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... >>>
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[1] //www.campusprogress.org/common/2933/2008-journalism-conference
[2] //i4.democracynow.org/2008/6/30/hersh_congress_agreed_to_bush_request
[3] //www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_hersh
[4] //thinkprogress.org/2008/01/14/iran-speedboats-mullen/
[5] //thinkprogress.org/2008/01/07/pentagon-says-us-ships-harassed-by-iranians/
[6] //www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_hersh?currentPage=all