Cheney Orders Media To Sell Attack On Iran
Fox News, Wall Street Journal instructed to launch PR blitz for upcoming military strike
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Dick Cheney has ordered top Neo-Con media outlets, including Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, to unleash a PR blitz to sell a war with Iran from today, according to Barnett Rubin, the highly respected Afghanistan expert at New York University.
The New Yorker magazine reports that Rubin had a conversation with a member of a top neoconservative institution in Washington, who told him that "instructions" had been passed on 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, writes Rubin, "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.”
Rubin subsequently confirmed with a second source that the propaganda coup had been launched and the individual, another top Neo-Con at a major think tank, had this to say about it: “I am a Republican. I am a conservative. But I’m not a raging lunatic. This is lunatic.”
An organized mass media campaign to propagandize for a military strike on Iran mirrors exactly what happened in late 2002 in preparation for the invasion of Iraq and would be seen as par for the course in anticipation of an attack that presidential candidate Ron Paul amongst other expert observers fear will take place within 12 months.
The issuance of orders for Neo-Con mass media arms to push for an assault on Iran also puts the U.S. on red alert for a terror attack, whether real or manufactured, which Dick Cheney has already promised will immediately be blamed on Iran no matter who the real culprits are.
On August 1st, 2005 the American Conservative reported that Cheney had tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan involved a massive air strike on Iran which included the use of nuclear weapons.
The publication reported that, "The response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States," meaning that any such attack will immediately be blamed on Iran and any evidence to the contrary will be buried.
The London Times reported on Sunday that the Pentagon had finalized plans for a 3 day blitz designed to annihilate 1,200 targets in Iran and destroy the country's military capability.
Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, said last week that US military planners were not preparing for “pinprick strikes” against Iran’s nuclear facilities. “They’re about taking out the entire Iranian military,” he said.
Debat was speaking at a meeting organised by The National Interest, a conservative foreign policy journal. He told The Sunday Times that the US military had concluded: “Whether you go for pinprick strikes or all-out military action, the reaction from the Iranians will be the same.” It was, he added, a “very legitimate strategic calculus”.
Rhetoric regarding a potential military attack on Iran has heated again over the past week, with President Bush having warned of the risk of a "nuclear holocaust" if the country was allowed to acquire nuclear capability.
In a speech last Monday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that a diplomatic push by the world's powers to rein in Tehran's nuclear program was the only alternative to "an Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran."
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad subsequently stated that a U.S. attack on Iran was "impossible" due to U.S. troops being tied down in Afghanistan and Iraq. Yesterday, he claimed to have proof that the U.S. were not planning to attack, bizarrely citing his mathematical skills as an engineer and faith in God.
A January poll by Ipsos found that 40% of Americans thought it likely that Iran would be attacked by the end of the year. The U.S. has stationed three aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf, the Nimitz, a nuclear-powered carrier, John C. Stennis Strike Group, and Dwight D. Eisenhower, a relief carrier.
The U.S. government is openly funding and supporting the activities of Jundullah, a Sunni Al-Qaeda terrorist group formerly headed by the alleged mastermind of 9/11, to carry out bombings in Iran and destabilize Ahmadinejad's power base.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard military was recently declared to be a terrorist organization by the White House, another ominous sign that an attack is being readied.
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Cheney has instructed ....
And we have learned that in a democratic country the press is the fourth estate ....
When traveling in Eastern Europe in the old days under communism I would take the temperature of freedom and democracy by studying the availability of newspapers etc.
The Western papers now are smarter and glossier, but they are in the same business of dumbing down their readers and deceiving them.
The little free exchange of uncensored information in the old Eastern Europe was stencil produced private messages. That corresponds to internet today. We are under the moral obligation to use it to the fullest for the sake of future generations, if we want future generations to emerge at all.
Until the present administration I held the view that the US has been a protector of freedom. Not any longer as I see the freedom of everybody, including American citizens being taken away illegally.
I have never before wished for America's destruction, but to be honest, even if the US will survive war with Iran that will not be the end of it. The Zionists will immediately present new demands:
Kill the Pakistanis for us! If you do we shall do it ourselves, and if any of us get hurt, it is your fault, you evil anti-Semites!
And after the Pakistanis the Syrians, the Sudanese, the Bangladeshi, who are only 30 years away from the bomb, but who desperately want it to commit a new Holocaust on the peaceful Jewish people.
This is going to be the end of the US sooner or later. Considering the enormity of human suffering let us hope that it will be sooner rather than later.
But my real hope is that the Americans will take their country back and bring its entire criminal leadership to justice!
Nothing would be more joyful than to welcome America back to the community of civilized people of good will.
Greg Bacon
"Nothing would be more joyful than to welcome America back to the community of civilized people of good will."
Thanks for the concerns, but i fear my country, America, has gone off the deep end.
And like a person with mental problems that has tendencies towards violence, we also need a cure and to be put safely away for awhile until we recover.
Since it's impossible to put an entire nation in a facility, i think we'll do that job ourselves, thru our spending habits, our indifference to affairs and the general greed of the overall population.
When the mortgage crisis that has now started to infect institutions world-wide finally crashes open big time here in America, we'll be so destitute and concerned with our own survival that we won't have the energy to go around invading other nations.
Since we no longer have a Congress, or Supreme Court independent of the presidency, a financial depression is the only way the US can come to grips with what we have done and what we have turned into over these years.
Once we can admit to and own up to what we have done, then maybe we can recover and then hopefully, rejoin the civilized countries of the world.
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The only person who wants to see Iran bombed so that his predictions come true is MPARENT7777.
For almost 2 years he has been promoting the "attack on Iran coming soon"
I wonder why he is hung up on seeing an attack on Iran?
Recently he suggested that someone had made $4.5bln put option on S&P and insinuated that it maybe something to do with a coming terrorist act in U.S. which will be used as pretext for a war on Iran, why does he tie everything up with a war on Iran?
MP you better just stop wishing an attack on Iran because it ain't gonna happen. America is finished Kaput! Capice?
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It ain't gonna happen.
You know Marc I am very surprised at your one theme song about the coming attack on Iran.
Surprised because you are supposed to be a good analyst and yet you are not able to analyze America's weakened state.
Lot's of things have changed since when America invaded Iraq in 2003.
There is the SCO, the Financial crisis, the bankruptcy of America, the Chavez effect, British defeat in Basra, the unreported large numbers of American troops dead in Iraq, the Arab distancing themselves from U.S. and most important of all the Iranian resolve.
Stop getting your info from CNN,Fox and the Cheney controlled media and you will see a different perspective on things.
Please spare us the death wish!
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Stop getting your info from CNN,Fox and the Cheney controlled media and you will see a different perspective on things.
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I might also add that quoting prisonplanet.com is highly suspect. Everyone here is quick to impeach various other sources and yet prisonplanet remains beyond reproach? Mr. Parent whats up with the double standard? Is Alex Jones a credible source? Most people consider Jones a shill why use him as a source? Could you give up your rationale? Thanks in advance.
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