Dana Priest Mocks Liberals For Taking Seriously The Threat Of An Attack On Iran
Dana Priest Mocks Liberals For Taking Seriously The Threat Of An Attack On Iran
During a Washignton Post online chat today, war and intelligence correspondent Dana Priest ridiculed the idea that Bush might attack Iran before he leaves office, dismissing as “an accepted notion in liberal circles” that has “no foundation“:
“Going to war with Iran” has become an accepted notion in liberal circles and every kernel of news gets fanned by people who believe — with no foundation in my opinion — that it’s only a matter of time before Bush pulls the proverbial trigger.
Americans hardly need to “fan” “every kernel of news” to come to the conclusion that Bush might be gearing up for an attack — or at least encouraging its ally, Israel, to attack in its stead. After all, neocon allies of the Bush administration — not liberals — strive constantly to make it clear that an attack is still very much a possibility:
John Bolton: The Isrealies attacking Iran “during President Bush’s term makes a lot of sense.”
Bill Kristol: When asked if “there’s any chance” Bush will attack Iran, Kristol replied, “I don’t think it’s out of the question.”
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT): “I wish that this administration would specifically and clearly warn the Iranians that…unless they stop it, we’re going to take action. … They ought to believe that we’re going to hit those training camps.”
Daniel Pipes: Pipes said that the U.S. should tell Tehran to “watch out” for “an American attack,” adding, “Should the Democratic nominee win in November, President Bush will do something.”
Liz Cheney: “The time for diplomacy here is rapidly coming to an end.“
New reports indicate that the U.S. has already begun cross-border operations into Iran. Is it really so crazy for Americans to worry that Bush could launch a pre-emptive strike against a country that had not attacked us?
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July 3rd, 2008 at 4:34 pm.
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July 3rd, 2008 at 4:35 pmHCON 362 IH
110th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. CON. RES. 362
Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the threat posed to international peace, stability in the Middle East, and the vital national security interests of the United States by Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and regional hegemony, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 22, 2008
Mr. ACKERMAN (for himself and Mr. PENCE) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the threat posed to international peace, stability in the Middle East, and the vital national security interests of the United States by Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and regional hegemony, and for other purposes.
Whereas Iran is a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), has foresworn the acquisition of nuclear weapons by ratification of the NPT, and is legally bound to declare and place all its nuclear activity under constant monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA);
Whereas for nearly 20 years, in clear contravention of its explicit obligations under the NPT, Iran operated a covert nuclear program until it was revealed by an Iranian opposition group in 2002;
Whereas the IAEA has confirmed such illicit covert nuclear activities as the importation of uranium hexafluoride, construction of a uranium enrichment facility, experimentation with plutonium, importation of centrifuge technology, construction of centrifuges, and importation of designs to convert highly enriched uranium gas into metal and shape it into the core of a nuclear weapon;
Whereas Iran continues to expand the number of centrifuges at its enrichment facility, as made evident by its announced intention to begin installation of 6,000 advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium, in defiance of binding United Nations Security Council resolutions demanding Iran suspend enrichment activities;
Whereas the November 2007 National Intelligence Estimate reported that Iran was secretly working on the design and manufacture of a nuclear warhead until at least 2003, but that Iran could have enough highly enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon as soon as late 2009;
Whereas an Iranian nuclear weapons capability would pose a grave threat to international peace and security by fundamentally altering and destabilizing the strategic balance in the Middle East, and severely undermining the global nonproliferation regime;
