Bush Purging Air Force of Dissident Officers before Attacking Iran?
by Jeff Davis
It looks very much like George Bush and Dick Cheney are purging the armed forces of any dissident officers who might object to a last-minute surprise attack on Iran. The Army has been under the neocons’ thumb since the neocon puppet General David Petraeus took over last year. The Navy came under the chopping block when Admiral Fallon was relieved as Centcom commander some months ago, after voicing private opposition to Bush’s insane escalating confrontation with Iran. Now it’s the turn of the Air Force, the arm of the service which would bear the brunt of any assault against the Persians.
A recent news article reports that the top chiefs of the Air Force have resigned in an unprecedented move. No doubt some careerist Pentagon suck-ups approved by the necoons will replace them. The same article tried to blame the men currently resigning their top positions as being responsible for the “misplaced” nuke incident in which a B52 supposedly flew to the wrong base with six nuclear weapons last year. This is bull. The nuclear weapons were en route to the Persian Gulf in preparation for an attack on Iran, but somebody leaked word of their presence to the media and so the government had to make up this “it was all a mistake” fairytale.
It is entirely likely that whoever becomes President in November is going to have a red-hot shooting war land right in his lap the moment he walks into the Oval Office, along with $8.00 per gallon gas prices, food shortages, a worsening subprime mortgage crisis, massive homelessness due to foreclosures and completely uncontrolled open borders. More and more, I am starting to wonder who the hell would want to be the next President. (more…)