June 13, 2008

WAR CRIMES DOSSIER: Pentagon blocked Cheney's attack on Iran

Pentagon blocked Cheney's attack on Iran
By Gareth Porter

WASHINGTON - Pentagon officials firmly opposed a proposal by Vice President Dick Cheney last summer for airstrikes against the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) bases by insisting that the administration would have to make clear decisions about how far the United States would go in escalating the conflict with Iran, according to a former George W Bush administration official.

J Scott Carpenter, who was then deputy assistant secretary of state in the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, recalled in an interview that senior Defense Department (DoD) officials and the Joint Chiefs used the escalation issue as the main argument against the Cheney proposal.
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From the Asian Times - more here (good read in one sense, not in another .. )

It's not LEGAL to provoke another nation .. plus it's a Constitutional VIOLATION.

Under Geneva no one can saber rattle.

Under the Constitution, no one can declare WAR without Congressional approval. (and OBVIOUSLY some wimpy, selfish souls in the Armed Forces committee knew all about it.)



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