Hiroshima+plus+60,+meet+Teheran,+Cobban,+JWN

=****Hiroshima + 60, meet Teheran??****=
 * Just World News, Helena Cobban, 26th July, 2005**

Philip Giraldi is a former CIA officer who has spilled some good beans on the plans and goings-on within the Bush administration. In the next-to-last (July 18) issue of //The American Conservative// he wrote an article in which he stated that Dick Cheney's office:

“has 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 includes a large-scale air assault on Iran __employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons.__ ... As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States. Several senior Air Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly appalled at the implications of what they are doing--that Iran is being set up for an unprovoked nuclear attack--but no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections.”

I paused awhile before posting this piece. (Hat-tip to Antiwar.com's Scott Horton for signaling it, and a friend from //American Conservative// for confirming its veracity... The piece is not, unfortunately, on AmCon's website.)

But I paused because I almost couldn't believe my eyes, and I didn't want to be part of a slanderous scare campaign.

However, after my AmCon friend confirmed the existence of the piece, and after I checked out Giraldi a little bit, I have to say that this looks like an entirely serious report.

In just eleven days we'll be marking the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. The idea of an established nuclear-weapons state planning, threatening, or even possibly (God forbid) launching a nuclear attack against a non-nuclear-weapons state that's a signatory of the NPT flies in the face of Washington's commitments under the treaty...

But above and beyond that... Has Dick Cheney completely lost his marbles?

Posted by Helena at 26.07.2005 11:55

From: http://justworldnews.org/archives/001350.html