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Will Israel Blow Up Something and Falsely Blame It On Iran?

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According to U.S. officials, Israel is training and supporting Iranian terrorists who are trying to topple the Iranian government. Those Israeli-funded terrorists have faked documents to falsely indicate that Iran is building a nuclear bomb. 1

Israel has admitted to previous use of false flag attacks to justify war against Middle Eastern nations.

For example,   Israel admits that an Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then left behind “evidence” implicating the Arabs as the culprits (one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to identify the bombers, and several of the Israelis later confessed) (and see this and this).

Numerous high-level government officials have warned that a false flag may be launched against Iran to start a war: 2

  • Ron Paul has warned of a “Gulf of Tonkin type incident” in Iran
  • The highly influential Brookings Institution wrote a report in 2009 called “Which Path to Persia?” which states (pages 84-85):

It would be far more preferable if the United States could cite an Iranian provocation as justification for the airstrikes before launching them. Clearly, the more outrageous, the more deadly, and the more unprovoked the Iranian action, the better off the United States would be.Of course, it would be very difficult for the United States to goad Iran into such a provocation without the rest of the world recognizing this game, which would then undermine it. (One method that would have some possibility of success would be to ratchet up covert regime change efforts in the hope that Tehran would retaliate overtly, or even semi-overtly, which could then be portrayed as an unprovoked act of Iranian aggression.)

  • A number of very high-level former intelligence officers – including several that personally briefed presidents every day on matters of national security – stated that better communications between the U.S. and Iran were needed to “reduce the danger of … covert, false-flag attack”

One of America’s top constitutional and military law experts – Jonathan Turley – writes today:

Many critics have argued that there is a concerted effort to push the United States into a war with Iran by supporters of Israel. Patrick Clawson, director of research for the highly influential pro-Israel Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) think tank, seemed intent to prove those rumors true this week in comments as a luncheon on “How to Build US-Israeli Coordination on Preventing an Iranian Nuclear Breakout.” Clawson casually discusses how to create a false flag operation to push the U.S. into war to overcome any reluctance by the public. We have been discussing how many leaders like Senator Joe Lieberman had begun to use the same rhetoric that led to the last two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and how the suggest timing of an attack has been tied to the presidential election.

 

In his remarks, Clawson helpfully lists a series of historical events used to push the country into war like the Gulf of Tonkin incident that gave us the Vietnam War. Clawson expressed his frustration in acknowledging that it is “[v]ery hard for me to see how the United States President can get us to war with Iran.” However, there is hope. Clawson explains that the “traditional way” to get the country into a war is through false flags or manufactured incidents where Americans are killed. Thus, he observes, “we are in the game of using covert means against the Iranians, we could get nastier about it. So, if in fact the Iranians aren’t going to compromise, it would be best if somebody else started the war.”

 

The fact that one of the leading analysis for the WINEP would feel comfortable in making such comments is itself quite chilling. It indicates that such discussions have become sufficiently regular that it has creeped into public discussion. It is a measure of the secret pressure building to push this country into a third major war despite our crippling economic conditions and losses in military personnel. The assumption in Washington is that neither Romney nor Obama could oppose such a war. Even if Obama does not publicly support Israel, the assumption is that political allies of Israel in Washington can guarantee that we would offer extensive military loans and intelligence. Even if there is a delay in such military loans and support, the assumption is that Israel can go to war with the understanding that the United States will cover a significant portion of the costs. Moreover, in his remarkably candid remarks, Clawson shows how the U.S. can easily be forced into direct combat by pushing Iran to simply kill some Americans or sink a few of our ships. Then members would be clamoring for revenge. Notably, the Israelis have been ratcheting up the war rhetoric in pushing Iran, which predictably has now reserved the right to engage in a preemptive strike not just against Israeli but U.S. interests. We would then, again, find ourselves in a war without any public debate or collective decision.