Whereas Iran’s overt sponsorship of several terrorist groups, including Hamas and Hezbollah, and its close ties to Syria raise the possibility that Iran would share its nuclear materials and technology with others;
Whereas Iran continues to develop ballistic missile technology and is pursuing the capability to field intercontinental ballistic missiles, a delivery system suited almost exclusively to nuclear weapons payloads;
Whereas Iranian leaders have repeatedly called for the destruction of Israel, a major non-North Atlantic Treaty Organization ally, and a member of the United Nations;
Whereas the United States, Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany have offered, and continue to offer, to negotiate a significant package of economic, diplomatic, and security incentives if Iran complies with the United Nations Security Council’s resolutions demanding that Iran suspend uranium enrichment;
Whereas Iran has consistently refused such offers;
Whereas as a result of Iran’s failure to comply with the mandates of the United Nations Security Council, taken under Chapter VII of the United Nations’ Charter, the international community has imposed limited sanctions over the past 2 years that have begun to have an impact on the Iranian economy;
Whereas Iran’s rapid development of its nuclear capabilities is outpacing the slow ratcheting up of economic and diplomatic sanctions;
Whereas Iran has used its banking system, including the Central Bank of Iran, to support its proliferation efforts and its assistance to terrorist groups, leading the Department of Treasury to designate 4 large Iranian banks proliferators and supporters of terrorism;
Whereas Iran’s support for Hezbollah has enabled that group to wage war against the Government and people of Lebanon, leading to its political domination of that country;
Whereas Iran’s support for Hamas has enabled it to illegally seize control of Gaza from the Palestinian Authority, and to continuously bombard Israeli civilians with rockets and mortars;
Whereas Iran continues to provide training, weapons, and financial assistance to Shi’a militants inside of Iraq and antigovernment warlords in Afghanistan;
Whereas those Shi’a militant groups and Afghan warlords use Iranian training, weapons, and financing to attack American and allied forces trying to support the legitimate Governments of Iraq and Afghanistan;
Whereas Iran is further destabilizing the Middle East by underwriting a massive rearmament campaign by Syria;
Whereas through these efforts, Iran seeks to establish regional hegemony, threatens longstanding friends and allies of the United States in the Middle East, and endangers vital American national security interests; and
Whereas nothing in this resolution shall be construed as an authorization of the use of force against Iran: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That Congress–
(1) declares that preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability, through all appropriate economic, political, and diplomatic means, is vital to the national security interests of the United States and must be dealt with urgently;
(2) urges the President, in the strongest of terms, to immediately use his existing authority to impose sanctions on–
(A) the Central Bank of Iran and any other Iranian bank engaged in proliferation activities or the support of terrorist groups;
(B) international banks which continue to conduct financial transactions with proscribed Iranian banks;
(C) energy companies that have invested $20,000,000 or more in the Iranian petroleum or natural gas sector in any given year since the enactment of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996; and
(D) all companies which continue to do business with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps;
(3) demands that the President initiate an international effort to immediately and dramatically increase the economic, political, and diplomatic pressure on Iran to verifiably suspend its nuclear enrichment activities by, inter alia, prohibiting the export to Iran of all refined petroleum products; imposing stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains, and cargo entering or departing Iran; and prohibiting the international movement of all Iranian officials not involved in negotiating the suspension of Iran’s nuclear program; and
(4) urges the President to lead a sustained, serious, and forceful effort at regional diplomacy to support the legitimate governments in the region against Iranian efforts to destabilize them, to reassure our friends and allies that the United States supports them in their resistance to Iranian efforts at hegemony, and to make clear to the Government of Iran that the United States will protect America’s vital national security interests in the Middle East.
