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

[TWOSHORT]

Ok on some of these talk show like Chris Matthews the subject of where are we going to get the troops that needed to fight these wars?No Draft has been talked about by ether side REP/DEM other than Charlie Rangel rep from N.Y[Jena6,­Katrina,Po­verty[12-2­0 MILLION INVITED GUESS WORKERS] and the Black Male in America]Felony and the loss of one's need to have a JOB or to VOTE for those who would change your life from POVERTY to mainstream.Fighting White Rep on a daliy base reminds me of the HISTORY between the JEWS and the NAZI THEY WANTED THEM THE JEWS GONE!!!SOUNDS LIKE THE STUFF BLACK'S HEAR FROM WHITE'S IN AMERICA.

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

Sy Hersh has never been wrong; always been right.

Let's hope CBS is wrong about Sy.

*** TROOPS OUT or BUSH OUT ***

Before it's too late.

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

Worth a thought:

Given CBS is part of the MSM which has done so little to hold the administration to account over the past seven years...

Could it be that this snippet by CBS is FALSE, but designed to create an impression of the INEVITIBILITY of war with Iran?

Rove would be proud.

[imusintheevening]

MSM needs a war for the ratings boost. It is a symbiotic relationship with the administration.

[gaby]

back off bush , i've had enough go to your room and keep your hands to yourself. oh if only barb had laid down the law years ago.. cjw

[hugs4u]

gw bush can not have them aircraft carriers sitting that close to Iran for a very long time without doing something. He has to attack by Halloween.

[PollM]

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

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[ElIngeniero]

Google up "Supersonic Cruise Missile", and find out that the Aegis air defense platform can't handle them and Irn has hundreds of those puppies.

If the Shrub starts anything more than a low grade cold war with Iran, I imagine impeachment will be the least bad thing that happens to him. Of course the neocon trash will be complaining about how we could have taken Iran in a "fair" fight, but come on ... the are the ones who've cotten fat of not playing fair.

[wadenelson1]

Does he turn into a pumpkin otherwise?

[accountability]

"This is a very difficult country for our interests."

Ah yes, our interests. We will take out anyone who is difficult for our interests. (oil and capitalism run amok.)

Dear God, where are their ethics and morals?
An abusive bully. That is what we have become...(we have had the tendency to act out like this over decades) what our leaders have become.

it is sickening. I want to remove the lot of them except for the notable few.

[PollM]

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

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[getoffmedz]

PollM - spam

[Jain]

Did everyone miss the Isreali attack in Syria? It was practice for Iran.

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

Interesting how easily the Israelis got past the IRANIAN-supplied (?) air defenses in Syria.

[ajax2]

Hillary Clinton and a dozen more Dem. Senators have already authorized Bush to kill Iranians.

[hugs4u]

She is a whore for the jews. Hillary had to vote for Libermans amendment. She needs the jews of NY to support her.

[leftLibertarian]

As I've been saying, Hillary is like Bush but with two more boobs.

I laff every time some dim bulb bush lover calls her 'far left.'

[outnow]

Make Israel the fifty-first state and make Lieberman the Senator from Israel. The U.S. can be chosen people also? Anyone know how that works? God, how does that work? God?

Dial a prayer for atheists - no one answers.

Can you still get a massive tax deduction for buying a monster truck?

[Plowboy]

Why do you think Israel would accept a demotion to the status of a mere US state? Then they would have to pay taxes instead of gathering the aid packages we send them. Then they would be subject to law, and ours at that. Now they do as they please and thumb therir noses at any restrictions, and we protect them from any adverse conseqences . And worst of all: if they were a state, then the rest of us would be their equals. Now they dictate to us.
Don't be silly; the king never volunteers to become a mere peon.

[getoffmedz]

Please bear in mind Bush/Cheney and their NEOCON and MIC handlers need a State of Continuous War to remain in power, as will whomever is slated to follow them.

And of course, Americans are too blinded and distracted by MSM to figure this out.

Seems very odd that dead U.S. troops wrapped in a flag keep these criminals in control?

[godlessclif]

Emanuel Goldstein explained the reason for perpetual war. Norman Mailer puts the same words in the mouth of General Cummings in his novel "Naked and the Dead". That perpetual war is needed to keep people like him in charge.

Sensitive, moralistic Lieutenant Hearn (Cliff Robertson) tries to put a leash on Croft(Aldo Ray), but he's ordered to keep out of the situation by psychotic General Cummings (Raymond Massey), who is convinced that soldiers will fight harder the more they hate their superiors.

[VictorLudorum]

the entire country should not be punished because of a erroneous zone which is controlled by ahmedinejad's faction of iranian intelligen­ce........­..........­. there are leaders that will look into the serious affair of nejads leaning indirectly towards the forces that support secularist lower races from background and offer prizes of us media attention and other world agencies

[PollM]

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

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[getoffmedz]

spam

[ZingoBonMot]

Bush is just a second rate mouthpiece for the corporate cabal led by Cheney. Cheney should be impeached first.

