Cheney Pushes Bush to Act on Iran
July 17th, 2007Tell me another one.
Via: Guardian:
The balance in the internal White House debate over Iran has shifted back in favour of military action before President George Bush leaves office in 18 months, the Guardian has learned.
The shift follows an internal review involving the White House, the Pentagon and the state department over the last month. Although the Bush administration is in deep trouble over Iraq, it remains focused on Iran. A well-placed source in Washington said: “Bush is not going to leave office with Iran still in limbo.”
The White House claims that Iran, whose influence in the Middle East has increased significantly over the last six years, is intent on building a nuclear weapon and is arming insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The vice-president, Dick Cheney, has long favoured upping the threat of military action against Iran. He is being resisted by the secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, and the defence secretary, Robert Gates.
Last year Mr Bush came down in favour of Ms Rice, who along with Britain, France and Germany has been putting a diplomatic squeeze on Iran. But at a meeting of the White House, Pentagon and state department last month, Mr Cheney expressed frustration at the lack of progress and Mr Bush sided with him. “The balance has tilted. There is cause for concern,” the source said this week.
On google earth I used to be able to see facilities along the Iraq-Iran and Afghanistan-Iran. They were big buildings, hard to miss. They are no longer visible on google earth as of last March.
All of the tools are in place,now. Big long range bombers and carrier battle groups.
The clock is ticking.
@ Jim Burke
So you’re saying that those buildings were taken down, or they’ve been erased from the Google map because they are now targets? I’m not sure what the significance of your statement is.
I think he’s saying that Google maps has been reconfigured so as not to show any indication of staging for an impending attack. Obviously that isn’t going to fool the Iranians, so it is intended to hide attack preparations from the American public.
I think the photos, not the buildings were removed. Google earth has done that in the past, like removing the pics of post-Katrina New Orleans. In that case nature removed the buildings, google put them back.
If I were staging supplies at forward bases, I wouldn’t want satellite images of them available to the general public.
I can’t believe they were ever available.
Thing is, a lot of material has been moved to Iraq and Afghanistan over the past several years.
We lose track of stuff so easily, but do we really lose it, or is it being stored for later operations?
The Iraq debacle brands Bush and co. as liars, so why would anyone believe them now about Iran? Gotta find a way to get their message to the people. It is highly believable that they are hatching some nasty “false flag” scenario. As we already know, the pieces are just about all in place: the moved nukes being more of the pieces maybe. Of course, in the interest of national security, we will be the last to know and even then they will keep us guessing that the incredibly powerful, elusive and resourceful terrorists (wearing sandals and carrying AK47s) have done it again leaving the US no choice but to intervene. Yeah, right!