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:36 pmDo we see another reporter who has been told to suck it up for Bush. Isn’t there a big shuffle going on over at WaPo?
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:36 pmSponsors of above resolution:
Rep. Gary Ackerman [D, NY-5]
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:38 pmand 146 Co-Sponsors
Rep. Rodney Alexander [R, LA-5]
Rep. Thomas Allen [D, ME-1]
Rep. Joe Baca [D, CA-43]
Rep. Roscoe Bartlett [R, MD-6]
Rep. Shelley Berkley [D, NV-1]
Rep. Brian Bilbray [R, CA-50]
Rep. Gus Bilirakis [R, FL-9]
Rep. Marsha Blackburn [R, TN-7]
Rep. Jo Bonner [R, AL-1]
Rep. Dan Boren [D, OK-2]
Rep. Robert Brady [D, PA-1]
Rep. Paul Broun [R, GA-10]
Rep. Corrine Brown [D, FL-3]
Rep. Virginia Brown-Waite [R, FL-5]
Rep. Michael Burgess [R, TX-26]
Rep. Dan Burton [R, IN-5]
Rep. David Camp [R, MI-4]
Rep. John Campbell [R, CA-48]
Rep. Christopher Cannon [R, UT-3]
Rep. Eric Cantor [R, VA-7]
Rep. Christopher Carney [D, PA-10]
Rep. Donald Cazayoux [D, LA-6]
Rep. Steven Chabot [R, OH-1]
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver [D, MO-5]
Rep. Howard Coble [R, NC-6]
Rep. Steve Cohen [D, TN-9]
Rep. K. Michael Conaway [R, TX-11]
Rep. Jim Costa [D, CA-20]
Rep. Joseph Crowley [D, NY-7]
Rep. Henry Cuellar [D, TX-28]
Rep. John Culberson [R, TX-7]
Rep. Danny Davis [D, IL-7]
Rep. David Davis [R, TN-1]
Rep. Norman Dicks [D, WA-6]
Rep. David Dreier [R, CA-26]
Rep. Eliot Engel [D, NY-17]
Rep. Michael Ferguson [R, NJ-7]
Rep. Jeffrey Fortenberry [R, NE-1]
Rep. Luis Fortuno [R, PR-0]
Rep. Virginia Foxx [R, NC-5]
Rep. Barney Frank [D, MA-4]
Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen [R, NJ-11]
Rep. Jim Gerlach [R, PA-6]
Rep. Louis Gohmert [R, TX-1]
Rep. Charles Gonzalez [D, TX-20]
Rep. Virgil Goode [R, VA-5]
Rep. Barton Gordon [D, TN-6]
Rep. Kay Granger [R, TX-12]
Rep. Samuel Graves [R, MO-6]
Rep. Al Green [D, TX-9]
Rep. Raymond Green [D, TX-29]
Rep. Phil Hare [D, IL-17]
Rep. Jane Harman [D, CA-36]
Rep. Alcee Hastings [D, FL-23]
Rep. Robin Hayes [R, NC-8]
Rep. Jeb Hensarling [R, TX-5]
Rep. Peter Hoekstra [R, MI-2]
Rep. Tim Holden [D, PA-17]
Rep. Steny Hoyer [D, MD-5]
Rep. Samuel Johnson [R, TX-3]
Rep. Stephanie Jones [D, OH-11]
Rep. Steve Kagen [D, WI-8]
Rep. Patrick Kennedy [D, RI-1]
Rep. Mark Kirk [R, IL-10]
Rep. Ron Klein [D, FL-22]
Rep. Joseph Knollenberg [R, MI-9]
Rep. John Kuhl [R, NY-29]
Rep. Doug Lamborn [R, CO-5]
Rep. Nicholas Lampson [D, TX-22]
Rep. James Langevin [D, RI-2]
Rep. Steven LaTourette [R, OH-14]
Rep. Daniel Lipinski [D, IL-3]
Rep. Frank LoBiondo [R, NJ-2]
Rep. Nita Lowey [D, NY-18]
Rep. Frank Lucas [R, OK-3]
Rep. Carolyn Maloney [D, NY-14]
Rep. Donald Manzullo [R, IL-16]
Rep. Kenny Marchant [R, TX-24]
Rep. James Marshall [D, GA-8]
Rep. Jim Matheson [D, UT-2]
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy [D, NY-4]
Rep. Michael McCaul [R, TX-10]
Rep. Thaddeus McCotter [R, MI-11]
Rep. John McHugh [R, NY-23]
Rep. Michael McNulty [D, NY-21]
Rep. Kendrick Meek [D, FL-17]
Rep. Michael Michaud [D, ME-2]
Rep. R. Bradley Miller [D, NC-13]
Rep. Candice Miller [R, MI-10]
Rep. Gary Miller [R, CA-42]
Rep. Harry Mitchell [D, AZ-5]
Rep. Jerry Moran [R, KS-1]
Rep. Marilyn Musgrave [R, CO-4]
Rep. Edward Pastor [D, AZ-4]
Rep. Mike Pence [R, IN-6]
Rep. Todd Platts [R, PA-19]
Rep. Ted Poe [R, TX-2]
Rep. Jon Porter [R, NV-3]
Rep. Tom Price [R, GA-6]
Rep. George Radanovich [R, CA-19]
Rep. James Ramstad [R, MN-3]
Rep. Dave Reichert [R, WA-8]
Rep. Rick Renzi [R, AZ-1]
Rep. Thomas Reynolds [R, NY-26]
Rep. Ciro Rodriguez [D, TX-23]
Rep. Michael Rogers [R, AL-3]
Rep. Michael Rogers [R, MI-8]
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher [R, CA-46]
Rep. Peter Roskam [R, IL-6]
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen [R, FL-18]
Rep. Steven Rothman [D, NJ-9]
Rep. Edward Royce [R, CA-40]
Rep. Timothy Ryan [D, OH-17]
Rep. H. James Saxton [R, NJ-3]
Rep. Adam Schiff [D, CA-29]
Rep. Allyson Schwartz [D, PA-13]
Rep. David Scott [D, GA-13]
Rep. Peter Sessions [R, TX-32]
Rep. Joe Sestak [D, PA-7]
Rep. John Shadegg [R, AZ-3]
Rep. Christopher Shays [R, CT-4]
Rep. Brad Sherman [D, CA-27]
Rep. Heath Shuler [D, NC-11]
Rep. William Shuster [R, PA-9]
Rep. Albio Sires [D, NJ-13]
Rep. Adam Smith [D, WA-9]
Rep. Adrian Smith [R, NE-3]
Rep. Christopher Smith [R, NJ-4]
Rep. Clifford Stearns [R, FL-6]
Rep. John Sullivan [R, OK-1]
Rep. Betty Sutton [D, OH-13]
Rep. Thomas Tancredo [R, CO-6]
Rep. Lee Terry [R, NE-2]
Rep. Patrick Tiberi [R, OH-12]
Rep. Edolphus Towns [D, NY-10]
Rep. Mark Udall [D, CO-2]
