Former Bush White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, quoted in the New York Times about why the Bush administration waited until September of 2002 to launch an intensive media campaign to "prep" the public for the likelihood of a U.S.-led invasion of Iraq."From a marketing point of view, you don't roll out a new product in August."
What will "Iran" look like when it's rolled out before the national elections in 2008? It's being downsized from midsize to compact, with a new emphasis on "affordability", to conform with the Administration's limited reserves of national and international political capital. Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and author Seymour M. Hersh reports in the October issue of New Yorker magazine, under the title "Shifting Targets: The Administration's plan for Iran ..."Read the complete article online:This summer, the White House, pushed by the office of Vice-President Dick Cheney, requested that the Joint Chiefs of Staff redraw long-standing plans for a possible attack on Iran, according to former officials and government consultants. The focus of the plans had been a broad bombing attack, with targets including Iran’s known and suspected nuclear facilities and other military and infrastructure sites. Now the emphasis is on “surgical” strikes on Revolutionary Guard Corps facilities in Tehran and elsewhere, which, the Administration claims, have been the source of attacks on Americans in Iraq. What had been presented primarily as a [nuclear decapitation] ... mission has been reconceived as "counterterrorism" ...
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...8fa_fact_hersh
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