Cheney Warns of Iran As a Nuclear Threat

Cheney Warns of Iran As a Nuclear Threat (washingtonpost.com)

As noted here earlier, and as uncovered and reported recently by Seymour Hersh, and consistent with the policy aims of the Project for a New American Century, our eyes turn now to a second member of the "axis of evil," Iran.

In his New Yorker article, Seymour Hersh tells us that this administration will not make the same mistakes as they did in Iraq, mistakes having nothing to do with the conception, planning, and execution of the invasion and occupation, but in the "selling" of war to the public:

"The President and his national-security advisers have consolidated control over the military and intelligence communities’ strategic analyses and covert operations to a degree unmatched since the rise of the post-Second World War national-security state. Bush has an aggressive and ambitious agenda for using that control—against the mullahs in Iran and against targets in the ongoing war on terrorism—during his second term. The C.I.A. will continue to be downgraded, and the agency will increasingly serve, as one government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon put it, as “facilitators” of policy emanating from President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney. This process is well under way."