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Speaking at the Campus Progress journalism conference earlier this month, Seymour Hersh — a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist 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, he reports that this meeting occurred in the wake of the overblown incident in the Strait of Hormuz, when a U.S. carrier almost shot at a few small Iranian speedboats. The “meeting took place in the Vice-President’s office. ‘The subject was how to create a casus belli between Tehran and Washington,’” according to one of Hersh’s sources. More

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Posted by markw, filed under Politics/Religion. Date: August 5, 2008, 6:54 pm |

2 Responses

  1. Iraq War Says:
    August 5th, 2008 at 7:24 pm

    I love to doubt as well as know.DanteAlighieriDante Alighieri, 1265-1321

  2. 9/11 Says:
    August 6th, 2008 at 4:49 pm

    Adam did not want the apple for the apple’s sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.MarkTwainMark Twain

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