* *Cheney Orders Media To Sell Attack On IranFox News,
Wall Street Journal instructed to launch PR blitz for upcoming military
strike/Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet
Tuesday, September 4, 2007 Dick Cheney
has ordered top Neo-Con media outlets, including Fox Newsand the Wall Street
Journal, to unleash a PR blitz to sell a war with Iran from today, according to Barnett Rubin, the highly
respectedAfghanistan expert at New York University. The New Yorker magazine
reports< http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2007/08/if-there-were-a.html
>that
Rubin had a conversation with a member of a top neoconservative institution in Washington, who told him
that "instructions" had been passed on from the Office of the
Vice-President to roll out a campaign for war with Iran in the week after Labor
Day. "It will be
coordinated with the American Enterprise Institute, the Wall Street Journal, the
Weekly Standard, Commentary, Fox, and the usual suspects, writes Rubin, "It will be
heavy sustained assault on
the airwaves, designed to knock public sentiment into a position from which a war can be
maintained. Evidently they don út
think theyúll ever get
majority support for this they want something like 35-40 percent support, which in their book isþplenty.
Rubin subsequently confirmed with a second source that the propaganda coup had
been launched and the individual, another top Neo-Con at a major think tank,
had this to say about it: ‰¥þI am a Republican. I am a conservative. But Iúm
not a raging lunatic. This is lunatic. ÿ(Article continues below) An organized
mass media campaign to propagandize for a military strike on Iran mirrors
exactly what happened in late 2002 in preparation for the invasion of Iraq and
would be seen as par for the course in anticipation of an attack that
presidential candidate Ron Paul amongst other expert observers fear will take
place within 12 months < /articles/august2007/280807_iran_attack.htm >.President
Bush met directly with talk radio idealogues at the WhiteHouse last year to
push the Neo-Con agenda < http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/us/politics/17radio.html?ex=1318737600&en=a961ba66ef087429&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
>.Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Neal Boortz and Michael Medved
(picturedbelow) amongst others all attended and received their talking points straight
from the President's mouth. Considering the history of the sordid "fake
news" scandal
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2006/290506fake.htm
, where millions of dollars were used to create
pre-packaged government press releases disguised as news, along with the
Armstrong Williams farce http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2005/080105admitserror.htm
,it should surprise no one that such
"instructions" are now being handed out to prepare the public for
another military invasion. The issuance of orders for Neo-Con mass media arms
to push for an assault on Iran also puts the U.S. on red alert for a terror
attack, whether real or manufactured, which Dick Cheney has already promised
will immediately be blamed on Iran no matter who the real culprits are. On
August 1st, 2005 the American Conservative reported http://www.amconmag.com/2005_08_01/article3.html
that Cheney
had tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a
contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist
attack on the United States. The plan involved a massive air strike on Iran
which included the use of nuclear weapons. The publication reported that,
"The response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the
act of terrorism directed against the United States," meaning that any
such attack will immediately be blamed on Iran and any evidence to the contrary
will be buried. The London Times http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2369001.ece
reported on Sunday that the Pentagon had finalized plans for a 3 day blitz
designed to annihilate 1,200 targets in Iran and destroy the country's military
capability. Alexis
Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, said last
week that US military planners were not preparing for ‰¥þpinprick strikes ÿ against Iran‰¥ús nuclear
facilities. ¥þTheyÕre about taking
out the entire Iranian military,
¥ÿ he said.
Debat was speaking at a meeting organised by The National Interest, a conservative foreign policy journal.
He told The Sunday Times that
the US military had concluded: ‰¥þWhether you go for pinprick
strikes or all-out
military action, the reaction from the Iranians will be the same. It was, he added, a ‰¥þvery legitimate strategic
calculus ¥ÿ. Rhetoric regarding a potential military attack on Iran has heated
again over the past week, with President Bush having warned of the risk of
a"nuclear holocaust" if the country was allowed to acquire nuclear
capability. In a speech last Monday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that
a diplomatic push by the world's powers to rein in Tehran's nuclear program was
the only alternative to "an Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad subsequently stated
that a U.S.attack on Iran was "impossible" due to U.S. troops being
tied down in Afghanistan and Iraq. Yesterday, he claimed to have proof that the
U.S. were not planning to attack, bizarrely citing his mathematical skills as an
engineer and faith in God. A January poll by Ipsos found that 40% of Americans
thought it likely that Iran would be attacked http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/040107warwithiran.htm
bythe end of the year. The U.S. has stationed three
aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf, the Nimitz, a nuclear-powered carrier,
John C. Stennis Strike Group, and Dwight D. Eisenhower, a relief carrier. The
U.S. government is openly funding and supporting the activities ofJundullah http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2007/280507usesalqaeda.htm
, a Sunni Al-Qaeda terrorist group formerly headed by the alleged mastermind of
9/11, to carry out bombings in Iran and destabilize Ahmadinejad's power base. The
Iranian Revolutionary Guard military was recently declared to be a terrorist
organization by the White House, another ominous sign that an attack is being
readied.
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