Anodyne
Monday, April 10, 2006
 
Axis of Evil, v.2.0

New long article by the New Yorker's Seymour M. Hersh, the best investigative reporter I know, on the Bush administration's clandestine plans to achieve "regime change" in Iran through a strategic bombing campaign. Anyone harboring doubts as to W.'s status as the most inept and dangerous US president of all time should pay close attention to Hersh's claims, bearing in mind that in the frenzied run-up to the invasion of Iraq, Hersh was repeatedly ridiculed by W.'s administration and the Pentagon's civilian leadership as a crackpot conspiracy theorist. But, as Gordon and Trainor's excellent, recently published Cobra II makes clear, Hersh's reporting was pretty much on the money.

Hersh:

"A government consultant with close ties to the civilian leadership in the Pentagon said that Bush was 'absolutely convinced that Iran is going to get the bomb' if it is not stopped. He said that the President believes that he must do 'what no Democrat or Republican, if elected in the future, would have the courage to do,' and 'that saving Iran is going to be his legacy.'

One former defense official, who still deals with sensitive issues for the Bush Administration, told me that the military planning was premised on a belief that 'a sustained bombing campaign in Iran will humiliate the religious leadership and lead the public to rise up and overthrow the government.' He added, 'I was shocked when I heard it, and asked myself, "What are they smoking?"'"
- posted by cjb @ 9:04 AM


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