CBS: Sy Hersh To Report U.S. Planning Iran Military Action

On Friday, the CBS News editorial board interviewed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. During the questioning, one of the board members said to Rice:

Iran is still increasingly in the news, both with the President being here and we understand there's an article coming out in The New Yorker next week, Sy Hirsch [sic] talking about plans the Administration is making to go into Iran in a military way. Can you talk to us anything about the situation in Iran and the United States?

Rice responded with the common refrain that "the President doesn't take any option off the table, but we still believe that the diplomatic track has legs and can still resolve this if we remain very tough on that track."

Comments

[GayTaxpayer]

10:00 AM on 10/02/2007

Cheney and Bush are nothing less than war criminals responsible for ethnic cleansing. The people need to educate themselves and take action against this adminstration. Playing a victim and complaining will not end this war.
Take action, no matter how small.

[HurryUp1212009]

05:15 PM on 10/01/2007

In
Las Vegas
it's
called
doubling
down;

Bush
has
failed
in
Iraq,
so
now
he's
going
to
try
his
luck
with
Iran.

Consider this: Bush has another 1.5 years in which to take America to the brink of WWIII, and we have no way to stop him....

S-C-A-R-Y!!!

[madprophet]

01:18 AM on 10/02/2007

Yes, there is indeed a way to stop him.
Stop Cheney. Bush is the puppet, Cheney the puppeteer.
And there is indeed a way to stop Cheney, but no one dares state it.

[ZingoBonMot]

01:42 AM on 10/02/2007

I AM NOT AFRAID!!!

IMPEACH THE SORRY MOTHERFUCKER!

Any questions?

[Dansden]

02:06 PM on 10/01/2007

Condi is worse than a prostitute for this corrupt regime- she is a PIMP who FEEDS on the LIES and DISTORTIONS of BUSH to allow more American troops to be killed in this Civil War in Iraq and NOW PIMPS for IRAN invasion which will further destroy our military families for
Lil Georgie's OIL SPORT!

What a despicably evil plan the BUSHIES have in store for America's poor soldiers!

BUSH does not know diplomacy! DIPLOMACY IN BUSHY'S BRAIN MEANS EXCUSE FOR WAR!!!! He is mad with delusional arrogance and America is becoming his global whore with PIMPS like BOLTON, RICE, GONZALES, etc! Pure and simple is this analogy of BUSH!

Americans need to call Republicans for what they are- FASCISTS- pure and simplistically evil! Republicans have labeled Dems 'socialists' whenever it pleases them- why shouldn't Dems refer to them as they are FASCIST!

[researcher]

02:42 AM on 10/01/2007

bush better be careful about wanting to bomb evil empires. there is a growing number of countries that think his is an evil empire.

hate to see the guy give instructions to bomb evil empires and they drop them on his head.

[godlessclif]

12:28 AM on 10/01/2007

He call the book World War Four, the long war against Islam. I missed three. Poddy says he supports McCain and applauds the new fascist ruling France.

[godlessclif]

12:26 AM on 10/01/2007

Bomb Bomb Bomb # Bomb Bomb Iran

[godlessclif]

12:25 AM on 10/01/2007

Norman Podhoretz is on Book TV lying about Iran.
He said Iran threatened to attack Israel with Nuclear weapons. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was just here saying all he wanted was the government of Israel to respect Palestinians.

The questioner a Mr. Pena quoted General Abusaid a saying Iran was not a threat and the Podhioretz called General Absaid a liar.

Pena then asked by that reasoning we should have attacked Mao. Podhoretz lied again and said Mao never threatened to use Nukes.

"If there is a nuclear war China will take her rightful place as first among nations because we will have the largest pile of bodies." Uncle Mao.

Does Podhoretz think no one else has read a book. Does he think he can lie like that to an educated C-Span audience.

I can't believe the next one. He said Iran wants to control middle east oil.
Just their own oil Poddy. Do you want to control your own book royalties? You evil man.

[olda]

10:54 PM on 09/30/2007

RUDIZIA GIULINEJAD FOR PREZ $$$$$$$$

[godlessclif]

05:45 PM on 09/30/2007

Who fund all the right wing think tanks? The inbred idiot children of the rich who hire intellectuals to tell them lies. "Blinded by the Right" by David Brock is a good case study.

[PollM]

09:27 PM on 09/30/2007

As it appears the administration is slowly leading the country towards a similar path it took us in the Iraq war.

Very little information and no diplomacy. Bush ideology and fundamental perspective is again taking control

of foreign policy. Democrats will one day ask themselves why did we not attempt to impeach President Bush.

If President Bush does move forward with these plans, would you support the bombing of Iran? ------>

http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=608

.

[OckhamsElectricRazor]

04:49 PM on 09/30/2007

Petty politicians are fiddling while Bagdag burns.

[goodsnservices]

08:11 PM on 09/30/2007

I've pretty much given up on trying to work through the senate. Democrats have a one seat majority, but there are what, 22 blue dogs in democratic senate seats? That means progressives are still in the minority. Hillary voting with Lieberman nearly puts her in that category as well.

I'm going to start working with the House instead. The Senate can't do anything without cooperation of the House. If we can't get anything DONE, at least we can prevent more ABUSE OF POWER.

[Norge]

04:11 PM on 09/30/2007

There is a cold age coming and the largest known reserves are now what the quarrel is about and securing water resources.

The largest comsumer of oil in the world is the American military and clear reality dictates that they must have control of those resources for the forseeable future if they are to survive.

Canadas' oil sands hold the second largest reserves in the world though it is an enormous process of extraction though militarily not a problem for America as Canada is Americas back yard as President Johnson once declared.

Water is Israels largest problem and why they have occupied the areas they have.

