Some Real Thruthiness
Apparently Bushco had an opportunity, a real opportunity to bring Iran, yes that Axis of Evil Iran, into the coalition of the willing. According to an article about two senior Bushco Middle East experts/strategists in Esquire, Iran offered Bushco the following:
“It was an average morning in April, about four weeks into the war. Mann picked up her daily folder and sat down at her desk, glancing at a fax cover page. The fax was from the Swiss ambassador to Iran, which wasn’t unusual — since the U.S. had no formal relationship with Iran, the Swiss ambassador represented American interests there and often faxed over updates on what he was doing. This time he’d met with Sa-deq Kharrazi, a well-connected Iranian who was the nephew of the foreign minister and son-in-law to the supreme leader. Amazingly, Kharrazi had presented the ambassador with a detailed proposal for peace in the Middle East, approved at the highest levels in Tehran.
“A two-page summary was attached. Scanning it, Mann was startled by one dramatic concession after another — “decisive action” against all terrorists in Iran, an end of support for Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, a promise to cease its nuclear program, and also an agreement to recognize Israel.”
Further, Iran tried to cooperate fully with the US after 9/11, offering strategic and logistical support in the hunt for al Qaeda and the battle against the Taliban. It could have reversed 25 years of conflict.
No doubt this was timed to coincide with the decimation of Iraq. I’m sure Iran saw that there was the possibility of a unified Shiite state and the potential to cash in on some of that Iraqi oil. But what the hell is going on here? Bush and Cheney are either criminally insane and need to be removed immediately from duty on the basis that they are not fit, or there is another game here that’s not apparent to the rest of us. Either way, we had an opportunity to step back from the brink of potential global annihilation and we’ve blown it.
Given the beating of the war drums, it wouldn’t surprise me if we have attacked Iran by Christmas.
Posted: October 25th, 2007 under Bushco, Iran, Pigtards.
Comments: 10
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Comment from Groom
Time: October 25, 2007, 1:48 pm
Back channel stuff is like think tanks and national labs; about 10 percent is effective, the rest is money pissed away (or written off in privat sektor). My question is why Esky… why didn’t Harpers or Wanity Fair run wit da ball?
Comment from Max von Schuler-Kobayashi
Time: October 25, 2007, 3:57 pm
You have to admire the Bushies. They are very consistent. They never let pragmaticism, common sense, or reality interfere with a policy.
Comment from Pat
Time: October 25, 2007, 6:33 pm
Frontline ran an excellent program about this subject on Tuesday. It is entitled “Showdown with Iran”, and included comments by Hillary Mann. Unfortunately CNN was showing “Planet in Peril” that night, so a lot of people might have missed the Frontline show. I don’t know if all the PBS stations re-air Frontline shows, but our local PBS does on Saturday afternoon. If you guys get a chance to see this program, it will be well worth your time.
Comment from Wise Merlin
Time: October 26, 2007, 5:57 am
Pat;
I recorded both shows :))
Comment from Wise Merlin
Time: October 27, 2007, 8:10 am
Of Course, I also recorded Bill Moyer’s Journal program on “Blackwater” by Jeremy Scahill, that reports how Blackwater is working IN THE UNITED STATES as a private army for the government. He reports there were 175 Blackwater ARMED security personnel in New Orleans two days after Katrina hit (before FEMA) and LATER Homeland Security gave Blackwater a “private security” contract and a total of 600 ARMED Blackwater troops protecting the wealthy. There were even Israeli commandos hired to set up an ARMED checkpoint outside a wealthy “gated” community in New Orleans.
Ah, the beauty of “private security contractors.”
Comment from timr
Time: October 27, 2007, 10:25 am
90 days and counting down on the Iran war window as postulated bu Seymor Hersh.
Comment from Missy
Time: October 27, 2007, 1:15 pm
Sounds like a deal I remember from somewhere else. Mmmmm, let me see if I can remember. Oh, its North Korea, Kim Jong-Il and Clinton the sucker. Or is it Hitler with Nevel Chamberlin. Liberals are so predictable and gullible.
Comment from Richard Liquor III
Time: October 29, 2007, 3:34 pm
I think bimbo bambi has returned . Is it Missy or Sissy , fill us in on your tours of duty, cutie ?
Comment from Pat
Time: October 30, 2007, 9:25 am
Richard
Bambi’s original name was James. I guess that makes him netro-sexual.
Comment from Richard Liquor III
Time: October 30, 2007, 2:51 pm
So Miss Bambi or Miss Fit, what was so liberal abour Chamberlain ?Typical neo- con clap trap, only half the truth but we’ll tell it anyway.
In the 1918 General Election Chamberlain was elected as the Conservative MP for Ladywood. He refused office under David Lloyd George but accepted the posts Postmaster-General (1923-24) and Minister of Health (1924-29) under Stanley Baldwin. He also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the National Government headed by Ramsay MacDonald (1931-37). He was an efficient administrator abolishing the Poor Law and reorganizing unemployment assistance.
In 1936 the Conservative government feared the spread of communism from the Soviet Union to the rest of Europe. Stanley Baldwin, the British prime minister, shared this concern and was fairly sympathetic to the military uprising in Spain against the left-wing Popular Front government
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