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Brilliant Analysis of War Misses Key Factor

Comment by Larry Ross, December 23, 2006

David Corn's brilliant analysis of the Iraq war and Bush's reactions are scary as he says. Bush plans to sweep aside all expert advice and escalate the war with more troops (he invented a new term for escalating the war. He calls it a 'surge' tactic). He will also likely intensify US bombing of Iraq.

However Corn does not mention that Bush may also use a ‘False Flag' attack on the US and blame Iran, then use that as his justification to both escalate the Iraq war, use nuclear weapons on Iran, and introduce fascist-type legislation in the US. This possibility has been mentioned extensively in other writings on this site.

If Bush does this, and political commentators like David Corn reject the possibility that Bush arranged the 'False Flag' alleged attack by Iran they will be forced into the position of condemning Iran for its sudden treacherous terrorist attack on the US. Some of them will then become war justifiers and propagandists for US  retaliation. What little criticism there is in the US will further diminish as Americans close ranks behind their heroic President, now courageously wrecking revenge on Iran for its 'unprovoked attack'.

This terrible   scenario seems more possible and likely today as Bush's popularity drops, and public antagonism for his unjustified wars increase.

The 'False Flag' tactic could have been prevented, or its effect at least reduced, if only Americans had been forewarned that Bush might adopt such a tactic. They need to be educated that 'False Flag' operations have been used by the US in the past, as research on our site, or searching "False Flag Operations" on Google reveals.

It is a mystery why US Commentators like David Corn haven't anticipated that Bush may suddenly increase his popularity and gain public support for the war his regime and Israel have been planning for Iran .

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Bush, Asleep In The Bunker

by David Corn, December 20, 2006

Tom Paine " --- - This is scary. The president of the United States of America has created a hellish disaster that has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians and thousands of American soldiers, and he's resting well. The vice president believes that the man responsible for three of the greatest military blunders in U.S. history (attacking Iraq without devising a strategy for securing the country after the invasion; dissolving the Iraqi army, creating armed and trained recruits for the incipient insurgency; and mounting an extensive de-Baathification campaign that destroyed the governing infrastructure of the nation) did his job well.

Such comments suggest that the two people in charge of this country are not living in denial but detachment. They must realize that Iraq is a mess perhaps beyond remedy. But that doesn't seem to affect them. How can that be?

Bush and Cheney are in the bunker. The American public has rendered a judgment on the war and Bush and Cheney's management of it which is: not worth it, and you blew it. Washington's policy poohbahs—with the release of the Iraq Study Group report—pronounced the war practically lost. (Bush, showing more than he intended, said of the report, “To show you how important this [report] is, I read it.” Still, he rejected its key Hail-Mary proposals.) Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, the nation's number-one Johnny-come-lately, seconded the Iraq Study Group's conclusion that the United States is losing in Iraq. And all this occurred before the recent news that the Joint Chiefs of Staff have concluded that the White House cannot define the military mission in Iraq, that attacks against Iraqi and American troops are (once again) up, and that the Pentagon considers Shiite militants, not the Sunni insurgency, as the most grave threat in Iraq (meaning the Bush administration is supporting a government run by Shiites unable or unwilling to control Shiite death squads).

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