 

While Clawson adds a passing caveat that he is not advocating such an approach, his remarks are clearly designed to show how the group can get the United States into a war for Israel if only we can get Iran to kill some of our citizens or soldiers. Those people are of course expendable props in Clawson’s realpolitik.

 

By the way, Clawson has been enlisted to give his insightful analysis at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. He is also a member of the National Defense University’s Institute for National Strategic Studies. The World Bank connection is particularly interesting given the history with Paul Wolfowitz who pushed the U.S. into two disastrous wars in the Bush Administration and was rewarded with being made the head of the World Bank.

 

It is the callous disconnect that is most chilling in these remarks. Thousands of U.S. soldiers have died or have been crippled for life in these wars that have left the country near bankruptcy (and increasingly hostile “allies” in Afghanistan and Iraq). Those casualties and costs, however, appear immaterial in the discussion of supporting Israel in a war against Iran.

 


1  Top American and Israeli military and intelligence officials actually say that:

2   False flag attacks have been carried out against Iran in the past.  For example, the CIA admits that it hired Iranians in the 1950′s to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected prime minister

3 Saudi Arabia has also been supporting terrorists.

 

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Fri, 09/28/2012 - 00:25 | 2837686 kicksroute66
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Fuck you

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 00:55 | 2837713 George Washington
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toldyouiranhasbomb Netanyahu Satire

noddin yahoo bomb Netanyahu Satire

 

Click Israel Is Over Reacting

We understand, respect and empathize with the historical fact that Jews suffered horrendous persecution and suffering.

But Israeli prime minister Netanyahu’s “red line” graphic presented to the United Nations today is over-the-top.

Says who?

Top American and Israeli military and intelligence officials say:

  • Despite its heated rhetoric – Iran is a “rational actor”. For example, in 2011, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified before Congress that “we continue to judge Iran’s nuclear decision-making is guided by a cost-benefit approach.” In February 2012, General Ron Burgess, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told Congress that “the agency assesses Iran is unlikely to initiate or provoke a conflict.” Also in February, General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said: “We are of the opinion that Iran is a rational actor”
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  • In reality, hotheads have been claiming for more than 30 years that Iran was on the verge of having the bomb.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 04:54 | 2837920 The Alarmist
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I'm sure if you scrounged around the house you would have most of the components of a nuclear weapon .... that doesn't mean you actually have one, much less that you intend to use one.

90% of a bomb is essentially a paperweight.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 03:51 | 2837869 bank guy in Brussels
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Hilarious photos of former Israeli furniture salesperson, Bibi Netanyahu ... Absolutely a hoot

Thank You GW

Bibi Netanyahu, who was mysteriously and suddenly elevated out of the furniture business, by his CFR contacts he made at school in America, into a meteorically-rising political star who became Prime Minister of Israel

His appearance with that cartoon bomb drawing at the UN, showed that you can take the furniture salesman out of the store

But he still always has his laugh-inducing sales pitch handy ...

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 10:50 | 2838835 DollarMenu
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The sales presentation is much better with a laugh track:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KBsCxLq41I&feature=player_embedded#!

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 00:24 | 2837684 10mm
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Remember this,remember that.WTF,like we need touchy fuckin slogans to remember.Heres one,remember to wipe your ass.Thats one to remember.If Americans were to remember,we wouldn't be in this fuckin mess.Oh,remember to vote.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 00:10 | 2837661 MrSteve
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how about a nice game of chess?

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 11:00 | 2838886 falak pema
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E4? D4, C4, F4....the most daring one is the last one. Bobby Fischer loved it.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 00:20 | 2837679 sansnobel
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Good one MrSteve..Touche  LMFAO

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 00:03 | 2837650 ShakaZulu
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If I was them, I wouldn't be listening to all you peasants whining and carrying on.  I would've DONE IT already!!  Not that it's the right thing to do mind you....but just saying.

