Dave Lindorff: The Cheney Doctrine

Or, "Shoot your friends, first." Dave comments on recent disclosures to New Yorker magazine journalist Seymour Hersh that Cheney and others discussed using Navy Seals disguised as Iranians to broaden the Gulf War. [excerpt] "... Who gets tricked by all these mad schemes? Not the Iranians, or in the earlier instance, the Iraqis. They know they aren’t attacking American forces. No. It’s us, the American people, who are being tricked. Cheney knows that most Americans think the idea of attacking Iran—especially when we’re five years into an interminable war in Iraq and seven years into another war in Afghanistan, neither of which has an end in sight—is really, really stupid. ..." Read more of The Cheney Doctrine