Director Goss said he has "an excellent idea" where Osama bin Laden is hiding. Thing is, that darned diplomacy thing is gettin' in the way, again. If diplomacy is the problem that must mean he's not in Afghanistan or Pakistan. We have diplomatic relations with one and a bunch of Osama hunters in the other. Not there Porter? Guess not, otherwise your guys would have him by now, I would think, if you really knew where he was, or if he was in one or the other.
Well let's see ...hmmm...thats one long walk to Iraq. Oh wait, he wouldn't go there. Even more guys with guns there. It would be pretty stupid to enter a country with 130,000 US troops armed to the teeth no mater how good the guy is at hiding. That leaves one other place that isn't to far away for foot travel, Iran. Could it be that Director Goss' "excellent idea" may be Iran? That's what Rep. Curt Weldon(R) of Pennsylvania, vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and member of the Homeland Security Committee thinks. Weldon told CNN's Wolf Blitzer Sunday(6/19/05) he "knows for sure" that Osama has been "in and out of Iran, where Ayatollah Khomenei has been protecting him with his Revolutionary Guard."
The information that Weldon is using to place bin Laden in Iran is one secret source known as "Ali". This is the same source who had the information about future terrorist threats and Iran's nuclear(or if you're Dubya it's nucular) weapons program. By the way, this "Ali" is supposed to be the cousin of the former Shah of Iran who was removed from power during the Islamic Revolution in 1978. Could be he's looking for some retribution.
Now, CIA Officer Bill Murray...(yeah, yeah I know, not THAT Bill Murray, the funny guy)... anyway, the CIA Bill Murray said he met "Ali" while stationed in Paris...(France not Hilton)...and he said of "Ali" that "he's never given us any information that was the slightest bit credible" and "this guy was a waste of my time and resources."
Well...lets see now, I seem to remember that "Curveball" was just one guy who the CIA didn't think was reliable either, but good ole Dubya thought his information was good enough to invade Iraq. Opps...I forgot, that was just an excuse to cover the plans the Busheviks had already made for Saddam's fall. It worked so good before maybe they can fool all of us again...doubt it.
Does everybody remember the Axis of Evil? Sure hope so 'cause it looks like No.2 on that list has gotten itself square into Dubya's cross-hairs. Next stop, downtown Tehran. Not to worry folks, I'm sure Rumsfeld will guarentee that this will only take "six weeks at the most" with "low casualties" for our side.
The problems the military has in Iraq right now are nothing compared to what they will have in Iran. Over 1700 dead in Iraq, probably more like 17,000 dead in Iran if that fool in the Whitehouse decides to go there. Don't be an idiot again, George. Don't go there!
For anyone who doesn't believe we would invade Iran, please read the following article by Scott Ritter a former U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998.
The US war with Iran has already begun
by Scott Ritter
Sunday 19 June 2005 12:06 PM GMT
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Americans, along with the rest of the world, are starting to wake up to the uncomfortable fact that President George Bush not only lied to them about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (the ostensible excuse for the March 2003 invasion and occupation of that country by US forces), but also about the very process that led to war.
On 16 October 2002, President Bush told the American people that "I have not ordered the use of force. I hope that the use of force will not become necessary." his timeline of events has ramifications that go beyond historical trivia or political investigation into the events of the past. But Americans, and indeed much of the rest of the world, continue to be lulled into a false sense of complacency by the fact that overt conventional military operations have not yet commenced between the United States and Iran. But the CIA-backed campaign of MEK terror bombings in Iran are not the only action ongoing against Iran. America and the Western nations continue to be fixated on the ongoing tragedy and debacle that is Iraq. Much needed debate on the reasoning behind the war with Iraq and the failed post-war occupation of Iraq is finally starting to spring up in the United States and elsewhere. Scott Ritter is a former UN weapons inspector in Iraq, 1991-1998, and author of Iraq Confidential: The Untold Story of America's Intelligence Conspiracy, to be published by I B Tauris in October 2005.
We know now that this statement was itself a lie, that the president, by late August 2002, had, in fact, signed off on the 'execute' orders authorising the US military to begin active military operations inside Iraq, and that these orders were being implemented as early as September 2002, when the US Air Force, assisted by the British Royal Air Force, began expanding its bombardment of targets inside and outside the so-called no-fly zone in Iraq.
These operations were designed to degrade Iraqi air defence and command and control capabilities. They also paved the way for the insertion of US Special Operations units, who were conducting strategic reconnaissance, and later direct action, operations against specific targets inside Iraq, prior to the 19 March 2003 commencement of hostilities.
President Bush had signed a covert finding in late spring 2002, which authorised the CIA and US Special Operations forces to dispatch clandestine units into Iraq for the purpose of removing Saddam Hussein from power.
The fact is that the Iraq war had begun by the beginning of summer 2002, if not earlier.
It represents a record of precedent on the part of the Bush administration which must be acknowledged when considering the ongoing events regarding US-Iran relations. As was the case with Iraq pre-March 2003, the Bush administration today speaks of "diplomacy" and a desire for a "peaceful" resolution to the Iranian question.