Rep. Peter Visclosky [D, IN-1]
Rep. Timothy Walberg [R, MI-7]
Rep. Zach Wamp [R, TN-3]
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D, FL-20]
Rep. Henry Waxman [D, CA-30]
Rep. Lynn Westmoreland [R, GA-3]
Rep. Robert Wexler [D, FL-19]
Rep. Charles Wilson [D, OH-6]
Rep. Addison Wilson [R, SC-2]
Rep. Rob Wittman [R, VA-1]
Oh, so we should just not pay attention to the criminals in the White House, is that what you are saying, skank?
These WAR CRIMINALS are not to be trusted, you need to keep an eye on them every second, and if congress can’t and won’t do it, then we “the people” need to do the job for them.
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:39 pm$400,000,000 for covert ops to cross in Iran, but hey no provacation there by the U.S. bush’s buddy and campaign financier Hunt Oil just signed a no bid contract written by this administration for Kurdistan oil. Need bodies to protect Hunt’s oil.
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:39 pmNow there is a list of liberals I never thought I’d see Please all the jews coming over here from Israel touting that proposition
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:40 pmDana Priest I am surprised at you, thought you were one of the good guys.
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:40 pmIt has more to do with ‘already been lied to’ about the ‘imminent threat’ in Iraq. We’ve been given reason not to trust bush or his cohorts, and he’s already proven to have an ichy ‘trigger finger’. Bush cannot be trusted.
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:40 pmplease = plus
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:41 pmDenials like this fit right in to the program. Cheney and Bolton are running around trying to start a war, and shills like Dana Priest dismiss any suggestion that this is really happening. She will keep it up right until the bombs drop.
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:41 pmMs Priest, in the words of Shrub himself: “Fool me… can’t get fooled again.”
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:44 pmDoes this wench read the news or just make it up according to whoever is paying her for her trite opinion? The “liberals” who are talking about Bush’s intent to war on Iran in my neck of the conservative Montana woods are all disillusioned GWB voters from 2000 and 2004, who now no longer trust anything the man has to say. I guess the liberal press got to them too.
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:46 pmWill Dana Priest still be a serious journalist with a job after the Iran war starts? Probably. Being dead wrong on Iraq hasn’t hurt any careers.
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:48 pmPay no attention to that man behind the curtain!!! I am the GREAT AND POWERFUL WIZARD OF OZ!!!
I’m tired of these g@ddamned traitors.
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:48 pmHas Dana Priest been in the drunk tank these past three months?
Does she not read her own newspaper?
Does she not scan the wire service reports?
Does she not listen to the commentators on radio or teevee who spout the threats and warnings of and to Iran? Does she think those threats are just posturing or pretending?
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:50 pmThe media has learned nothing in the past eight years. Free press is just an illusion (or maybe it’s an allusion).
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:52 pmDana Priest broke the news of the deplorable conditions at Walter Reed, so why now is she defending what everyone else can see. cheney is just drooling to go into Iran.
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:52 pmSeymour Hersch I believe, Dana you disappoint me.
If there are no plans to attack Iran, then why did Prime Minister Maliki travel to Iran to assure their government that Iraq would not be a staging area for that very purpose?
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:53 pmIs it really so crazy for Americans to worry that Bush could launch a pre-emptive strike against a country that had not attacked us?
Based on a few somewhat ambiguous quotes from non-decision makers?.She’s right, no proof, even if possible.
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:58 pmIs it really so crazy for Americans to worry that Bush could launch a pre-emptive strike against a country that had not attacked us?
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Of course it’s crazy! What president would ever do something as foolish as that?
Oh wait…
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:58 pmkonchster Says:
please = plus
Boy, that REALLY helped.
