US considers use of nuclear weapons against Iran
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The administration of President George W. Bush is planning a massive bombing campaign against Iran, including use of bunker-buster nuclear bombs to destroy a key Iranian suspected nuclear weapons facility, The New Yorker magazine has reported in its April 17 issue.
The article by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh said that Bush and others in the White House have come to view Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a potential Adolf Hitler.
"That's the name they're using," the report quoted a former senior intelligence official as saying.
A senior unnamed Pentagon adviser is quoted in the article as saying that "this White House believes that the only way to solve the problem is to change the power structure in Iran, and that means war."
The former intelligence officials depicts planning as "enormous," "hectic" and "operational," Hersh writes.
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Hersh is a great investigative reporter. He has amazing contacts, but by downplaying the level of insanity (relatively, think of the level I'm talking about), by pretending, unlike, say Chris Floyd, that the Neocons are just a pack of misguided, somewhat crazy leaders, he does stupid things like write: "Bush and others in the White House view him [Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] as a potential Adolf Hitler, a former senior intelligence official said."
I don't care if a senior official said it, it's bullshit. Iran stands in their way. It's next on the agenda of global domination via WWIII. End of story. But now every news report is leading with that quote, playing it straight even though it's not meant to be in the article, so that the reporter can go on to discuss the nuclear option as either saber rattling or a regretable last resort, both of which are then presented as reasonable when faced with stopping Hitler.