Ex-CIA Chief: Military Action Against Iran Over Suspected Nuclear Program Seems More Likely

Source: Associated Press

A former CIA director says military action against Iran now seems more likely because no matter what the U.S. does diplomatically, Tehran keeps pushing ahead with its suspected nuclear program.

Michael Hayden, a CIA chief under President George W. Bush, says that during his tenure a strike was "way down the list" of options. But he tells CNN's "State of the Union" that such action now "seems inexorable."

He predicts Iran will build its program to the point where it's just below having an actual weapon. Hayden says that would be as destabilizing to the region as the real thing.

U.S. officials have said military action remains an option if sanctions fail to deter Iran.

Read more: http://www.newser.com/article/d9h66drg1/ex-cia-chief-military-action-against-iran-over-suspected-nuclear-program-seems-more-likely.html

kind of statements should come from Hillary Clinton and no one else.

When do people like this get held accountable?

Profile: Michael Hayden
Positions that Michael Hayden has held:

Just see how many times he lied and begged not to be prosecuted.


http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=michael_hayden


He's one nasty fascist and torturer

War crime charge(s):

Complicity in the commission of a war crime – torture, ill-treatment of detainees.
Condoned torture and extraordinary rendition.
Misled Congress.
Destroyed evidence (tapes showing interrogations).
Oversaw warrantless wiretap program.
Primary Association:
Member board of directors, National Interest Security Co. Also working there with him, since October 2008 is Jose Rodriguez, the former director of the CIA's National Clandestine Service who ordered the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes.

For further info, click here.
http://www.warcriminalswatch.org/index.php/the-culpable/36-the-culprits/74-michael-hayden

The US just signed a deal to help Israel develop the Arrow 3 missile defense against Iran. This was a payment to keep Israel happy and quiet while Iran gets the bomb. The US also just signed the first sale of the F-35 stealth jet squadron to Israel. All this is payment to shut up and be good little boys. Netanyahu will do anything the US says. He will never bomb Iran now. He just got paid off. And of course the idea that Obama would bomb Iran is balderdash. Case closed. End of story.

And I have no idea why he thinks it is more our business than, say, Syria's. Or Libya's. Or Turkey's. Or does he think Iran is also testing missiles that can make it to the US?

Politically, I am disinclined to give Ahmahdinejad anything that could unite his people under one banner as an aerial attack would do. He appears to be begging for us or Israel to help him out with his massive political problems by bombing something in Iran. We'd be fools to do it. Let him keep screaming that Israel and the US are coming to attack AND THEN WE DON'T ATTACK. Makes him weaker and weaker.

in the intelligence in positions of POWER you don't know the CIA or the NSA.

He still has his circle of influence installed and operating.

I find this news item troubling which is why I nominated it.

Just after invading Iraq, and we all know how swell that turned out.

who want their oil haven in Iraq protected & would love to get their hands on those Iranian oil fields - The military (to try and justify another budget increase in an already over bloated Pentagon war machine budget) - And Israel, who has nuclear weapons themselves but wants no other country in the region to possess them.

The self-interest of the aforementioned is certainly not worth nor good enough reasons to start a world war!

keep getting air time, be very afraid. He's doing the softening-up.

Juan Cole mentions a report in Huffpo that Republicans are green-lighting Israeli bomb strikes on Iran: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamal-abdi/resolution-green-lighting_b_657608.html

Cole notes that the move in question, signed by a third of the House Repubs, is reminiscent of the PNAC resolution sent to Clinton
in 1998, calling for attacks on Iraq, although that one didn't use Israel as a stalking-horse.

Cole also points out, "Nearly half of Republicans in the House are from the South, which has relatively few Jewish Americans. So this resolution is likely emanating from the Christian Zionists like John Hagee (who once said that God sent Hitler to punish the Jews for being outside Israel). It is not impossible that the people behind this resolution are fervently hoping for the Judgment Day to come more quickly and look forward to a Middle East apocalypse as a step toward the Return of Christ and the end of that pesky but temporarily necessary Judaism. In other words, for these right wing Americans to call for Israel to go to war on behalf of America is just one more case of white Christians sacrificing Jews for their own interests and is a form of anti-Semitism."

http://www.juancole.com/2010/07/repubs-plot-israel-iran-apocalypse-and-the-collapse-of-the-us-economy.html#comments

What a DUMBASS!

I'm sick of these masters of the universe puking up their wisdom. Let him join a commando group
or some other ground based operation.