But the facts speak of another agenda, that of war and the forceful removal of the theocratic regime, currently wielding the reigns of power in Tehran.
As with Iraq, the president has paved the way for the conditioning of the American public and an all-too-compliant media to accept at face value the merits of a regime change policy regarding Iran, linking the regime of the Mullah's to an "axis of evil" (together with the newly "liberated" Iraq and North Korea), and speaking of the absolute requirement for the spread of "democracy" to the Iranian people.
"Liberation" and the spread of "democracy" have become none-too-subtle code words within the neo-conservative cabal that formulates and executes American foreign policy today for militarism and war.
By the intensity of the "liberation/democracy" rhetoric alone, Americans should be put on notice that Iran is well-fixed in the cross-hairs as the next target for the illegal policy of regime change being implemented by the Bush administration.
As such, many hold out the false hope that an extension of the current insanity in Iraq can be postponed or prevented in the case of Iran. But this is a fool's dream.
The reality is that the US war with Iran has already begun. As we speak, American over flights of Iranian soil are taking place, using pilotless drones and other, more sophisticated, capabilities.
The violation of a sovereign nation's airspace is an act of war in and of itself. But the war with Iran has gone far beyond the intelligence-gathering phase.
President Bush has taken advantage of the sweeping powers granted to him in the aftermath of 11 September 2001, to wage a global war against terror and to initiate several covert offensive operations inside Iran.
The most visible of these is the CIA-backed actions recently undertaken by the Mujahadeen el-Khalq, or MEK, an Iranian opposition group, once run by Saddam Hussein's dreaded intelligence services, but now working exclusively for the CIA's Directorate of Operations.
It is bitter irony that the CIA is using a group still labelled as a terrorist organisation, a group trained in the art of explosive assassination by the same intelligence units of the former regime of Saddam Hussein, who are slaughtering American soldiers in Iraq today, to carry out remote bombings in Iran of the sort that the Bush administration condemns on a daily basis inside Iraq.
Perhaps the adage of "one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist" has finally been embraced by the White House, exposing as utter hypocrisy the entire underlying notions governing the ongoing global war on terror.
To the north, in neighbouring Azerbaijan, the US military is preparing a base of operations for a massive military presence that will foretell a major land-based campaign designed to capture Tehran.
Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld's interest in Azerbaijan may have escaped the blinkered Western media, but Russia and the Caucasus nations understand only too well that the die has been cast regarding Azerbaijan's role in the upcoming war with Iran.
The ethnic links between the Azeri of northern Iran and Azerbaijan were long exploited by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and this vehicle for internal manipulation has been seized upon by CIA paramilitary operatives and US Special Operations units who are training with Azerbaijan forces to form special units capable of operating inside Iran for the purpose of intelligence gathering, direct action, and mobilising indigenous opposition to the Mullahs in Tehran.
But this is only one use the US has planned for Azerbaijan. American military aircraft, operating from forward bases in Azerbaijan, will have a much shorter distance to fly when striking targets in and around Tehran.
In fact, US air power should be able to maintain a nearly 24-hour a day presence over Tehran airspace once military hostilities commence.
No longer will the United States need to consider employment of Cold War-dated plans which called for moving on Tehran from the Arab Gulf cities of Chah Bahar and Bandar Abbas. US Marine Corps units will be able to secure these towns in order to protect the vital Straits of Hormuz, but the need to advance inland has been eliminated.
A much shorter route to Tehran now exists - the coastal highway running along the Caspian Sea from Azerbaijan to Tehran.
US military planners have already begun war games calling for the deployment of multi-divisional forces into Azerbaijan.
Logistical planning is well advanced concerning the basing of US air and ground power in Azerbaijan.
Given the fact that the bulk of the logistical support and command and control capability required to wage a war with Iran is already forward deployed in the region thanks to the massive US presence in Iraq, the build-up time for a war with Iran will be significantly reduced compared to even the accelerated time tables witnessed with Iraq in 2002-2003.
Normally, this would represent a good turn of events. But with everyone's heads rooted in the events of the past, many are missing out on the crime that is about to be repeated by the Bush administration in Iran - an illegal war of aggression, based on false premise, carried out with little regard to either the people of Iran or the United States.
Most Americans, together with the mainstream American media, are blind to the tell-tale signs of war, waiting, instead, for some formal declaration of hostility, a made-for-TV moment such as was witnessed on 19 March 2003.
We now know that the war had started much earlier. Likewise, history will show that the US-led war with Iran will not have begun once a similar formal statement is offered by the Bush administration, but, rather, had already been under way since June 2005, when the CIA began its programme of MEK-executed terror bombings in Iran.
The opinions expressed here are the author's and do not necessarily reflect the editorial position or have the endorsement of Aljazeera.
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By Scott Ritter
CLINTON LIED, NOBODY DIED!!!!
BUSH KEEPS LYING, SOILDERS KEEP DYING!!!!
NO MORE BLOOD FOR OIL AND PROFIT!!!!
STOP THE LYING AND STOP THE DYING!!!!
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