When all is said and done, none dare drink oil.
Though it is still what greases the gears of all the military machineary and all war tecnology is none functioning without it.

The Beast would not last more than one week if cut off from resources.

The American people are caught between a rock and a hard place. They do not want to change their life styles or down size yet do not want to take the resources they need for their survival, though in the end they will look the other way while their elected officials make the ugly decision to steal what they need to maintain their way of life as they have done generation after generation. Wars have always been about resources from the times of the Roman Empire and Americas' history is the history of the aquirement of others resources
either through swindle, skulldugery or black ops or extended wars.

They will again rational the irational.

They now own Iraq and have built the largest survalence embassy in the world there to oversee their assets. And of course they will have to nutralize any threats to their assets.

There is a cold age coming.

[RogerHWerner]

02:27 PM on 09/30/2007

Rice is adept at prevarication so it's difficult to know what she thinks. Some of her statements seem reasonable but others exaggerate and she obfuscates with respect to a solution.

The Europeans have publicly stated that Iran cannot develop nuclear weapons and the Russians and presumably Chinese understand the danger proliferation: If Iran successfully thumbs its nose at the UN, it signals that countries seeking to establish nuclear programs can do so with impunity. The UN now pays the price for its less then incisive non-proliferation policy, which never was linked to penalties for violations. It's difficult claim moral high ground regards Iranian proliferation when the West ignored India and Pakistan (and Israel and possibly South Africa). From the Iranian point of view, I imagine UN antiproliferation policy seems permissive to nations friendly with the West and restrictive to any who are anti-West.

Regardless of what Rice may say, it's obvious the Israelis cannot permit the Iranian program to proliferate into weapons development and so they will act...soon. The Bush administration is strongly pro-Israel and it makes sense for Israel to act before Bush leaves office. The West is left with several unpleasant choices: It can continue negotiations with no solution to the issue on the table, in which case Israel will likely attack; the West could respond forcefully first providing they can get the Russians and Chinese support or at least not hinder any actions; or the US can act unilaterally.

The West cannot afford to let Israel respond unilaterally. While a Western or US attack would be economically damaging to everyone, it would likely be viewed by moderate Muslim nations more favorably than an Israeli attack but I doubt the Russians and Chinese would agree to more UN talk, which means the US will likely have to act unilaterally before ISrael does. There will be a response to Iran and I'd bet it will occur after the 2008 election but before Bush leaves office.

[goodsnservices]

07:45 PM on 09/30/2007

Please! Roger, stop regurgitating that same old tired and scared neocon refrain! Why can't we let Israel act unilaterally, if it has decided to do so? If they commit aggression against another state, they are in violation of international law. Besides, if we take the stance that we will not act if Israal does, it is likely to deter Israel from acting aggressively.

Why are people like you so afraid? Ahmedinijad is only one man, and a man who has very little actual power within Iran. Who cares if he makes scary pronouncements? Bullys who intend to act rarely advertise that fact well in advance.

The last Iranian president, Rafsanjani, was a progressive moderate who was overwhelmingly elected by the people of Iran on a civil reform platform. He was unable to institute a singe reform, however, because the leader of Iran, the Ayatollah (remember him?) forbid the reforms. Ahmedinijad has exactly as much power as Rafsanjani had, which is NONE.

However, Rafsanjani has just been elected to the High Advisory Council as its chief cleric. That means when the Ayatollah dies, Rafsanjani, the civil reformer, will CHOOSE the next Great Leader of Iran. Who do you suppose he will choose, providing we don't do something stupid like bomb Iran. He will choose someone who is amenable to civil reform. At that moment in history, Iran will change forever. The next general election after that will elect, overwhelmingly, another civil reformer, and this time those democratic reforms will be put into effect.

The wheel turns forward, no matter how hard paranoid fundamentalists such as yourself wish it would stop and reverse.

[Qbear]

02:12 PM on 09/30/2007

the next DUET

Hillary and McCain

bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb IRAN

[goodsnservices]

08:11 PM on 09/30/2007

Naw, it's Hillary and Lieberman.

[TJTelecaster]

01:30 PM on 09/30/2007

We are being run by a Fascist Banking Cabal..!

They want Armageddon and they're gonna get it..

Fuck you David Rockefeller..!

[patanderson]

12:27 PM on 09/30/2007

This fascist crowd would like nothing more than to light up the entire Middle East!

As long as that crowd is in the White House, WWIII is coming folks. We don't have the military or money to fight what will be a protracted and VERY bloody war. It's nice for our leaders to point fingers, saber rattle and send other peoples family to war....that cannot and will not be won by America.

I wish to God that leaders from our allied nations would for once stand up to Bush and Cheney and tell them to stand down and shut the hell up.

[kroses98]

01:32 PM on 09/30/2007

AMEN!

[anotherpatriot]

02:05 PM on 09/30/2007

I second that!

[rras]

02:39 PM on 09/30/2007

That's the truth. The world needs some kind of thoughtful people with something like "LIFE" in their agenda instead of the interest of a small group of people who have a safe spot picked out in some small location in the world to sit out the kind of death and destruction that they call for every time they open their mouths.
We need to Tag and Label each and everyone of these people and groups for some kind of future punishment after the world comes to it's senses.
Are we so dumb that we can't see what these phony leaders are doing to our world and future.

[CarmanK]

03:46 PM on 09/30/2007

The neocons have spent a lot of money discrediting the UN. The nations of the "unwilling" sent their message prior to Iraq and the Bush/Cheny/Rumsfeld troika ignored them. It was careless disregard for our nation and the world when the Senate passed a resolution last week condemning Iran and giving Bush the perceived power to act. It is the Congress, that needs to tell Bush to sit down and shut up. The rest of the world is not listening to him.