“A Democratic senator told me that, late last year, in an off-the-record lunch meeting, Secretary of Defense Gates met with the Democratic caucus in the Senate. (Such meetings are held regularly.) Gates warned of the consequences if the Bush Administration staged a preëmptive strike on Iran, saying, as the senator recalled, “We’ll create generations of jihadists, and our grandchildren will be battling our enemies here in America.” Gates’s comments stunned the Democrats at the lunch, and another senator asked whether Gates was speaking for Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney. Gates’s answer, the senator told me, was “Let’s just say that I’m here speaking for myself.”
Seymour Hersh has a terrifying piece in the new issue of the New Yorker, one that details the Bush administration’s, aided and abetted by the spineless Democratic “leadership” in Congress, clandestine moves to attack/invade Iran before they leave office in Jan. 2009.
In related news, Iran has begun digging mass graves to house the corpses of thousands of dead enemy soldiers that they believe will accumulate in the conflict.
