November 21, 2006


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

DEATH AND POLITICS

There is evidence the Bush administration encouraged the Israeli incursion into Lebanon because the administration wanted to see how Israeli tactics worked. The administration wanted to assess whether those tactics would work in an attack on Iran. It reminds me of the Germans assisting the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War. The Germans got to test how tactics and weaponry worked on a smaller scale before launching World War II. This administration has total contempt for life, for ethics, for morality, and for truth. This article by Sherwood Ross is at www.smirkingchimp.com:

According to an article in The New Yorker, which is setting records for its brilliant coverage of the Middle East, CheneyBush believed a successful Israeli aerial attack on Hezbollah's underground command-and-control centers could "serve as a prelude to a potential American preemptive attack to destroy Iran's nuclear installations, some of which are also buried deep underground." Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh said Cheney reportedly was enthusiastic about the chance to learn from Israel's attack.

So maybe President Bush let on more than he knew when he said the conflict represented "a moment of opportunity." Indeed, the Pentagon expedited the shipment of bombs and fuel for the Israeli warplanes. The scheme was "the mirror image of what the United States has been planning for Iran," a former senior intelligence official told Hersh.

Israel believed by targeting Lebanon's infrastructure, such as highways, fuel depots, bridges, and the Beirut airport, it could get Lebanon's Christian and Sunni populations to turn on Hezbollah, Hersh wrote. But the bombing only united the Lebanese against Israel.

Even though it has strongly denied it, the White House was "closely involved" in the planning of Israel's invasion -- planning that started well before Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers last July 12th.