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The Cheney Doctrine
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DAVE LINDORFF
Counterpunch
August 5, 2008
Some people are expressing consternation and disbelief at a report by journalist Seymour Hersh that Vice President Dick Cheney had discussed the idea in his office of having some Navy Seals dress up as Iranians, and then put them in faked Iranian speedboats to make a fake attack on US ships in the Persian Gulf. The ensuing faked battle, with fake Iranians shooting at US ships and US ships firing back, he suggested, could be used to spark a war between the US and Iran.
I don’t know why people would find it hard to believe that this vice president would think up an idea like having Americans shoot at other Americans in the interest of his own warped view of national security.
After all, this is a guy who shoots his own friends.
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Besides, Cheney is in good company in this kind of thinking. We know from reports of the meeting filed by British intelligence that President Bush engaged in the same kind of thing when he was having trouble getting the country and the rest of the civilized world behind his and Cheney’s plan to attack Iraq. It was disclosed years later that in early 2003, Bush suggested to Prime Minister Tony Blair that the US could paint a U-2 spy plane in UN colors and fly it over sensitive parts of Iraqi airspace, so that Saddam Hussein would order it show down. That, he argued, would anger enough UN member states to win a security resolution to support a war on Iraq, and failing that, would give the US an excuse to go in on its own. Blair was reportedly horrified at this kind of kamikaze thinking—but not horrified enough to expose the president as a nutcase.
So that’s where we are today folks. A president and a vice president who both think that it’s a great idea to either send some of your own troops under false flags into harm’s way to get shot at so you can start a war, or, even worse, to dress up some of your soldiers as the enemy you want to go after, and have them open fire on your own guys so that you can claim you were attacked, and then go to war.
Who gets tricked by all these mad schemes?
Not the Iranians, or in the earlier instance, the Iraqis. They know they aren’t attacking American forces. No. It’s us, the American people, who are being tricked. Cheney knows that most Americans think the idea of attacking Iran—especially when we’re five years into an interminable war in Iraq and seven years into another war in Afghanistan, neither of which has an end in sight—is really, really stupid. So they’re trying to think up a way to trick us into supporting doing such a stupid thing. And the only thing they can come up with to overcome of reticence is making us think that our guys are being attacked.
Now let me say that I’ve been a skeptic about people who claim the 9-11 attacks were an “inside job”—that the US government actually organized those attacks. I know all the arguments and evidence, but it always seemed to me that it was over the top to think that our leaders would try to deliberately kill Americans in order to achieve some policy goal. And yet, here we have Dick Cheney, the real brains (such as they are) behind the Bush administration, discussing a plan, using American forces, to fake an attack on other American forces.
It makes me wonder whether maybe Cheney deliberately shot his friend Harry Whittington, either to flush those damned elusive quail he was after, or so that he could generate public sympathy for the embattled President Bush. And it even makes me wonder whether crazy Dick actually did have a hand in bringing down those Twin Towers. He may be too stupid to pull something like that off, but he has made it clear that it isn’t moral scruples that would prevent him from doing such a monstrous thing.
As ludicrous, pathetic and outrageous as this administration is, we need to take this latest Hersh report seriously. It seems clear that Cheney has a predilection for using fratricide to achieve his nefarious ends.
It’s one thing when he does it with his own rifle, though. It’s another when he does it with the world’s most mighty military machine.
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August 6th, 2008 at 8:20 am
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August 6th, 2008 at 11:24 am
This Cheney Dickhead love to start a war becos of greed, someone must tell him he should get his sons/daughters to join those young soldiers whom he is sending to the front!! Fcuking manipulative bastard!!
August 6th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Maybe that’s why Pelosi can’t impeach ‘em, they’ve made it known if they see the Personal-Perp-walk coming they blow up the world, light up a nuke terrorist attack, or discover a massive bird-flu prob and start rounding up certain folks,… Now expect gas prices to plummet or a McCain friendly ‘attack’ to help him win so they Will Not be investigated (on any thing, old or new) ’cause the only chance of some criminal charges are an Obama presidency.
