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Bush's Messianic Mission To Make War On Iran

Comment by Larry Ross, September 21, 2006

According to Seymour Hersh, Bush has a messianic mission - making war on Iran. The pretext, as we learned from Bush's war on Iraq,
is that his neocon administration creates it's own pretexts for war, by stringing together a fabric of lies, and demonizing the leader of the target nation.
 
Even if Iran had or was planning to make nuclear weapons, that does not give Bush & Co the right to wage pre-emptive war against it. Does the U.S. make war on Israel, because Israel has an arsenal of 200-500 nuclear weapons?. It does not, nor does it make war or threaten sanctions against any of the other nuclear weapon states -Russia, China, Britain, France, Pakistan, North Korea, India. So why would Bush risk starting a major war in the Middle East - even a nuclear war -  that could escalate and end the world?.

The point is, as Seymour Hersh says, is that a person who claims God talks to him, and who believes he is guided by God, and believes he has a mission to make war including the possible use of nuclear weapons, is not what anyone would call sane. If anything - embarking on a course of action that could easily end the world - he would qualify as insane.

Bush does not wish to talk to Iran, even though Iran is very keen to talk to them and try to settle differences without war. Bush wants to regime change, in order to install another pro-U.S. dictator like the Shah of Iran, who the U.S. installed after they overthrew the democratically elected Mossadah.

This interview with Hersh gives many new insights, in addition to his original article in the New Yorker: Bush appears to prepare to nuke Iran
See also Bush War Machine Becomes More Vicious

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Hersh: U.S. mulls nuclear option for Iran

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, in an article in the April 17 edition of The New Yorker magazine, writes that President Bush wants regime change in Iran.

Citing a former senior intelligence official, Hersh says the administration views Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a "potential Adolf Hitler."

Among the options U.S. military officials have been asked to examine is the use of nuclear weapons against underground facilities for Iran's controversial nuclear program.

Hersh talked with CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Sunday about the article.

BLITZER: Here's, among other things, what you write in the article: "A government consultant with close ties to the civilian leadership in the Pentagon said that Bush was "absolutely convinced that Iran is going to get the bomb" if it is not stopped. He said that the president believes that he must do "what no Democrat or Republican, if elected in the future, would have the courage to do," and that "saving Iran is going to be his legacy."

So what's your bottom line? Do you believe, based on the reporting you did for this article, that the president of the United States is now aggressively plotting military action, a pre-emptive strike against Iran?

HERSH: The word I hear is "messianic." He thinks, as I wrote, that he's the only one now who will have the courage to do it. He's politically free. I don't think he's overwhelmingly concerned about the '06 elections, congressional elections. I think he really thinks he has a chance, and this is going to be his mission.

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