The author would make a great ghost writer for John La Carre or Robert Ludlum; however, his argument rests on so many assertions which aren't even substantiated in the most important cases with footnotes. The article is written with impressive creative license and an aim apparently toward sounding believable to the already converted believer in the gospel of the omnipotent neocon cabal (even claims they call themselves cabalists! That's hillarious!).
In a nutshell: Great espionage fiction (kudos to the writer for that!) but if it were so easily proven and so obviously so, well, let's just say it wouldn't be such a juicy scoop for Rolling Stone, and might have a bit more meat to it of the kind that actually persuades skeptics and does not merely play to the paranoia and predispositions of its intended audience. - Bob ! -----Original Message----- ! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Arnold ! Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 1:21 AM ! To: 'ProFox Email List' ! Subject: [OT] all we've seen so far is just a prelude ! ! ! "Even before the bombs fell on Baghdad, a group of senior Pentagon ! officials were plotting to invade another country. Their ! covert campaign ! once again relied on false intelligence and shady allies. But ! this time, ! the target was Iran. BY JAMES BAMFORD" ! ! http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/10962352/iran_the_n ! ext_war/1 ! ! Bamford puts together a lot of stuff some of us have seen before, but ! he's a pretty good writer with a lot of facts and an ! absorbing case that ! Iran duped the neocons (via Chalabi) into the Iraq invasion so Saddam ! would be ousted and Iraq would fall under Iran's control ... But that ! the neocons have long been working on getting us to invade ! Iran ... and ! how very close we are to doing exactly that. That is, the plan is very ! much alive and in motion, witness all the reminders of where Hezbollah ! is getting weapons and money from. ! ! In a nutshell, the ME war is going to widen, perhaps with Syria first, ! but ultimately the neocons are targeting Iran. The article ends with a ! neocon (Ledeen) saying: "Only the United States can accomplish it," he ! concluded. "There is no other way." Then you'll see Ledeen's ! rebuttal to ! the article, and Bamford's response to the rebuttal. ! ! I don't know if anyone else sees this writing all over the wall, but ! that ME war is going to expand to include at least Iran and at most ! several countries. In case anyone hasn't noticed, we don't have the ! troops to invade a country of 60 million people, so that ! leaves just one ! choice: nukes. ! ! If you're like me, this whole thing has been absolutely unbelievable ! since the very beginning, yet it actually happened anyway. Now it's ! becoming clear that all we've seen so far is just a preclude. ! ! ! Bill ! ! ! [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