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:58 pmObama’s leaving open the possibility for a change in his stance on Iraq:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25519279
I don’t consider it a flip-flop.
And, his upcoming trip may not change his plans to pull the troops out.
But, I respect his intention to address the situation with an open mind.
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:59 pmThey should start up the draft before the bombs start dropping, then we’ll see who really wants to go to war with Iran. I’m sure they’d have to open a recruiting station just for the trolls (that haven’t already signed up).
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:01 pmrozerze Says:
Is it really so crazy for Americans to worry that Bush could launch a pre-emptive strike against a country that had not attacked us?
Based on a few somewhat ambiguous quotes from non-decision makers?.She’s right, no proof, even if possible.
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So, why did Maliki feel it necessary to travel to Iran and assure them that America would not use Iraq as a staging area to attack Iran?
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:02 pmAgain, a $400 million covert ops exposed going into Iran for what, a social meeting ? Looks like proof to me. Of course there is the history of this administration to consider, provoking a country then invading.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:07 pmThe US military is drawing up plans for a “surgical strike” against an insurgent training camp inside Iran if Republican Guards continue with attempts to destabilise Iraq, western intelligence sources said last week. One source said the Americans were growing increasingly angry at the involvement of the Guards’ special-operations Quds force inside Iraq, training Shi’ite militias and smuggling weapons into the country.
Also, Buildup of forces at Camp Delta, 37 miles from the Iranian border.
But why on Earth would anyone think we were planning to attack Iran?
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:08 pmWe shouldn’t go around attacking countries that don’t
threaten us.
We really can’t wait until Iran launches one of their new missiles.
We have to know their capabilities and their intent. They keep on talking war and building nuclear facilities.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:08 pmIt is time for scum like Priest to be treated as the human filth that they are. Treat Priest like the whore that she is. Every one should go after her and have their way with her,
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:10 pmRick Y Says:
We shouldn’t go around attacking countries that don’t
threaten us.
We really can’t wait until Iran launches one of their new missiles.
We have to know their capabilities and their intent. They keep on talking war and building nuclear facilities.
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America has 16 different intelligence agencies that all say that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon. Either they are not building a nuclear weapon, or you believe the CIA, NSA, NRO, DIA, etc. to be a bunch of fools. Meanwhile Pakistan has nukes and hosts Al-Qaeda leadership.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:12 pmRicky “they keep on talking war and building nuclear facilities.” You were speaking of J.Bolton, B.Kirstol, cheney, and oh yes, the United States is pushing for more nuclear facilities as well. So, it is only alright for America to talk war and build but nobody else. Like we have such a good track record of peacekeeping in the last 8 years.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:12 pmJMOHR – you didn’t really just say what it looks like you said did you ? Come on this isn’t 6th grade on the playground.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:13 pmWell…. she sure looks smart.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:19 pmTanqueray,
So, you disagree with Dana Priest? You think there are plans to attack Iran?
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:20 pmI am so sick and tired of the right wing’s obsession with Iran.
First of all, even if they had nukes, they lack the ability to attack North America. They have no missiles that have that range.
But of course this obsession isn’t about Iran’s nuclear threat to America, rather, it’s about Israel.
Because if the right wing were really that damn scared of an American city getting nuked, they would be all over the former Soviet bloc and other parts of eastern Europe and Eurasia halting the flow of blackmarket nuclear materials.
Just saying.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:21 pmDana Priest is a fantastic reporter. But she needs to get with it on this issue. This administration already tried to go to war with Iran when the British sailors were captured 18 months or so ago. Tony Blair declined Bush’s offer for military assistance.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:22 pmRick Y Says:
We really can’t wait until Iran launches one of their new missiles.
We have to know their capabilities and their intent. They keep on talking war and building nuclear facilities.
Why do we have to know these things? Our government won’t even tell your doctor that they have stolen records from the doctor’s office, but we are supposed to know what another soverign nation’s capabilities are? We get spied on and can’t be told we are being spied on? Why is that? Because we are the big, bad, do-gooders of the world? All of our intentions are true and righteous? Hardly….
Also, nobody in Iran is talking about war. It’s your good buddy W and his hand picked chickenhawks who are sabre rattleing all over the ME. They – and it seems you – want a war nobody else is interested in.
Got Draft?
