EXCLUSIVE: To Provoke War, Cheney Considered Proposal To Dress Up Navy Seals As Iranians And Shoot At Them

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sent by Sparrows since 477 days 20 hours 36 minutes, published about 477 days 11 hours 33 minutes
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. 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...
tags: lies for made up war, iran, vp, bush
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  1. #1    So if anyone out there thought that it was just a conspiracy theory to dress up our military to look like insurgents, or al-qaeda, or anyone else for that matter, can aknowledge now by this story that NOTHING under the Bush admin is a conspiracy theory. IT IS ALL TRUE!
    written by Sparrows since 477 days 19 hours 29 minutesSparrows
  2. #2    There's a nefarious history for such things.

    The Gleiwitz incident was a staged attack on 31 August 1939 against the German radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany (since 1945: Gliwice, Republic of Poland) on the eve of World War II in Europe.

    This provocation was one of several actions in Operation Himmler, a Nazi Germany SS project to create the appearance of Polish aggression against Germany, which would be used to justify the subsequent invasion of Poland.
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    On the night of August 31, 1939 a small group of German operatives, dressed in Polish uniforms and led by Naujocks[2] seized the Gleiwitz station and broadcast a short anti-German ...

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    written by kladner since 477 days 18 hours 57 minuteskladner
  3. #3    Hey, thanks for that info. I remember that incident. It was the excuse for starting the war with Poland.
    written by Sparrows since 477 days 14 hours 26 minutesSparrows
  4. #4    I vote that we dress Cheney up as a criminal, oh...then again he is dressed up as a criminal.
    written by buzz since 477 days 11 hours 6 minutesbuzz
  5. #5    We the People need to choose an undisclosed location in which to vanish our own fascist rulers.
    written by Madsonovich since 477 days 10 hours 22 minutesMadsonovich
  6. #6    Would be nice if the MSM gave us news like this instead of 24/7 updates on Britney and Paris.
    written by Justice4alltoday since 477 days 9 hours 35 minutesJustice4alltoday
  7. #7    How about Compton? Just dump them out on the street in their pinstripe suits and gold cuff-links, right about midnight. We would never have to worry about them again.
    written by sageone04 since 477 days 9 hours 34 minutessageone04
  8. #8    ....and Pelosi stated on "The View"
    "unless you have the goods that this president committed crimes."

    Well hell Nancy, would you settle for a twofer? President and Vice President? I believe the evidence is out there. The only problem from getting from exhibit A to I is P.
    Pelosi IS Obstructing Justice! And, if the US attacks Iran,Pelosi ought to be charged with Aiding and Abetting.
    written by isog since 477 days 7 hours 26 minutesisog
  9. #9    No Navy SeAL I've ever known would "willingly and knowingly" subscribe to such a mission......

    I'd bet on the Team's over our regular Navy in a heartbeat!!!!!

    They'd (reg Navy) more than likely get their asses handed to them anyway.........

    God forbid any of these pissed off frogmen survive the ordeal...I'd sure wouldn't want to be on their "shit list"
    written by mercman since 477 days 5 hours 55 minutesmercman
  10. #10    Not QUITE a smoking gun - but a nice place to start investigating, don't you think...? :D

    Sure Cheney considered this - it fits to a "T" his spy thriller-infested mind! In fact, wasn't THIS the premise of one of those RAINBOW SIX paperback thrillers men's adventure writers grind out once a month - where Tom Clancy's name is in BIG letters on the cover, and the real author isn't mentioned until the Acknowledgements page, if at all?
    written by drdarkeny since 477 days 2 hours 51 minutesdrdarkeny
  11. #11    Cheney should get a t-shirt with a bull’s eye on it and stand on the ships bowsprit; see if that draws any fire.
    written by muffin since 477 days 41 minutesmuffin
  12. #12    #3-You're welcome, Sparrows. It jumped right out at me, though I had to do a little search on "the Google" to get the details.
    written by kladner since 476 days 15 hours 52 minuteskladner
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