Our Favorite VP

[killerweed420]

Source: Thinkprogress.org

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.

During the journalism conference event, I asked Hersh 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.

Geez. When will this kind of stuff stop?

killerweed420 Reviewed by killerweed420 on 08-03-2008. Our Favorite VP Source: Thinkprogress.org 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 Rating: 5

[dragonrider]

Geez. When will this kind of stuff stop?

Around mid January, 2009.

[killerweed420]

I bet not.lol

[IrieIrie]

History just repeats itself. Sounds like another Gulf of Tonkin Resolution/Incident type of thing is coming.

Oh and if you want to know when it'll end, December 21st, 2012. You've learned about the Mayan doomsday prophecy havn't you? They had a good special on the History Channel, also known as THC lol.

[killerweed420]

History just repeats itself. Sounds like another Gulf of Tonkin Resolution/Incident type of thing is coming.

Oh and if you want to know when it'll end, December 21st, 2012. You've learned about the Mayan doomsday prophecy havn't you? They had a good special on the History Channel, also known as THC lol.

I'll grab my lawn chair and some weed and sit out on the patio and watch it happen.lol

[TurnyBright]

It simply WON'T stop until our economic system is overhauled.

Our current system results in overproduction without demand, leaving warehouses full of goods and everybody who SHOULD be buying them knee-deep in debt.

So the government, in order to keep production going, creates "free" demand by declaring a war. That way they can keep producing and send goods (bombs, tanks... men) "over there" without needing payment.

Meanwhile, all that production is being financed by loans that the gov't takes from the banks, who charge interest (money that doesn't exist and never will, except in the form of debt) on the money that they literally create by fiat. They can do this, of course, because they've got that interest promised to them. The interest that will only ever be paid by taking out another loan somewhere else.

Insanity, and what does the citizen get for it? Meaningless wars and no money to buy food (which will be thrown away).