous memos describing a prewar meeting between George Bush
and Tony Blair, he says that Bush admitted that WMD was unlikely to be
found in Iraq and then mused on some possible options for justifying a
war anyway:
"The U.S. was thinking of flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft with
fighter cover over Iraq, painted in U.N. colours," the memo says,
attributing the idea to Mr. Bush. "If Saddam fired on them, he would be
in breach."
In the end, of course, we didn't do this. We just didn't bother with any pretext at all.
Have you heard about this yet? Cheney contemplating a false flag attack with American Navy Seals disguised as Iranians to "provoke" the U.S. into war with Iran. It's all hidden in plan view folks. And the mainstream media isn't doing it's job because they and their advertisers are owned by the same folks that own our politicans.