Thu, 09/27/2012 - 23:57 | 2837638 stocktic
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Was it not the Iranians who were about to initiate a false flag attack on US soil against the Saudi Ambassador to the United States??  I suspect the Iranian attack was meant to drive a diplomatic wedge between the US and Saudi Arabia. The Iranians were caught & the Saudi regime has not forgotten.  Missed the reference to this incident in your article, Mr Washington. 

The risk in a false flag attack is that the country initiating the clandestine affair is caught red-handed (the Israelis in Egypt and the Iranians in Washington DC).  The political capital lost (when exposure occurs) makes America's national debt look trivial.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 00:09 | 2837660 George Washington
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The "Iranian plot" is a dog which doesn't hunt ...

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 00:17 | 2837672 blindman
Fri, 09/28/2012 - 00:07 | 2837658 eatapeach
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Wasn't the guy pretty credibly shown to be a bumbling idiot?

Thu, 09/27/2012 - 23:52 | 2837622 The Continental
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Netanyahu the supreme hypocrite had the unmitigated gall to lecture the UN about the dangers of a nuclear Iran, complete with a thoroughly condescending and cartoonish graphic aid, and a plot hatched purely out of the twisted Zionist imagination, all while never mentioning Israeli’s multi-hundred nuclear warhead arsenal built with technology stolen from the US. Israel refuses to acknowledge this arsenal and refuses to sign the Non-proliferation Treaty (Iran is a signer in good standing).

 

Israel, a rogue nuclear nation, born of terrorism, built on a total lie called the Holocaust. Israel, perpetrator and chief beneficiary of the 9/11 attacks. Israel, instigator of wars for profit and responsible for the deaths of millions. Israel, the world’s true apartheid racist state that would make the Nazis proud.

 

If there is any kharmic justice in this universe, one of Israel’s stolen nukes will detonate and wipe that shitty little nation off the planet. The world can then utter a sigh of relief.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 12:41 | 2839309 omniversling
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preferably a more advanced neutron type device that crispy microwaved neo-scion-nasty saturnists, but didnt harm ordinary peaceful inhabitants of that piece of shared middle eastern turf...

Stolen nukes? Remember this piece of exceptionally heady froth from April? Heard anything since? I thought at the time that THIS was going to be the mother of all false flags...popcorn anyone?

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/04/30/raw-reports-nuclear-threat-from-...

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 03:07 | 2837827 Ar-Pharazôn
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they stolen nuclear material from the french..... not the usa

 

that happened in the mediterranean sea (i think in the '70s)

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 01:18 | 2837745 Joe A
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You Sir, are a nazi yourself.

Thu, 09/27/2012 - 23:57 | 2837636 strannick
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Awesome. Sometimes the best rebuttal is just giving someone the chance to speak. You did manage to spell ''proliferation'' correctly though, bravau.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 05:55 | 2837950 johnQpublic
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bravau?

bravo perhaps

you have spoken

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 10:34 | 2838741 mess nonster
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Bravau. Thats Hebrew for "right-on".

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 14:47 | 2839724 Tsukato
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Hahahaha!!! Good one champ! You showed that fucking GOY :)

Really glad I'm not you. Have a nice day friend :)

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 14:42 | 2839701 Tsukato
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Hahahaha!!! Good one champ! You showed that fucking GOY :)

Really glad I'm not you. Have a nice day friend :)

Thu, 09/27/2012 - 23:41 | 2837599 eatapeach
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Share the prospect of this with your friends, and do it now. Then casually mention it on a weekly basis. Keep the prospect of a false flag in the consciousness, and that might well help prevent war.

Thu, 09/27/2012 - 23:52 | 2837623 Nikao7
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Great idea Eat...  But I will wager that even then most would soon do a 180 back to the comfortable "lie".  Americans love to be comfortable in their world view,  truth be damned.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 00:13 | 2837664 eatapeach
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The great idea is Gee-Dub's, as he wrote it. I'm just up on his shoulders.

Hey, it might work.

