Meet the "Whack Iran" Lobby
From the October 2006 issue of Mother Jones:
Exiles peddling back-channel intelligence, upstart advocacy groups pressing for regime change, administration hawks intent on remaking the Middle East—the scene in Washington is looking eerily familiar as the Iran standoff grows more tense. Instead of Ahmad Chalabi, we have the likes of Iran-Contra arms-dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar.
A new Iran directorate inside the Pentagon features some of the same people who brought you the Iraq intel-cherrypicking operation at the Office of Special Plans. Whether calling for outright regime change or pushing “democracy promotion” initiatives to undermine the Iranian government, an expanding cast of characters has emerged to promote confrontation between the U.S. and Iran.
“We are not in a political debate with this regime,” Timmerman has said. “We are in the business of overthrowing them.”
The following is a partial list of the still at large war criminals that helped push the U.S. into the war against Iraq and that are now pushing for a war against Iran:
- Abram Shulsky, Elizabeth Cheney, David Wurmser, Elliott Abrams, Michael Ledeen, Manucher Ghorbanifar and the ever present American Enterprise Institute, whose only enterprise is getting American kids killed fighting wars for Israel.
Truth Seeker--it is looking ever so much like the slow end of the US as most thought it would go..to put in power (scalia) a criminal twice should have been met with mass rioting on the streets..Was the rodney king beating worse than the looting of the treasury and the destruction of the constitution?? Seems so..but then again the majority of americans only want tv, chemically filled fast foods and video games..I cant wait to move to venenzuela...viva chavez