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Posted by Faiz Shakir, Think Progress on July 31, 2008 at 11:00 AM.
From Faiz Shakir at Think Progress:
Speaking at the Campus Progress journalism conference earlier this
month, Seymour Hersh — a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for The
New Yorker — revealed that Bush administration officials held a
meeting recently in the Vice President’s office to discuss ways to
provoke a war with Iran.
In Hersh’s most recent article, he reports that this meeting
occurred in the wake of the overblown incident in the Strait of
Hormuz, when a U.S. carrier almost shot at a few small Iranian
speedboats. The “meeting took place in the Vice-President’s office.
‘The subject was how to create a casus belli between Tehran and
Washington,’” according to one of Hersh’s sources.
Interviewing Hersh during the journalism conference event, I asked
him specifically about this meeting and if he could elaborate on
what occurred. Hersh explained that, during the meeting in Cheney’s
office, an idea was considered to dress up Navy Seals as Iranians,
put them on fake Iranian speedboats, and shoot at them. This idea,
intended to provoke an Iran war, was ultimately rejected:
HERSH: There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war.
The one that interested me the most was why don’t we build — we in
our shipyard — build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT
boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one
of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up.
Might cost some lives. And it was rejected because you can’t have
Americans killing Americans. That’s the kind of — that’s the level
of stuff we’re talking about. Provocation. But that was rejected.
