KBR has been planning the invasion of IRAN since 2003 [View All]

I worked in Iraq for nearly 11 months in 2005 and 2006. While I was there I talked to several mid-level KBR management types. I heard many interesting stories and took most of them with a grain of salt. But there was one that may or may not prove to be true sometime this month.

One day, while talking to my supervisor, who had been in Iraq working for KBR since just after the beginning of the war in 2003, we were talking about the situation with Iran. I said there was no way we would start a war with Iran due to the inability of our government to sufficiently fight the current war with Iraq. I said that the military was overstretched and there was no way we could man two fronts in two separate countries.

He disagreed and told me that the war with Iran was planned way back in 2003. I didn't believe him. He said that early in the Iraq war, KBR personell were allowed to go into areas that were now considered secret. He stated that he was in an upper level management office which had maps of the region on the wall. He noticed a map with the Iraq/Iran border on it and it had several arrows from Iraq into Iran and it also had highlighted areas within the border of Iran. He asked someone in the office what a map of Iran was doing up and what all the arrows and highlighted areas indicated. "Oh, that is our point of entry into Iran in January of 2007," was what he said the person told him. He further stated the highlighted areas where future American bases that were to be built by KBR.

Like I said earlier, I take everything I heard in Iraq with a critical mindset. Most of the people I worked with were exaggerators to put it diplomatically. But after hearing Bush's speech and his inclusion of Iran and Syria and his apparent threats against those countries, I wonder if those maps and plans were real.

If we do begin another military mission against Iran this month, it would seem that it has been planned since 2003. Any "provocation" at this point will be the tail wagging the dog to make sure the pre-planned war can be carried out.

I talked to a different KBR manager in 2005 who told me that the invasion of Iraq had been on the drawing board since 2000 and that he had seen plans and estimates for building American bases inside the country.

I guess we will know in a few more weeks.