August 6th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
lol Did you ever think that maybe we give these guys (Bush Admin) more credit than they deserve? What if everything that has happened during their administration has been a direct result of, not some elaborate scheme designed to run America into the ground, but their own, incredible, almost inhuman, capacity for stupidity? That Bush is just screwing up so badly, so dumbly, at every instance that the American People can’t believe someone this retarded got past the 3rd grade, much less got elected TWICE (maybe), so they are almost forced to think that Bush must have evil intentions… Food for thought when you consider the fact that every Presidential candidate for the last 30 years has mediocrity as their common denominator.
August 6th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
only cheney and his black ops bunker could make this up. their evil knows no end.
August 7th, 2008 at 7:57 am
@#3
If the Bush Admin was just stupid, wouldn’t Congress at least try to slow them down? The Congress has just bent over for everything that Bush wanted. Underestimating the Govt’s intelligence level and lack of morals is akin to putting on the blinders and just taking your undeserved punishment. Is it a coincedence that every candidate for AT LEAST the last 30 years has been mediocre? Even if you compromise from both our standpoints of stupidity vs. Bush’s(or bigger) plan to run us into the ground, the outcome is still unacceptable.
August 7th, 2008 at 7:59 am
Sorry, meant @#4!
August 7th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
@4 and 6,
The Bush admin AND Congress aren’t stupid… they are both scared s---less of their own masters. I don’t know what precisely they are so threatened by, but it’s increasingly obvious to me that are only taking orders.
Proof positive that world government is already de facto in place: ALL first-world nations (excepting possibly only Japan) are refusing to enforce their more-than-adequate immigration laws, even though 90% of their populations want much stricter enforcement of these laws. This cannot possibly be accidental. Something else seems to be calling the shots here.
August 7th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Why is anyone surprised at this?
docsteve Reply:
February 5th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Dick Cheney,
a has been a nevver should have been a rich man because he and his counter part raised fuel to get rich while in office then dropped at the end dick your time is done you were part of 911 the us was behind 911 and bushs daddy helped these are 2 people whom should have never been now we are faced with a damn mess to try and clean up one that my grandchildrens grand children will be paying for . bush the boy who cried wolf and there wasent one i am glad they are finished as this country was behind all the scare tactics and bulls---. where are the numbers on the planes why were the black boxes never found where is the plane that hit the pentagon no parts left hmmmm
August 8th, 2008 at 5:31 am
Original article must be joking. Of course the CIA or whatever “team” did 911. If you don’t know that by last year you are out cold. Watch “Loose Change vol 2″. Watch “Zeitgeist”. Sorry Christians… I was one as well. I am a vet also, but never fired a shot, and feel lucky. The “fellas” are playing “The Great Game”- oil control. That’s it, and everyone is expendable. And the kind of grinding poverty being manufactured here, now, will lead many broke, pissed youths into the military. We are what Kissinger and his crew called “useless eaters”. Totally expendable.
Afghanistan- pipeline.
Iraq-oil.
U.S.- Quality tv and entertainment for everyone.
Africa-”overpopulated” mine.
England- US brother.
Israel- foothold in oil-laden mid east.
Russia? Interesting.
Reform all banking or watch your property taxes kick your ass onto the street. I’ll meet you there, when Schwarzenegger is done “fixing” California’s budget. This s--- is not working/ is working perfectly to enslave the entire world. What vision. What sack. If now is not the time for revolution, there never will be one.
August 8th, 2008 at 9:44 am
*** NEWS FLASH ***
Massive US Naval Armada Heads for Iran
http://europebusines.blogspot......-iran.html
We are all screwed.
September 25th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Okay… WHO CARES IF PEOPLE WILL THINK YOU’RE CRAZY; THEY ALREADY DO, SO JUST WHEN WALKING DOWN THE STREET. JUST GIVE OUT URLS BY MOUTH & FLYER; Links to InfoWars.com & CriticalUnity.org
September 25th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Okay… WHO CARES IF PEOPLE WILL THINK YOU’RE CRAZY; THEY ALREADY DO, SO JUST WHEN WALKING DOWN THE STREET. JUST GIVE OUT URLS BY MOUTH & FLYER; Links to InfoWars.com & CriticalUnity.org !!!!!