"The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President 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. … The response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism…."
This shocker was written by Philip Giraldi, an intelligence analyst with the respected firm of Cannistraro Associates for THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE magazine.
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August 1, 2005
Taking Down the Neocons
Federal probes will be their downfall

by Justin Raimondo

The War Party is facing disaster on a number of fronts, both foreign and domestic: in Iraq, the stubborn defiance of the insurgency and squabbling political factions underscores the failure of the occupation and its unraveling into an all-out civil war. Under the guise of "federalism," the split-up of Iraq into three separate states – the Shi'ite south, the Kurdish enclave, and the no-man's-land of the Sunni Triangle – proceeds apace. Iranian influence is growing, and the government of Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari is already calling for an American withdrawal, albeit not a precipitous one... http://tinyurl.com/8clpx
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