Iranian soldiers killed in Lebanon

[Rat Faced]

The US government was closely involved in planning the Israeli campaign in Lebanon, even before Hizbullah seized two Israeli soldiers in a cross border raids in July. American and Israeli officials met in the spring, discussing plans on how to tackle Hizbullah, according to a report published yesterday.
The veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh writes in the current issue of the New Yorker magazine that Israeli government officials travelled to the US in May to share plans for attacking Hizbullah.

Quoting a US government consultant, Hersh said: "Earlier this summer ... several Israeli officials visited Washington, separately, 'to get a green light for the bombing operation and to find out how much the United States would bear'."

The Israeli action, current and former government officials told Hersh, chimed with the Bush administration's desire to reduce the threat of possible Hizbullah retaliation against Israel should the US launch a military strike against Iran.

"A successful Israeli Air Force bombing campaign ... could ease Israel's security concerns and also serve as a prelude to a potential American pre-emptive attack to destroy Iran's nuclear installations," sources told Hersh.

Yesterday Mr Hersh told CNN: "July was a pretext for a major offensive that had been in the works for a long time. Israel's attack was going to be a model for the attack they really want to do. They really want to go after Iran."

An unnamed Pentagon consultant told Hersh: "It was our intention to have Hizbullah diminished and now we have someone else doing it."

Officials from the state department and the Pentagon denied the report. A spokesman for the National Security Council told Hersh that "The Israeli government gave no official in Washington any reason to believe that Israel was planning to attack."

Hersh has a track record in breaking major stories. He was the first to write about the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and has written extensively about the build-up to the war in Iraq. He made his name when he uncovered the massacre at My Lai during the Vietnam war. Most recently he has written about US plans for Iran, alleging that US special forces had already been active inside the country.

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[j2k4]

The US government was closely involved in planning the Israeli campaign in Lebanon, even before Hizbullah seized two Israeli soldiers in a cross border raids in July. American and Israeli officials met in the spring, discussing plans on how to tackle Hizbullah, according to a report published yesterday.
The veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh writes in the current issue of the New Yorker magazine that Israeli government officials travelled to the US in May to share plans for attacking Hizbullah.

Quoting a US government consultant, Hersh said: "Earlier this summer ... several Israeli officials visited Washington, separately, 'to get a green light for the bombing operation and to find out how much the United States would bear'."

The Israeli action, current and former government officials told Hersh, chimed with the Bush administration's desire to reduce the threat of possible Hizbullah retaliation against Israel should the US launch a military strike against Iran.

"A successful Israeli Air Force bombing campaign ... could ease Israel's security concerns and also serve as a prelude to a potential American pre-emptive attack to destroy Iran's nuclear installations," sources told Hersh.

Yesterday Mr Hersh told CNN: "July was a pretext for a major offensive that had been in the works for a long time. Israel's attack was going to be a model for the attack they really want to do. They really want to go after Iran."

An unnamed Pentagon consultant told Hersh: "It was our intention to have Hizbullah diminished and now we have someone else doing it."

Officials from the state department and the Pentagon denied the report. A spokesman for the National Security Council told Hersh that "The Israeli government gave no official in Washington any reason to believe that Israel was planning to attack."

Hersh has a track record in breaking major stories. He was the first to write about the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and has written extensively about the build-up to the war in Iraq. He made his name when he uncovered the massacre at My Lai during the Vietnam war. Most recently he has written about US plans for Iran, alleging that US special forces had already been active inside the country.

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I think the key word here would be 'hood-winked'.

Seymour Hersh, the greatest living journalist; indeed, the Dan Rather of print.

Egad.

Would that he focused his dazzling talents on the United Nations, eh?

EDIT:

I forgot to accord this the requisite ridicule due all cut-and-paste posting.

I hereby heckle the poster, and offer several soft, wet raspberries (Yankee Stadium specie) as well.

[Ava Estelle]

I forgot to accord this the requisite ridicule due all cut-and-paste posting.

Including your own?

[j2k4]

I forgot to accord this the requisite ridicule due all cut-and-paste posting.

Including your own?

In the interest of fairness?

Yes.

Funny, no one had a problem with it until I did it, and no one seems to have a problem with it unless I do it.

[limesqueezer]

All a big hunt for oil: the biggest oil reserves are where the wars are, all growing on bush like it was with hitler. Dogs are more respected than other people. U kick a dog and u pay 1000 dollars and u rape & kill some not christian human and u are a patriot, but i doubt that bush belives in anything, he just knows what people wana hear.

[j2k4]

...u rape & kill some not christian human and u are a patriot...

I have never heard anyone refer to U.N. personnel as patriots.

[limesqueezer]

America supplies weapons for one and putin for other side, its all just a testing ground or to say it more clearly a nice way to let others fight and than they can later walk in as helping ppl and steal the oil which was the plan at start and of course to put in charge a president later on that sticks with USA. Like in Korea its all about stealing oil and not some nuclear bombs. Nuclear power has nothing to do with building bomb. USA trys to find many different ways to start a war everywhere where is oil cause they want to control it. Who has the most atomic bombs and makes wars all the time since the time i was born, USA is the answer. Those people in iraq live in stone age, just watch a documentary and not some stupid news chanel that says what bush wants em to say, they can't build atomic bombs, they couldn't even defend emself when usa attacked. Who trained Osama, CIA did and i wouldn't go too far saying that bush planed to attack world trade center cause this was the only way to attack iraq and steal the oil. Nowdays are the terrorists only the people that have no money and lots of oil, only the countries that have the biggest oil reserves and are poor enough that USA can attack. It was like that always from world war 2 to vietnam to now.