| Media Blackout On Cheney Iran False Flag Story |
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| Written by Doug Warren | |
| Monday, 04 August 2008 | |
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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.
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EXCLUSIVE: To Provoke War, Cheney Considered Proposal To Dress Up Navy Seals As Iranians And Shoot At ThemSpeaking 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 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:
Update Kevin Drum adds:
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.
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