Sy Hersh agrees

(Updated below)

US considers use of nuclear weapons against Iran - Yahoo! News

The administration of President George W. Bush is planning a massive bombing campaign against Iran, including use of bunker-buster nuclear bombs to destroy a key Iranian suspected nuclear weapons facility, The New Yorker magazine has reported in its April 17 issue.

The article by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh said that Bush and others in the White House have come to view Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a potential Adolf Hitler.

"That's the name they're using," the report quoted a former senior intelligence official as saying.

A senior unnamed Pentagon adviser is quoted in the article as saying that "this White House believes that the only way to solve the problem is to change the power structure in Iran, and that means war."
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One former defense official said the military planning was premised on a belief that "a sustained bombing campaign in Iran will humiliate the religious leadership and lead the public to rise up and overthrow the government," The New Yorker pointed out.
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One of the options under consideration involves the possible use of a bunker-buster tactical nuclear weapon, such as the B61-11, to insure the destruction of Iran's main centrifuge plant at Natanz, Hersh writes.

In recent weeks, the president has quietly initiated a series of talks on plans for Iran with a few key senators and members of the House of Representatives, including at least one Democrat, the report said.

But the former senior intelligence official said the attention given to the nuclear option has created serious misgivings inside the military, and some officers have talked about resigning after an attempt to remove the nuclear option from the evolving war plans in Iran failed, according to the report.

"There are very strong sentiments within the military against brandishing nuclear weapons against other countries," the magazine quotes the Pentagon adviser as saying.

The adviser warned that bombing Iran could provoke "a chain reaction" of attacks on American facilities and citizens throughout the world and might also reignite Hezbollah.

"If we go, the southern half of Iraq will light up like a candle," the adviser is quoted as telling The New Yorker.

OMFG.

I sat here in my sweatpants two weeks ago and prophesied Armageddon, wondering aloud if the assholes driving the bus are really that batshit insane. And now Seymour Hersh confirms that they really are.

Nota bene: When Sy says the insane clown posse includes "at least one Democrat," he means that it includes "at least one Joe Lieberman." His inclusion among the co-conspirators for the nuking of a Muslim country will do wonders for the Mideast peace process. Oh, hell. If we go nukular over there, I guess it really doesn't matter, does it? Immediate casualties in the hundreds of thousands or more, a regional shitstorm that will kill millions more.... and that's the rosy scenario.

Despite the good news -- the fact that the number of Americans who buy the nonsense Team Dubya is selling continues to shrink -- the bad news is that they think still they can get away with starting World War III. The worse news is that they're probably right.

Are people going to wake the fuck up in time?

Update: Ned Lamont, Joemental's primary opponent, drew the same conclusion I did from the passage quoted above. And here's the link to the original Hersh piece -- thanks, reader Randy.