My new (July 7 & 14) issue of The New Yorker arrived yesterday. It contains an article by award-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh titled Preparing the Battlefield. In the article, Hersh tells us that last year Congress authorized the use of as much as $400 million to escalate covert operations against Iran. The operations were designed to "destabilize the country's religious leadership" and gather intelligence about Iran's suspected nuclear-weapons program.
Yikes.
Later in the article, Hersh points out that "[the] request for funding came in the same period in which the Administration was coming to terms with a National Intelligence Estimate, released in December, that concluded that Iran had halted its work on nuclear weapons in 2003."
Ironic.
And scary.
And a little bit of deja vu.
Back in early 2003, Bush had an itch to after Iraq, and look what that got us. 4,113 dead troops and many more still there in harm's way.
Now he's got an itch for Iran. What will that get us?
That would-be Texas cowboy is out of control, with six more months in office. Heaven help us all.
For more info:
On June 30, Amy Goodman interviewed Seymour Hersh on her radio/TV show Democracy Now!
>> Read the transcript, or download the audio or video stream.
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