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And, yes, I DO take it personally: The mid-term elections are being used to fog preparations to attack Iran
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Thursday, October 26, 2006

The mid-term elections are being used to fog preparations to attack Iran

yes, the mid-term elections are important... god only knows, they're HUGELY important, but, as with so many other issues over the past six years, the bush administration is using american media's preoccupation with the events of the moment to obscure their relentless assault on every other front we hold dear... case in point, from daniel ellsberg, writing in harpers...
A hidden crisis is under way. Many government insiders are aware of serious plans for war with Iran, but Congress and the public remain largely in the dark. The current situation is very like that of 1964, the year preceding our overt, open-ended escalation of the Vietnam War, and 2002, the year leading up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

In both cases, if one or more conscientious insiders had closed the information gap with unauthorized disclosures to the public, a disastrous war might have been averted entirely.

i posted on this just the other day, quoting from william polk, writing on the website of george mason university's history news network...

(thanks to repository...)

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