Speaking at the Campus Progress journalism conference [1] earlier this month, Seymour Hersh — a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist [2] for The New Yorker — revealed that Bush administration officials held a meeting recently in the Vice President’s office to discuss ways to provoke a war with Iran.

In Hersh’s most recent article [3], he reports that this meeting occurred in the wake of the overblown incident [4] in the Strait of Hormuz, when a U.S. carrier almost shot at [5] a few small Iranian speedboats. The “meeting took place in the Vice-President’s office. ‘The subject was how to create a casus belli [6] between Tehran and Washington,’â... >>>