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Comment on Russia Today: Iran is all a CIA plot by Kolya

Kolya — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:27:52 +0000

I agree with Sean. Despite his very self-assured style, Hersh’s track record during the last few years has not been impressive at all. He had too many consecutive strike outs. Perhaps he’ll hit another home run in the future, but he’s definitely in a slump.

Comment on Russia Today: Iran is all a CIA plot by poemless

poemless — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:56:59 +0000

Being wrong about something is hardly the same as being a crank.

Comment on Russia Today: Iran is all a CIA plot by Sean

Sean — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:52:13 +0000

Hersh has become a bit cranky. None of the his investigative exposes have come true. According to him, shouldn’t we have been at war with Iran sine 2006 or something? I sometimes wonder if his sources are playing him. I think I read someone suggesting this somewhere.

Comment on Russia Today: Iran is all a CIA plot by Candide

Candide — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:43:35 +0000

To my knowledge, Seymour Hersh is a crank.

Comment on Russia Today: Iran is all a CIA plot by Chris Von Doom

Chris Von Doom — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:39:11 +0000

Look at it this way — if John Kerry had won the 2004 elections, only the loony right would be calling it a “Soros coup.”

Comment on Russia Today: Iran is all a CIA plot by poemless

poemless — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:29:10 +0000

I tend to underestimate the power of groupthink, but I would really like to believe you are right. However, the two need not be mutually exclusive.

Comment on Russia Today: Iran is all a CIA plot by Chris Von Doom

Chris Von Doom — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:08:49 +0000

Contrary to myths about the magic powers of the CIA, you cannot motivate tens of thousands of people to act using covert operations.

Comment on Russia Today: Iran is all a CIA plot by poemless

poemless — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:39:51 +0000

Article written by Seymour Hersh (not a crank, to my knowledge) in 2008:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_hersh

Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are designed to destabilize the country’s religious leadership. The covert activities involve support of the minority Ahwazi Arab and Baluchi groups and other dissident organizations. They also include gathering intelligence about Iran’s suspected nuclear-weapons program.

It doesn’t prove involvement in the current situation. But does it make it more difficult to dismiss the notion outright?

Comment on Russia Today: Iran is all a CIA plot by jackUK

jackUK — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:01:19 +0000

There are some very good documentaries including a US one called Yugoslavia The Avoidable War.

Part 1
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5860186121153047571

Part 2
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6371060303901674397

Clinton-Approved Iranian Arms Transfers Help Turn Bosnia into Militant Islamic Base

http://www.senate.gov/~rpc/releases/1997/iran.htm

Comment on Russia Today: Iran is all a CIA plot by jackUK

jackUK — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:00:24 +0000

Definitely no foreign involvement or George Soros coloured revolution.

http://de-construct.net/e-zine/?p=6589

And it is not just that that there media power is disproportionate to there population they dominate and control the media and government appointees I could list the Bush and Obama administrations and media ownership in the US, as well as in Canada and in Europe and I dare you to refute what I am saying but I want this comment posted so if you ask me I will post in another comment.

Why does RT suck?

It was blatantly obvious that western mass media consistently lie about foreign affairs the latest Georgia conflict being the best example when CNN used footage of South Ossetia and claimed it was Gori.

The best example is the former Yugoslavia against the Serbs when we were arming and training Ustasha forces in Croatia including Operation Storm when a private US military contractor MPRI trained Croat and Muslim forces to assault to Serb enclave in Croatia ethnically cleansing 200,000 and killing 10,000 (I will also point out that MPRI instructors were training Georgian forces in sabotage techniques just before the conflict) and Islamic militants in Bosnia where Atta and KSM operated during the Bosnian war where financial records and some of the hijackers linking Bosnia to 9/11 were revealed .

KSM Granted Bosnian citizenship.

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/aki012009.htm