Hersh: Cheney's Office Considered Disguising Navy Seals As Iranians To Provoke War

Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh recently told Think Progress that a recent meeting in Vice President Cheney's office on the topic of how to provoke a war with Iran yielded some interesting results:

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.

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Comments

[ymax]

Chaney want to be McBu$h VP...........After all he is Mc$ame.

[westreal]

Why wasn't this headlined on HuffPost? This is my first time hearing about this.

[Bjarni]

False Flag Operations, Sounds Familiar, wonder if it has happened before.

US History
Operation Northwoods
USS Liberty
Gulf of Tonkin

Germany
Reichstag Fire

Currently debated Conspiracy's
9/11
Pearl Harbour

[Bjarni]

forgot
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20051015&articleId=1094

[WasteNJ]

Why do you think SEALs are the US's best unconventional warriors? They can/will do whatever they are needed for. Fortunately shooting at other Americans is probably not one of those things, but you better believe there are plenty of ex-SEALs and DELTA working as contractors who have done this type of thing before.

Cheney is reading from the Gulf of Tonkin script. Not very imaginative.

[dadw5boys]

This what they have Black Water for!!!!!!!!!!

[mosh]

Maybe this is all a bad dream? Some kind of shared paranoid delusion? Count to three everybody and let's wake up!

[ThunderclapNewman]

This really should be the main thread.

[Podewumun]

Yes, it should, but everyone was too busy debating the evils of Wallyworld or the latest Mc Cain ad gaffe. Everytime I check in on this site it looks more and more like yesterday's USA Today.

[ElPerro]

Nothing surprising about this at all.

[bitabingbitabangbitaboom]

Death Vadar strikes again

[philipwitak]

okay then - how about this?

we just dress him up as a quail, and maybe he might 'execute' himself .

[philipwitak]

note: they made me use 'execute' in place of 'sh*ot himself in the face'

[mosh]

Let's hope the powers of darkness (not you huffpo!) are not monitoring this site. If so, see you in gitmo, philip, or some black site in paraguay.

[mosh]

Let's expose him as the traitor he is and feed him to the navy SEALS.

[mosh]

One has to ask oneself what a war with Iran would accomplish for this administration?

For bush, it might mean the fulfillment of some kind of end of days, god talks through me, prophecy. But what's in it for dick and his neocon pals??

The straits of hormuz would be blockaded, the price of oil would skyrocket, the value of the dollar would plummet, food prices would quadruple, there would be riots in the street - - hey wait a minute - -!

Perhaps a war with Iran would be just the excuse this administration needs to declare martial law before the November election? Why not? If dick and his pals can sit around spinning ways to murder hundreds of thousands of innocent people, then why not war as a means of staying in power? What's dick gonna do - spend the rest of his days improving his golf game? Besides, I hear they have a whole underground country club set up in their bunker in Arizona.

A war with Iran would lead to chaos which would be the perfect excuse to declare martial law. It is the logical conclusion of the neocon agenda and a fitting end (or beginning) to the imperial presidency.

[mosh]

I just can't fathom why this administration would want a war with Iran at this point in time??

What would it accomplish?

Of course, if we take bush at his word, then he is looking to fulfill some kind of end of days biblical armeggeden in the middle east. So, that could well be his egotistical motivation. But what's dick up to?

Can't be the oil. If we go to war with Iran the price of oil will skyrocket, the straits of Hormuz will be cut off and the dollar will plunge while food prices will quadruple. So why dick, why?

Perhaps a war with Iran would give this administration the excuse it needs to declare martial law before the November election? Why not? If dick and his buddies already sit around discussing new lies into war then why is creating an 'excuse' to declare martial law out of the question?

Declaring martial law takes the concept of the imperial presidency to its logical conclusion.

[philipwitak]

a much better idea. let's disguise cheney as a quail. maybe he'll shoot himself in the face.

[Chavez08]

Why do Republicans sponsor terrorism? Why does McCain hate freedom so much?

[mosh]

power

think martial law

[WIpatriot]

Its a means to an end, therefore perfectly justifiable.

[dadw5boys]

Because they know that chaos brings a power vacuum which they can fill with someone who will help them make money in another country.

[TchoupitoulasCanal]

What is going on with this man? Did he take a trip to the poppy fields of Afghanistan and linger a little bit too long or what?

[JiminNC]

Wonder how the SEALS feel about it.

[strandwolf]

I'd wager it would suit those moral degenerates perfectly. They've beaten and tortured prisoners to death.
http://ancapistan.typepad.com/photos/navy_seals_torturing_iraq/index.html

Oops, my bad. "Honor the troops"!