Thu, 09/27/2012 - 23:35 | 2837593 New World Chaos
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Watch carefully.  Within 5 minutes of the attack, they will have staged footage of Romeny in a flight suit, rescuing surviving crew of the USS Enterprise.  Obama will call for a diplomatic solution because that's what will be on the teleprompter.  This is how they could get a more reliable puppet into the White House.  The rubes would eat it up.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 00:27 | 2837689 alien-IQ
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Flight suit + Magic Underwear = Superhero?

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 05:44 | 2837751 New World Chaos
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Maybe he'll be reading "My Pet Goat" to schoolkids.  He'll rip off his clothes revealing Sylvester Stallone's Rambo suit of fake muscles, plus gold spandex magic underwear with a red "R" covering his enormous codpiece. 

"Reptile Man here to save the day!  I can shapeshift into any policy position for a price!  I can mind control sheeple into thinking my policies are good for them!  I can... um.."  Reptile Man turns to his trusty Mossad sidekick, Honest Iago, who whispers in his ear and hands him a flight suit with $100 trillion Zimbabwe dollars sticking out of a pocket.

"I can smite the enemies of God's chosen terrorist state!  Ready, Magic Underwear! Away!" and he blasts into the sky on an assrocket of fairy sparkles.

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Seriously though, Israel needs America to expend the last of its strength fighting this war BEFORE the controlled demolition of the financial system.

P.S.  Bush's deer-in-the-headlights performance on 9/11 was set up to deflect conspiracy theories.  Nobody told him in advance because they knew he wasn't smart enough to play dumb.  Perhaps Cheney even had him marked for death but something went wrong.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 06:00 | 2837953 johnQpublic
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let me remind you, 'my pet goat' book had the american flag on the cover

he held it upside down for all to see

the international signal of distress

 

bushie didnt know shit 'til it was going down

then they took him on a nice roundabout flight, after which he was 'on board' with the plan(or replaced with a double...note how much more illiterate he was after 9/11)

 

and thats my personal conspiracy theory(the book part, not the double)

enjoy

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 12:52 | 2839330 omniversling
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Was that this spectacular scene sir? Or the lower obscene scene sir?

 

I, pet goat II

vimeo.com/44583147

 

http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/schoolvideo.html

 

George W. Bush at Booker Elementary School( 9/11/01)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IedVRYUNWUU

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 08:41 | 2838142 New World Chaos
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Didn't know that about the flag- interesting.  YouTube doesn't have enough detail.  Also interesting how they used a reading lesson to get all the kids to chant "kite hit steel plane must" and then bow after reading "The Pet Goat".  Just a strange synchronicity?  I'm sure Alestair Crowley would have something to say about it.

Maybe Bush started drinking or even using drugs again after 9/11.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 08:49 | 2838196 tip e. canoe
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look what i just found:

http://ac2012.com/

"If 1% of voters write in “Aleister Crowley,” then his message of Liberty will be heard around the world, as amazed media report a groundswell of support for someone they thought was not only dead and British, but still the wickedest man in the world. We don’t actually imagine he will get that many votes, but that’s beside the point. Ceci n’est pas une campagne politique"

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 09:29 | 2838363 New World Chaos
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I'm too far away to know anything about hometown politics so I was thinking of voting all third parties plus write-in votes for Satan whenever there is only a (R) or (D) on the ballot.  Why vote for the lesser evil?  But now that you mention it, Satan already rules this planet and most of his shit is pretty lame.  Aleister Crowley would at least inspire more fucking.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 10:29 | 2838716 mess nonster
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An up-tick for the diabolically sharp humor. Why vote for the lessor evil indeed? if anything, that kind of thinking only keeps us mired in mediocrity.

Thu, 09/27/2012 - 23:37 | 2837592 Bear
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I can see why the WH would like a real flash up in October ... to make Obama look like a tough on terror type, so maybe we will have a covert US led false flag ... but I can't see why Israel would gain anything by inciting a fist fight right now. I don't think they would want to do anything to make Obama look good and BB said yesterday that Iran wouldn't be ready until next summer (I think a signal that nothing is going down now) and the phony missile launch last week was just exactly stellar. 

