Crime of the Century: Are Bush & Cheney Planning Early Attack on Iran?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_dave_lin_061223_crime_of_the_century.htm
by Dave Lindorff
Back on October 9, I wrote in The Nation that it looked like the Bush-
Cheney gang, worried about the November election, was gearing up for
an unprovoked attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, with a carrier
strike group led by the USS Eisenhower being ordered to depart a
month early from Norfolk, VA to join the already-on-station USS
Enterprise. That article was based on reports from angry sailors
based on the Eisenhower who had leaked word of their mission.
There was, thankfully, no attack on Iran before Election Day, but it
is starting to look like I may have been right about the plan after
all, but wrong about the timing.
As the threat of a catastrophic US election-eve attack on Iran
started to look increasingly likely, reports began to trickle out of
the Pentagon that the generals and admirals were protesting. They
knew...