[lbo-talk] Hersh on Bush & Iran

[Josh Narins]

> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 23:19 -0400, Josh Narins wrote:
> > Hersh makes mistakes of fact and logic in his article, which Dr Lewis
> > describes there:
> > http://www.ArmsControlWonk.com/1030/we-are-not-going-to-nuke-iran
> 
> That post assumes that the US would only use nuclear weapons if they
> were military necessary. Do we have any reason to think that's the case?
> There might be political reasons to use nuclear weapons, too:
> 
> "If the Iranians do not back down and the US actually drops the bomb on
> Iran, a moral and political line will be crossed which has held since
> 1945. The US will be able to hold the threat of nuclear attack over
> every country which does not already have strategic nuclear weapons
> targeted on the US. The authority of the US military will be reasserted,
> and what happens in Iraq will become unimportant to world politics."
> 
> From: http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/593/anti-war.htm

If the Americans had an excuse, they'd use it.

The biggest imaginable excuse would be a WMD terror attack on America,
laid at the feet of the Iranians.

BushCo will do what it can to encourage Iranians to do this, including
making threats of a nuclear attack.

But I am not one who believes that the American gov't would do it
itself. Would a fringe, freako group inside the CIA or FBI try it? It
would be hard for any of us to stop them, and BushCo is doing what it
can to empower them and this results in an increased likelihood.