The Neo-Cons: A Series Of "Unfortunate" Events

Article 21

MISLEADING CONGRESS AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ABOUT THREATS FROM IRAN, AND SUPPORTING TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS WITHIN IRAN, WITH THE GOAL OF OVERTHROWING THE IRANIAN GOVERNMENT

In the lead up to the Iraq war President George Bush admitted to Tony Blair that "the US was thinking of flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in UN colours.  If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach", according to the now infamous leaked memorandum.  This plan never eventuated. Conventional propaganda was sufficient enough to initiate the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003.  Will it be sufficient for an attack on Iran? 

Gary Hart, former Senator and Council on Foreign Relations member, published an article in late 2007 entitled, Unsolicited Advice to the Government of Iran; outlining historical false-flag events exploited by the US government.  On August 7th 1964, the US congress passed a joint resolution, titled The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which granted President Lyndon B. Johnson the authority to conduct military operations in Southeast Asia.  In 2005, NSA declassified reports confirmed that the Gulf of Tonkin incident never happened.  "You might be well advised," Gary Hart suggests to the Iranian government, "to read the history of the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana harbor in 1898 and the history of the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964." 

In the current political atmosphere, President Bush now faces the threat of war crimes charges.  Progressing PNAC plans of Middle East domination and spreading the "theater wars" to Iran, with the possibility of radical social and political repercussions, seems too irresistible for Bush and the neo-cons to refuse.

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