Sy Hersh: Bush Plans War on Iran

Posted on April 10, 2006

The hot topic on the Sunday talk shows was Sy Hersh's new article in The New Yorker in which Hersh says that President Bush has plans to go to war with Iran, and will use tactical nukes to take out any sites suspected as being connected with a nuclear weapons program. The article futher states that the U.S. military brass is vehemently opposed to the plan and is apparently leaking to the press left and right to put a stop to Bush's "Messianic" plan.

Many military and diplomatic experts cited believe that the situation is so precarious in Iraq right now, that if the U.S. drops a nuke of any kind, the Middle East is going to explode into World War III. Our military is overextended and has a serious shortage of both recruits and officers. We're spending $6 billion a month in Iraq and not getting any oil out of the country because of that pesky undeclared civil war that's raging.

When top military leaders start chatting up Sy Hersh, it certainly appears that the military brass has serious questions about the competence and leadership ability of the White House. It's time for some cool logic, not more messianic zeal. After all, we managed a Cold War with the U.S.S.R. very nicely indeed. Soviet projects mysteriously "failed." There was sabotage. We used our spies. There is simply no need to wage yet another expensive, pointless hot war that will kill more American men and women when effectively managed, deniable covert operations could accomplish far more. We negotiate in good faith, and make sure Iran's weapons program (if it even has a viable one, which is debatable) never gets off the ground.

And if all that hasn't raised your blood pressure quickly enough, you can always go watch the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens take to the streets today across the United States to demand rights under the U.S. Constitution which -- by the way -- does not apply to them.