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Cheney's Iranian Terror Scenarios, Take #1
Iranian sub sinks US battleship in Persian Gulf
Bush declares this an 'act of war'
How about another 'Gulf of Tonkin' incident? Like the USS Cole, only better.
The USS Cole was hit by an Israeli Exocet missile to show the seriousness of
the 'war on terror'. Of course a local man in a speedboat with explosives
had to be supplied, to create the false terror story. But the FBI was later
sent to Yemen to cover up any loose ends on this part of the operation.
Meanwhile, you didn't find any interviews with local firemen, like at the
World Trade Center. A 'USS Cole Truth Movement' would have to go to Yemen to
investigate, not very likely! Meanwhile, the core of the plot, the Israeli
Exocet missle, was concealed far outside any sphere of investigation.
The idea here is to sink a US warship in the 'Persian' (='Arabian') Gulf off
the coast of Iran. There is historical precedent--the sinking of the USS
Maine off the coast of Cuba that led to the Spanish-American War. (Funny how
it's always an American battleship off a foreign coast, never a foreign
battleship off the U.S. coast.) And we don't need William Randolf Hearst to
provide the war. We have FOX News! Imagine the headlines: "Iranian sub sinks
US battleship in Persian Gulf; Bush declares this an 'act of war'" etc. etc.
Here's how it goes down. A US warship moves in too close to the Iranian
coast. Naturally, there will be an Iranian sub in the neighborhood. The
presence of the Iranian sub will be well documented by US surveillance
capabilities, top-secret information that will be later released to all
major newspapers. Then a US sub shoots a hole in the US warship. For a major
war, US military personnel have to die, and the ship has to sink. Don't
worry. Submarine crews don't talk--they might drown if they did! Soon US
bombers will be on their way to Iran. There won't be any 'Iran War Truth
Movement'. No local investigation allowed: the Persian Gulf is a war zone!
Meanwhile, hot damn! We'll teach those Iranians a lesson.