Gordon Brown is backing U.S. plans for "surgical" bombing raids on Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, it has been claimed.
A leading American journalist said U.S. commanders had been drawing up plans to target Iran's nuclear facilities but were told this summer to focus instead on the guards, who have been blamed for attacks on U.S. and British forces in Iraq.
Seymour Hersh, known to have high-level contacts in the Pentagon, said: "During a secure videoconference that took place early this summer, the President told Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, he was thinking of hitting Iranian targets across the border and that the British 'were on board'."
I have heard some of the White House flacks calling into question Hersh's accuracy on his past reporting as a way to suggest that he not be taken seriously. I would remind you that they did the same thing when he first revealed what was happening at Abu Ghraib. They also attacked his character and his patriotism. But he was right wasn't he?
I would place my trust in Seymour Hersh over the Bush administration every time.
too disturbing.....
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