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.
President Bush met directly with talk radio idealogues at the White
House last year to push the Neo-Con agenda. Sean Hannity, Laura
Ingraham, Neal Boortz and Michael Medved (pictured below) amongst
others all attended and received their talking points straight from
the President's mouth.
Considering the history of the sordid "fake news" scandal, where
millions of dollars were used to create pre-packaged government
press releases disguised as news, along with the Armstrong Williams
farce, it should surprise no one that such "instructions" are now
being handed out to prepare the public for another military
invasion.
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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