Your devotion to the criminal enterprise is digusting and wrong.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:22 pmSo, I guess the right wing is now saying that there is no threat from Iran? Because if there were a threat, then there would be the possibility of a pre-emptive attack on Iran to prevent that threat. Now they are saying there are no plans to attack, so there must be no threat.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:23 pmSomebody needs to clue that stupid bint Dana (Jebus – another stupid DANA P.!!) that Der Fuhrer Bush insisted that we weren’t going to strike Iraq, either…
But I guess she must think that was accidental or something. Oopsie, we just bombed Iraq – my bad! Sorry, Iraqis, we were just cleaning our bombs and we accidentally dropped a sh*tload of ‘em on you…ooops.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:23 pmJournalists like Dana Priest, it has long been known, Judith Miller, William Kristol (although, he’s not really a journalist)and Chris Wallace, etc… are placed in their corporate news bunkers in order to broadcast intelligence in the form of propaganda for the dictators in the Pentagon.
They’re the ones who control the media.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/062908.html
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB177/index.htm
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:24 pmThe EU has accused the bank of helping to finance Iran’s efforts to produce enriched uranium,
Iran is allowed to enrich unranium – as are we, Germany, Britain, Israel, Japan, Korea, etc…
Who exactly, put us in charge of this planet?
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:26 pmAs much as I hate to point out that the red meat TP tossed out is really rubber chicken, the rest of the quote in the Q&A doesn’t make Priest out as mocking liberals. She acknowledges the sabre rattling and holds out the likelihood of a split between factions within the administration along with the possibility that this is part of a carrot and stick approach. I don’t interpret her as denying that The Dick et al want more blood, just that she doesn’t think Bush will pull the trigger. Her basis appears to be Adm. Mullens’ recent comments. I can question Priest’s judgment in assuming rational conduct from an irrational president but don’t see anything particularly complementary to the administration in her answer.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:27 pmtexaslady Says:
JMOHR – you didn’t really just say what it looks like you said did you ? Come on this isn’t 6th grade on the playground.
No, this use to be a democracy. There use to be the rule of law. Truth used to mean something. It no longer does. It is time to shake the foundations of this ruling cabal with what they deserve. You show me where Congressional subpoenas are being obeyed. You show me where appropriate action has been taken on the politicization of the Department of Justice. You show me where the war crimes committed by this administration are being subjected to appropriate accountability. You show me where the violations of the fourth amendment perpetrated by this administration have been brought to terms. So, you are merely another wimp who will roll over to the Republicans. Screw you.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:32 pmLike I wrote before, I vehemently disagree with Dana Priest on this issue.
But people here need to realize that she’s not “placed in their corporate news bunkers in order to broadcast intelligence in the form of propaganda for the dictators in the Pentagon.”
I’m fairly certain the Pentagon didn’t ask her to point out that the Bush Administration had “black sites” in former gulags where prisoners were being abused. She’s a very good investigative journalist.
She’s just — inexplicably — clueless about this particular topic.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:38 pmIf she promises to quit her nice, safe, secure sinecure when the US or Israel attacks Iran, then I’ll take her seriously. If not, STFU!
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:40 pmincessant caterwauling by the MOONBATS. . .
Even for late in the afternoon before a holiday weekend this consitututes a pretty lame effort to conflate responsible action to deal with a potentially dangerous situation with the wacky and counterproductive threats of a crew of neocons whose own military leaders say they don’t have the forces to occupy a third country. Nice try but we are still awake.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:47 pmIs it really so crazy for Americans to worry that Bush could launch a pre-emptive strike against a country that had not attacked us?
It’s not like it has ever happened before…oh wait…
http://progressivworldreview.com
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:47 pmTanqueray Says:
But the incessant caterwauling by the MOONBATS that it is just Bush/Cheney is belied by the actions of the UN and the EU. Apparently there are other people in the world who don’t trust an Islamic state with nukes either. Imagine that.
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You mean countries like Pakistan and Saudi? They are both Islamic states with nukes. According to the CIA, however, Iran is not pursuing nuclear weaponry.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:51 pmJMOHR. What your suggesting has been tried before. Spend some time considering the weathermen underground. Protesting the violence of the vietnam war with their own brand of competing violence, didn’t even make sense to them in the end.
texaslady. Thank you for trying to bring this to a higher level.
JMOHR – you’re just wrong. If I was as far off the mark as you on this, I’d offer the lady an apology.
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:02 pmDana, don’t forget to bring my coffee and the donuts with sprinkles.
-John McCain
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:04 pmbathtub gin Says:
Who exactly, put us in charge of this planet?
