Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh joins us to talk about his explosive new article in the New Yorker Magazine. Hersh reports that John Negroponte’s decision to resign as National Intelligence Director was made in part because of the Bush administration’s covert actions including the indirect funding of radical Sunni groups - some with ties to al-Qaeda - to counter Shiite groups backed by Iran. Hersh also reports the Pentagon has established a special planning group to plan a bombing attack on Iran and U.S. military and special-operations teams have already crossed the border into Iran in pursuit of Iranian operatives.
Hear or read the a full interview with Hersh on 'Democracy Now'
War With Iran: How Will It Affect the Troops?
The BBC reports that we are, indeed, planning for military strikes against Iran.
Meanwhile, the President seems to found his reason to attack Iran, pinning American deaths in Iraq on the Iranians...If we were to launch strikes against Iran, their response would be somewhat predictable. Their Mahdi Army in Iraq, which has largely laid low for a while and replenished its forces, would be unleashed to attack our forces in Iraq, probably where we are most overstretched, in the west. Even with the escalation of troops that the President proposes, we wouldn't have enough forces to fight both a Mahdi uprising and the current Sunni insurgents. American forces would be getting attacked from both sides, when each side wasn't fighting with each other. The Pentagon would most likely recommend indefinite extensions of our forces in the region to handle the uprising, some of whom already have spent the majority of the past couple of years in Iraq.
Read more on the Huffington Post
What you can do about Iran
by General Wes Clark
I believe it is critical to give voice to the vast majority of Americans who want to avoid a military conflict with Iran, and I hope you will visit StopIranWar.com to add your voice to our efforts. The Bush Administration seems headed for a showdown in the Middle East over the issue of Iran’s nuclear capacity, and it’s clear that all Americans want to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons and interfering on the ground inside Iraq.
That said, military force must be viewed as the last resort, and not the first option. Yet the Bush administration refuses to engage in direct talks with Iran, and with each passing month that we remain stalled and the Iranian program progresses, we come closer to the US military option.Jointly sponsored by Clark and VoteVets.org, www.StopIranWar.com. In just 24 hours, more than 10,000 people sent letters to the White House, Congress, and their local paper, urging some sanity in our military policy. If you haven’t already, please take a moment to go to the site and use the tools. Believe me, if every office in Washington and newspapers all around the country get 10,000 emails a day, we will be heard. Read more HERE
What else could this mean? A huge spike in oil prices that will encourage recession and hyper-inflation (possibly even world depression). Intervention on Iran's behalf against the United States from either or both Russia and/or China (Why not just use missiles? Can you say WWIII?)
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