Sy Hersh is Back Again

ThinkProgress has this:

Seymour Hersh, the New Yorker's Pulitzer-winning reporter, spoke recently at a journalism conference, and revealed that the Bush administration has been trying to drum up ways to justify an assault on Iran, and mentioned that a number of ideas were considered and rejected.

When pressed, he gave one such example, which was to build a few ships that look like Iranian PT boats, staff them with Navy seals dressed in Iranian military garb and a lot of weapons, and have them start shooting at U.S. ships.

The idea was rejected, because they decided they couldn't have Americans shooting at Americans (although whether this was because of any scruples or because they didn't think it could be kept secret, who knows), but it's instructive into the thinking that goes on in the White House.

They really aren't comfortable just following the rules and only going after the people who are ACTIVELY acting against us, they're trying to find a way to justify another unjustified war.

In the end, from watching the new, it looks like they've settled on trying to incite Isreal to attack, on the theory that once Iran attacks back, the American public will support our running to the rescue of our allies, the Israelis.

We'll see how it works out.