[godlessclif]

Ahmedinejad is the good guy. Bush wants to replace him with an evil puppet that will terrorize the Iranian people like the Shah did.

Why don't conservative get it. American is the bad guy this time. We have elected a taller version of Adolph Hitler.

[Plowboy]

There is absolutely no doubt that an attack is planed. Israel demands it.

[Gary47]

Great. Start another war with the army we didn't have last time.

[accountability]

we had an army
Remember?
We just didn't have the army Rumsfeld wanted.

[Rianna]

One cannot believe anything Con Rice says. She has no credibility, and she has been an incompetent Sec. of State, who has got nowhere in her meaningless jaunts to all parts of the world. We are all going to be very sorry when Bush and Cheney, once again, take matters into their own hands, and attack Iran. Iran, is no Iraq, it will retaliate in frightening ways.

[SeaOats]

Iran can easily make the Green Zone and US FOBs disappear. I wonder if 170,000 dead Americans will be sufficient for Congress to STOP FUNDING THE WAR?

[SeaOats]

Sufficient to IMPEACH?

[Libertysconscience]

Sure just like her so called planned trip to Israel and Palestine to restart the peace talks having to possess knowledge of the IDF's bombing of Syria as cover only to hypocritally invite Syria afterwards to talks about the region without ever inquiring about deaths incurred by the bombing raid(s) such that American media was under a week long news blackout.
See if you can rent a copy of Dr. Strangelove. Then demand your U.S. representative vote for a Constitutional amendment that can recall an unstable president.

[Captain EdwardGraham]

I pledge allegiance to the earth
and all its forms and expressions of life;
the human family
plants
animals
mountains
oceans
prairies
and streams.
I pledge to protect the safety and sanctity
of my mother, the earth
my father, the sky
my brother, the sun
my sister, the moon
and all my relations throughout the universe.
I pledge to cause no harm
and to do good wherever and whenever I can;
to be mindful
in all my interactions.
I pledge allegiance to my self,
as part and parcel
of the whole;
one world
indivisible
with respect and compassion
for all.

[Ramirez]

kumbaya...

[civilbehavior]

amazing.........

can we start memorizing it now?

[VictorLudorum]

your trying to say nejad is from the cleaning service ...?

[kellygrrrl]

Capt, that is your best post EVER!!!

[accountability]

Amen to this captain.

[scofflaser]

this is fantastic, who penned it?

[accountability]

From your lips to ... Pelosi's ears.

Ok, I can live without the Impeachment... though it breaks the law to not impeach and I won't like it, if we can have removal by reason of insanity.

Just as long as the whole administration goes with him.
ugh

[godlessclif]

Blake Edwards said when he made Dr. Strangelove that Curtis LeMay and the whole Strategic Air Command was psychotic.

Sterling Hayden did a great job playing the nutjob General Jack D. Ripper. Great and underrated character actor.

[sparkandy]

I thought I read a couple of weeks ago that France was thinking about starting a war with Iran. Wouldn't it be better for us to let them do it? Then they could surrender in a week or so, then the Brits could go in and pull their behinds out of the fire, using ordnance and weapons and stuff we give them. Then we could go in with a Marshall Plan type of thing that allows big corporations to go in and privitaze everything so they could make wage slaves out of Iranians, and call it a democracy. Then the Iranians would be like the Germans and Japanese were after WWII - totally dependent on the US. That way the working classes of this country could foot the bill and the fat cats of the big coroprations could get richer. It's the American Way.

[Captain EdwardGraham]

Who would JESUS attack?

[springsm]

I think France is working on sanctions that are strict and punishing...but the general opinion seems to be that no sanction will work unless it is joined by Iran's neighbots. I don't know who is saying this...could it be bush's mob?

[ChristIsntComingBack]

That's easy: Jesus would attack the moneychangers. In this case that would be direct attempts on the entire Bush Admin - go Jesus, God loves you! - and the corporations that take our money in order to kill other people in the name of Jesus and Brand America.

[hugs4u]

Jesus would send the Israelis back to the desert to wander for 40 more years to repent their evil ways. They have broke far more UN sanctions then Iraq ever did.

[kellygrrrl]

gee, I wonder who "leaked" that info.?

but but but even France wants to go to war with them...

[WorkingClass]

Pretty good plan sparky.

[godlessclif]

I think the Neocons rigged the French elections.
What happened to Jacque Chirac? Why did the French elect a loonie?

[fortuitous]

The visit from the Pres. of Iran was carefully planned to present a picture of him to Americans as irrational and dangerous-- after all, they're going to need "public support" when they start bombing his country, and demonizing him to a Saddam-like level is an important step in selling another war. Never mind that his role in Iran does not have the power that people assume.

[cindyw]

Add that to the Senate passing a resolution that the Iranian army is a terrorist organization, and the table is set.

[Plowboy]

That was most interesting. ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE COMMITTED NO (repeat, NO!) ACT OF TERRORISM. the Iran Revolutionary Guard is branded "Terrorist" because that well known habitual liar George W. Bush says so.
I think we need old Lutwidge Dodgson to explain this to us.