Agence France Presse: US Baiting Iran Retaliation

[marmar]

via CommonDreams:

Published on Monday, February 12, 2007 by the Agence France Presse
US Baiting Iran Retaliation

White House officials are taunting Iran into an action the United States could use as an excuse for an attack, a former security official told Newsweek, the magazine reported.


Iranians carry cartoons of US President George W. Bush and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a rally to mark the 28th anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Tehran. White House officials are taunting Iran into an action the United States could use as an excuse for an attack, a former security official told Newsweek, the magazine reported. (AFP/Behrouz Mehri)
"They intend to be as provocative as possible and make the Iranians do something (the United States) would be forced to retaliate for," Hillary Mann, former director for Iran and Persian Gulf Affairs at the National Security Council, which reports to the White House, told the New York newsweekly.

US relations with Iran have chilled since President George W. Bush placed Iran on an "Axis of Evil," alongside North Korea and Iraq under Saddam Hussein, in a January 2002 speech.

Earlier on Sunday, Bush administration officials in Baghdad claimed that Iranian-built bombs smuggled into Iraq had killed at least 170 US and allied soldiers since June 2004.

US officials also claim Iran is enriching uranium to make nuclear bombs, while the Islamic Republic claims the nuclear fuel will make electricity.

The New York Times reported Friday that administration officials were concerned about especially lethal roadside bombs built in Iran, which borders Iraq. ......(more)

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[denverbill]

1. Look for a Pueblo type incident in my book.

The US will send a ship or plane near or across the Iranian border. The Iranians will fire on it. There will be US dead. Then the US will have to 'defend it's honor' against the 'unprovoked' attack on our brave soldiers/sailors/airmen.

Or I suppose they could dress up a bunch of dead Iraqis in Iranian uniforms, and claim they launched an attack against a radio station in Iraq. Hitler did that with Poland in 1939.

[Jack Rabbit]

2. Holy aluminum tubes, Batman!!

They're lying to us again!!

[bemildred]

3. Duh, you think?

"See that chip on my shoulder? Knock it off! Just knock it off! What are you chicken?"

We all might as well be back in sixth grade.
:puke:

[Judi Lynn]

4. So glad this is being circulated elsewhere!

The more people who know what this monster is up to, the by God better!

Thank you, marmar.