by Ian Mosley

It’s like some form of Oriental water torture that Dick Cheney just approved for interrogations. Just when the price of oil begins to slide downward as the world breathes easier as Bush gets closer to leaving office (we hope) –some mysterious intelligence source comes up with a report that George Bush is about to launch an unprovoked, possibly nuclear attack on Iran.

The Jerusalem Post reports: “The Dutch intelligence service, the AIVD, has called off an operation aimed at infiltrating and sabotaging Iran’s weapons industry due to an assessment that a US attack on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program is imminent…The report claimed that the Dutch operation had been ‘extremely successful,’ and had been stopped because the US military was planning to hit targets that were connected with the Dutch espionage action… The impending air-strike on Iran was to be carried out by unmanned aircraft within weeks, the report claimed, quoting well placed sources.”

When the US attacked Serbia with our high-tech arsenal. The Serbs rigged up microwave ovens with their doors open pointing skyward, causing us to waste a fortune in missiles designed to take out air defense systems. Even more money was wasted on destroying phony plywood tanks and other decoys that we spotted from 17,000 feet. In one incident, our F16s wiped out a refugee column of Albanians as our Intelligence analysts were tricked by misleading radio traffic put out by the Serbs. We even lost one of our top secret F117 stealth fighters as the Serbs figured out a way to track it and shoot it down.

Sometimes fighting a war exposes our incompetence to the world, and our highest technology stealth weapons can crash on enemy terrain –only to be pieced back together and sold to Red China.

A war on Iran will involve dubious intelligence from similar high altitude reconnaissance. If we wage a war on Iran and fail to destroy all their centrifuges and all their nuclear facilities, which have likely been moved deep inside caves inside mountains, the Iranians will retaliate by starting a nuclear weapons program. We will have (stupidly) created a worse in Iran than if we did nothing, much like we did by waging war on Iraq. So far, the Iranians have allowed inspectors and are only doing low-level enrichment for nuclear energy. Iran has large deposits of uranium and nuclear energy makes sense for them. In fact, we were helping the Iranians build nuclear reactors at Bushehr in the 1970s shortly before the Shah was overthrown.

The Post article continues “On Friday, Ma’ariv reported that Israel had made a strategic decision to deny Iran military nuclear capability and would not hesitate ‘to take whatever means necessary’ to prevent Teheran from achieving its nuclear goals. According to the report, whether the United States and Western countries succeed in thwarting the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions diplomatically, through sanctions, or whether a US strike on Iran is eventually decided upon, Jerusalem has begun preparing for a separate, independent military strike.”

I always knew it would go down like that. The Jews would attack and start the war and drag us into it. That way Bush wouldn’t be forced to lie in public again, babbling stupid and incompetent excuses for doing what he has already decided to do in his whiskey-addled brain.

One can count on the fingers of one hand, the number of US politicians, who have the backbone to condemn Israel for a criminal act of aggression against Iran.