Tricking Iran into World War IV

Published on Wednesday, October 31, 2007.

  
By Kurt Nimmo

If we can say anything about the neocons, it is that they are
creatures of habit. Thus, in a playbook repeat of the invasion of Iraq, they
are now stringing us along with a rerun against Iran as they daily dole
out little instances of theater designed to wear the public down to the
inevitability of an attack, long in the cards. “Before his press
conference today, President Bush met exclusively with agroup of GOP
congressional leaders,” reports Think Progress. “According to Fox News, which
spoke with some of the members at that discussion, Bush unequivocally
promised that he would attack Iran if Iran ‘were ever to attack Israel.’
Bush told the lawmakers, ‘I know I would respond. … In order for
diplomacy to be effective, all options have to be on the table.’” Naturally,
Bush did not come up with this promise all on his lonesome—he was
coached by the usual neocon suspects.

And who, precisely, did the coaching? “The Bush administration
continues to publicly insist that it is pursuing a ‘path of cooperation’ with
Iran. But behind closed doors, in meetings such as the one today, the
White House seems to be charting a different course. David Wurmser, who
until recently served as Vice President Cheney’s Middle East adviser,
told a ’small group of people’ that Cheney is pushing for an Israeli
attack on Iran:

 
 "[T]he magazine quoted David Wurmser, until last month Cheney’s
Middle East advisor, as having told a small group of people that “Cheney
had been mulling the idea of pushing for limited Israeli missile strikes
against the Iranian nuclear site at Natanz—and perhaps other sites—in
order to provoke Tehran into lashing out.”
According to the report,
 “The Iranian reaction would then give
Washington a pretext to launch strikes against military and nuclear targets
in Iran.”
Wurmser co-authored the neocon attack plan and Rosetta stone, A Clean
Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, mandatory reading for
all who are keen to understand what the neocons have in mind for Muslim
grandmothers and toddlers, a process euphemistically described as
“rolling back” regimes but practically translated into nothing short of mass
murder and engineered misery for millions of people.

According to the Telegraph, one 
“of the most controversial figures in
American foreign policy over the past decade, David Wurmser has been
accused of spying for Israel, plotting a war with Iran and peddling lies
to engineer what he still refers to as ‘the American liberation of
Iraq,’”
 rather the ongoing and apparently endless torture—neocons call
this “democracy”—of more than twenty million Iraqis and the calculated
murder of over a million.

Wurmser declares there is nothing “neo” about him, as he is
self-described as a “medieval sort of guy,” an appropriate description as
Wurmser and his fellows are straight out of the Crusades and possessed with
anti-Islamic zeal of the sort only a Pope Urban II calling for blood and
gore at the Council of Clermont would appreciate.

In addition to Wurmser, Bush has had sit-downs with Norman Podhoretz,
the grand daddy of the neocon movement. “Bush and Karl Rove also
recently met privately with Norman Podhoretz for 45 minutes, listening to
his case for war with Iran. Earlier this month, Podhoretz told CSPAN, ‘I
believe President Bush is going to order airstrikes [on Iran] before he
leaves office.’”

As Podhoretz views it, if Bush does not bomb the dickens out of Iran
he will be guilty of a “dereliction of duty” and will thus be judged by
history, although conversely and more likely if he does attack Iran he
will be considered one of history’s more outlaw and virulent leaders
on par with Hitler, especially considering the ultimate objective of the
neocon agenda is to kick off World War IV, a fact readily admitted by
more honest neocons such as former CIA head honcho James Woolsey.

All of this out front warmongering—incessantly broadcast by the
corporate media, particularity Fox News—over many months has a debilitating
affect on the public, now resigned to yet another neocon series of war
crimes in their name. “Americans increasingly view a strike on Iran
during Bush’s term as inevitable. A new Zogby poll finds that 53 percent
of the public believe it is “likely that the U.S. will be involved in a
military strike against Iran before the next presidential election,”
concludes Think Progress.

It is a one trick pony the neocons have used quite effectively to
their benefit. Recall months of unmitigated and unrelenting propaganda in
the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq—propaganda since revealed to be
nothing but a passel of lies and flimsy fabrication. If an oft-employed
trick works, no matter how threadbare and absurd, there is certainly no
reason it will not be cynically used again, especially by the likes of
psychopathic criminals.

For now, the American people may indeed conclude the coming attack on
Iran is inevitable. As well, many of them may find $6 a gallon
gasoline and a full-blown depression inevitable, although of course they will
find the latter far less palatable.