This should scare the crap out of you....

[Postman]

Sy Hersch described a potential scenario that is very disturbing to say the least...

He feels they are ramping up the Spec Ops inside Iran with the goal of capturing some nuclear scientist and parade him around as proof with the claim that Iran has an active nuclear weapons program......

I immediately had a disturbing vision. I remembered what Sam Seder had said before about how torture is used to illicit false confessions. I then remembered how John McCain, during a 60 Minutes segment from the 1990's, had admitted to such - a false confession - under torture to which the Vietnamese gov't used as propaganda against their own people.

It's not beyond these criminals to kidnap an Iranian scientist, torture him to the point of confessing to a secret nuclear weapons program, parade him around as such as proof, and then use that false information as reason for attacking Iran.

What happened to America?

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/30/hersh_congress_agreed_to_bush_request

[Make7]

1. "There's an old saying in Tennessee...

...I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee... that says, fool me once, shame on—shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again."

[Mira]

4. You are cracking me up

[SammyWinstonJack]

10. Oh but we can get fooled again and probably will.

x( And anyway, fooled or not, Dickhead-n-bu$h will do what they want, regardless of the outcries/outcome.

[Hydra]

2. They could do that with some random Iranian

So your fear is well founded.

The real show is just starting, I think.

[Postman]

3. They've done it already with Iraq...

Remember Colin Powell's infamous speech to the UN - Feb 5, 2003?

He named a man named -al Libi- whom Powell claimed had "told" the US that Iraq was developing WMD.

What we learned subsequently was that Mr al Libi was water-boarded, tortured, to illicit a false confession to claim that Iraq had WMD, for which that scumbag Colin Powell used as "evidence" before the UN....

Don't believe these lying sacks of shit. If they tell you the sky is blue, you better believe the sky is anything BUT blue.

[Chulanowa]

6. ...A guy named Alibi?

Screw the screenwriter's guild, let's get these guys in htere making shitty sitcoms

[Postman]

8. Here you go my friend....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Shaykh_al-Libi

[Hydra]

7. Preaching to the Choir

I know that whatever Bush says, he means the opposite.

We are not at war = We're already killing people there

[TahitiNut]

11. I thought Al Libby was Scooter's brother.

:dunce:

[spanone]

5. yep

[robinlynne]

9. He didn't describe a potential scenario. he said we have already sent special forces

inside Iran! with congress' knowledge.

[struggle4progress]

12. Hell, they could grab some guy off the street in Australia and parade

him around as "Iran's nuclear mastermind" with the usual barrage of blarney from unnamed "experts," and our useless corporate media would follow suit dutifully

The only reason they might torture the guy, is cuz they thought that was great fun

[tbyg52]

13. They are setting up the system so they can "prove" anything they want.

Much like electronic voting.

[Lars39]

14. And let's not forget that outing Plame was part of setting up the system.

Destroying that network furthered their goals.