Reply #13: Seymour Hersh, Scott Ritter and others in the know have been

[Spazito]

trying to raise the alarm on this as they did before the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. Sadly, I think they will be ignored again.

The PNAC group are running out of time, the plan was to hit 7 countries in the Middle East over the bush term and, because Iraq wasn't the "cake-walk" they planned for, they have to expedite the plan to cover more than one of the other 7 countries.

Note the rhetoric about Syria has also increased lately.

Unless something major occurs, imo, the attacks, so-called limited, will occur and Congress gave the defacto go-ahead by passing the amendment they did.

Edited to add Wesley Clark's comments re the 7 countries:

CLARK: Well, not exactly a lie. But a theory about how to deal with terrorism. It was the “drain the swamp” theory that emerged after 9/11 and people talked about it. But before that, in 1991, I remember being in Secretary Wolfowitz’s office when he was the number three guy in the Pentagon.

And he said, yeah, the Gulf war, well, we didn’t get rid of Saddam, but what we did learn is we can use military power to clean up these old client states. We’ve got maybe five or ten years to clean them up, Syria, Iran, the rest of them, before the next superpower comes along.

I said, five or ten years? You mean, China and — the discussion sort of wandered off. But it was one of those nuggets you remember. And then I’m in the office with this senior general in the Pentagon, and he says, well, he says, sir, I just — this is after I’m retired. Sir, I just got this memo down from the office upstairs. He’s pointing upstairs. And they’re on the second floor, and the civilians are on the third floor.

And he says, seven countries. I said, is that classified? And he read the countries. I said, is that classified? Stop. He was going to show it to me. I said, don’t show that to me. I don’t want to see that. And so it wasn’t a plan. Maybe it was a think piece. Maybe it was a sort of notional concept, but what it was was the kind of indication of dialogue around this town in official circles, just like unofficial circles, that has poisoned the atmosphere and made it very difficult for this administration to achieve any success in the region.


http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/09/18/late-edition-wes-clark-talks-to-blitzer/#more-21506