The same guy who put the UN and the EU in charge maybe?
The fact that the UN is a voluntary organization of 192 member states specifically formed to be “in charge of the planet” just flew right past you, didn’t it? Because an organization of 192 sovereign countries is exactly the same as one country.
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:08 pmThe ‘mistaken’ (not bloodly likely) transport of six nuclear warheads from Minot to Barksdale attached to a B-52 was not mentioned either.
As a side note, after spending three years on a SAC base I can tell you ‘mistakes’ like that just don’t happen – no matter how screwed up you may think the military is. When did Barksdale become the decommissioning base? Barksdale also happens to be the staging base for the Middle East. Mistake? BULLSHIT! That was no mistake.
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:15 pmDana Priest is right. Although it is poor style for her to demean liberals — who have been largely correct about the Iraq War.
There will be no attack by the U.S. upon Iran, and probably no attack by Israel upon the Islamic Republic.
The entire story as it has played out in the media is a Strategic PSYOP.
As one who is not unfamiliar with the professional skills of a “speaker monkey”, I can attest that there are all the elements of a sophisticated Information Operation in play.
We are putting the heat on Iran to yield on the nuclear issue, and on any “unhelpfulness” in Iraq. That’s the way it is.
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:20 pmlet’s see…yesterday was the fifth anniversary of “bring em on”, and we have nothing to worry about? what planet is she living on? everyone in both houses needs to spend a month in the flood zones of the midwest. try dealing with the bugs, the stink, the mess – worse than katrina. the bubble they all live in needs to burst and burst NOW.
my god this country is toast. toast i tell you.
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:24 pmOMG– I thought this story was about DANA PERINO. Maybe the other Dana has not read Seymour Hersh’s new article.
Psst to Dana. In case you can’t google Hersh’s article: He says Bush-Cheney will attack IraN or support an Israeli attack.
Get with it.
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:32 pmDana Priest is just one more FASCIST SCUMBAG on the heap of REPUGNISCUM GARBAGE!!!!
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:56 pmGinny~
One can be concerned about Iran developing a nuclear weapon and against attacking Iran at the same time… they are not mutually exclusive.
Intelligence tells us that Iran is not currently working on a nuclear weapon.
Experience tells us that the best way to prevent them developing one is to engage them in negotiations.
Cheney/Bolton/Kristol et al. tell us we must attack before it’s too late… Why do you support Cheney/Bolton/Kristol et al. when they’ve been proven disastrously wrong time and again?
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:03 pmWatch what Sy Hersh said last month.
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:25 pmShe would be really cute in a burka and handcuffs…
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:37 pmHMMM,
“Dana Priest ridiculed the idea that Bush might attack Iran before he leaves office, dismissing as “an accepted notion in liberal circles” that has “no foundation“.
What’s that old saying? Individuals who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it? Something like that.
Where was Dana when the George Dubya Admin. was calling for war against Iraq? She must have been on vacation.
Where was Dana when the American public found out that all the excuses the George W. Admin. used to go to war with Iraq was just that? Excuses. Let me clarify the use of the word excuses.
They were lies, no, they were damn lies told to the American people by the George W. Admin. to take us into a war with Iraq!
So, if Dana wants to align herself with the Neocons and the conservatives all I’ve got to say is may God forgive her.
Troubled Texan
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:45 pm#59 LiberalVoter,
“As a side note, after spending three years on a SAC base I can tell you ‘mistakes’ like that just don’t happen – no matter how screwed up you may think the military is. When did Barksdale become the decommissioning base? Barksdale also happens to be the staging base for the Middle East. Mistake? BULLSHIT! That was no mistake.”
LiberalVoter I concur.
I’ve worked as a Munitions Systems Specialist for 21 years. At no time during those years did anything like this, lost nukes, happen.
This was a special (secret) project.
Where were those nukes supposed to end up at?
Troubled Texan
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:59 pmConsidering that during Nam we never conducted operations over the border into Cambodia, I don’t see why anyone would believe that we’re doing this in Iran.
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:54 pmTroubled Texan, With your experience (was that at Kirtland?)and never having seen this happen the way it was floated is even more disconcerting. It sure smells like Cheney. That he has the power to do this (he does, by the way) bypassing normal channels scares the hell out of me.
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:55 pmTanqueray Says:
At least those sophisticated and enlightened Europeans aren’t falling for this B.S. They would never do anything to provoke the Iranians
Europeans, like Israelis, Arabs, Asians and Americans have their Right Wing Fascistic/Corporatist elements within their own governments. There is no such thing as a 100% Socialistic or 100% Fascistic government.