After the election the whole world changes ... with more flexibility all around

 

Thu, 09/27/2012 - 23:42 | 2837602 sansnobel
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We will see I guess.  If the Bibi launches an attack, you know that he is meddeling in US foreign policy and trying to accomplish something.  It could be that Obammy gave him permission and Obammy can ride in on his white horse, but I think Bibi going in without Obama's consent will be an all out attempt to push the electorate to Romney.  If he where going to try to work with Obama he would have had to start that process long ago.  Bibi obviously would rather have a bloodthirsty warmonger on his side in Romney than a feckless moron like Obama. 

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 01:06 | 2837730 bankruptcylawyer
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i'll make you 1000 dollar bet against israel attacking iran before the elections. they are six weeks away. netanyu was on tv at the u.n. today explaining only one specific thing---alluding to it with many unspecific sentences and paragraphs about a hole bunch of other factoids-------, that iran will not have a nuke in 6 weeks.

 

what he meant was. "i really want to attack and so should you but not' before the elections" that's basically what he said. yea. watch the speach and then tell me if you want to take the bet. 

 

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 10:26 | 2838691 mess nonster
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Cryptic, but Israel will attack- the book of Daniel predicts it, 11:40-45. But Israel will be restrained until the servants of God have been sealed in their foreheads. The timing is not up to Israel, but rather, it is up to God. Were an invisible hand not holding back the winds of strife, israel would have attacked a long, long time ago.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 15:05 | 2839771 Tsukato
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COOKOO! COOKOO! (insert circus music)

I KNEW IT! YOU"RE ONE OF THOSE ZIO=CHRISTIANS! HAHAHA!

GET BENT FUCKTARD!

Thu, 09/27/2012 - 23:57 | 2837639 Bear
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I just can't see a real downside for Obama ... Israel attacks, Obama saber rattles, media applauds him as hero of Israel, he looks strong, supports Israel and carries Florida in a landslide.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 00:26 | 2837688 sansnobel
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Yeah, but polls are rigged just like elections.  At this point who the hell knows.  Romney aint gonna be very appealing to the average American getting free birth control and free health care and free this and that.  I think people actually are dumb enough to believe Obama will pay their fucking bills.  Even if he has to have Benny bucks print it up it will not register because the average American aint got the intelligence to even understand the basics of what "money" even is.  It's been dumbed down for a reason.  It makes control and central planning that much easier for our central planning overlords.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 00:57 | 2837721 Bear
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I couldn't agree more ... except, I think 'Benny Bucks' (thanks for the term) will pay for oh so much stuff until .............................. you fill in the blank

Thu, 09/27/2012 - 23:28 | 2837582 sansnobel
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Wow Jew baiting is great entertainment.  They come out of the wood work when you know how to really rattle their cage

Thu, 09/27/2012 - 23:52 | 2837624 George Washington
Fri, 09/28/2012 - 00:13 | 2837663 sansnobel
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Maybe I should try politics George what ya think?

Thu, 09/27/2012 - 23:20 | 2837569 a growing concern
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<-- Survey says yes.

<-- Survey says no.

Thu, 09/27/2012 - 23:31 | 2837586 strannick
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Another typically spiteful George Washington piece, bypassing incisive insight into the pertinent issues at large that ZH is reknowned for, to instead focus on petty hatreds and inciting partisan ideologues. Talk about false flags.  

Thu, 09/27/2012 - 23:59 | 2837641 George Washington
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Nice job, sir, ignoring what the heads of the American and Israeli military and intelligence agencies say: 

  • Despite its heated rhetoric – Iran is a “rational actor”. For example, in 2011, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified before Congress that “we continue to judge Iran’s nuclear decision-making is guided by a cost-benefit approach.” In February 2012, General Ron Burgess, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told Congress that “the agency assesses Iran is unlikely to initiate or provoke a conflict.” Also in February, General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said: “We are of the opinion that Iran is a rational actor”

In addition:

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