I hope that this story is all over the place very soon. But if it gets buried I want as many people as possible to find out about it and look into it themselves.
A story was just broken by Seymour Hersh at the New Yorker saying that the Bush administration and Congress agreed late last year to fund a four hundred million dollar covert operation in Iran. The plan is to destabilize the current regime in Iran by participating in what seems to be terrorist-like practices. Hersh explained in an interview on "Fresh Air" with Terri Gross that he has gathered that the plan is to disturb the regime in Iran from the inside in order to provoke them into some kind of action that could warrant a military reaction from the United States.
Basically, the Bush administration wants to do in Iran what we did in Iraq but first we have to provoke them into doing something stupid so we can point the finger and say "Get 'em."
I'm currently reading Ron Paul's "Revolution: A Manifesto" (thanks Mom) and am becoming a complete convert when it comes to his idea of returning America to it's original non-interventionist policy. What the Bush administration and our Democratic Congress have agreed to is by far the complete opposite of non-interventionist. If we have to provoke a country by covert operations into committing some unplanned act of aggression in order to justify our own military action against them then isn't that a huge sign that maybe that country wasn't any kind of a threat in the first place???? What the hell is going on with our government? How is this a good idea and who is it supposed to benefit???
At the top of this post is a link to Seymour Hersh being interviewed on "Fresh Air." Here is a link to his New Yorker article: "Preparing The Battlefield."
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