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:29 pmI don’t much care for Bush/Cheney either but does that blind you to the fact that other countries and organizations in the world are concerned about Iran working on a nuke?
An effective debating technique, if one don’t realize it’s being employed against them.
But you’re just another soured conservative, who is desperate to show that Bush/Cheney doesn’t represent your ideology, when in fact all conservatives (just like you) endorsed them for years, with nary a peep of disapproval.
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:07 pmYou people are all fools. Pawns in the game.
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:59 pmPass the Borboun.
Has anyone given thought to what nuking Iran would do to the entire region?
Kucinich has.
Check it out.
It’s chilling!
July 4th, 2008 at 12:08 amThat would be Bourbon…
July 4th, 2008 at 12:16 amStill, you people are fools.
Better a fool than a tool.
July 4th, 2008 at 12:19 amStop fantasizing Joanne….
July 4th, 2008 at 12:28 amonoclea,
July 4th, 2008 at 1:02 amI bet Dana thinks Congress is too, TOO LIBERAL… NO?
texaslady,
July 4th, 2008 at 1:03 amDana collects a paycheck… she HAS a price, too!
#41 StratRat Says:
Nobody but the USA put the USA in charge of the planet.
When America has been THE ONLY NATION to EVER demonstrate the capacity and propensity to actually USE nuclear(ized) weapons on civilian populations… America has gone and scared the whole world sh!tless !!! That’s how.
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July 4th, 2008 at 1:13 amMs. Priest, will you resign your job if you’re wrong?
July 4th, 2008 at 3:32 amThere is a very simple method for removing the Seyyeds in Iran. Non violence and General Strikes must be encouraged by all in the world, in their support for the people of Iran. The Seyyeds know that their hands are tied, if the people of Iran did not “bake bread” for them.
What a lot of you folks do not realise, is that the Iranian people celebrate Nowrooz more than anything else. Apathy towards Islam is so strong that the Mullah dare not walk alone.
But what we need most are articles that show how people can non violently approach such a violent dogma. The Iranian Spirit as in The Zend Avesta and later in the Shahnameh has the hearts and minds of Iranians, who love life and celebrate it every year, especially so in defiance of the Seyyeds.
Please leave it to us to clean our house ourselves, and not use Iran as a tool to show anti Americanism or anti Israelism. Help Iranians help themselves with peaceful means.
http://www.avesta.org/ka/ka_part1.htm#ashem
July 4th, 2008 at 8:03 amTanqueray Says
July 4th, 2008 at 8:47 am
This woman is right, Bush would never invade another country unjustly. He would never invade another country for, say, OIL!
July 4th, 2008 at 9:50 amNope , never. Not Bush. No sirree.
If it wasn’t for all the discussion on this topic, it would have already happened.
Lets get real….US invades Irqa for it’s oil, plane and simple….they didn’t want there oil…they wanted to stop Saddam from selling the oil below market prices therefore keeping down the price of oil. Now that we know the context of the invasion…Do you really think the US is going to allow Iran to move in and take control of the oil feilds????? NO , BIG FAT NO!!!
So is war with Iran possible…yes….will it happen…Yes…..at what cost?????
Isn’t it funny how you don’t hear from the other Middle Eastern countries????? They all want an attack on Iran.
Down side…we are going hurt for 4 to 6 months.
Upside … The fall of Iran will help decrease the terrorist violence in the region…ie Hammas , Hesbulla and The end of the REPUBLICAN party as we know it.
I am definatley against the war and the only thing we can do is prepare for the worst….$10 gallon gas. OUCHHHH.
Oh , one important fact….the BILDERBERG GROUP wants Iran taken out. Google Bilderberg group and you will see why.
July 4th, 2008 at 10:49 amDana Priest is a Washington insider that traffics on confidential sources. That conflict clouds her objectivity. When her sources are disgruntled insiders she get a good story. The rest of the time she is used by those insiders to put out the message they want played. It amazes me that after all of these years people list Priest haven’t caught on to being played like a fiddle by the politicans. This journalistic corruption is one of the key factors in our decline as a nation.
July 4th, 2008 at 12:46 pmhttp://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/03/priest-mocks-iran-attack/#comment-5069186
July 4th, 2008 at 1:11 pmooppss, sorry about that. Please delete my comments, both this one and the one above. Thank You.
July 4th, 2008 at 1:12 pm