Scott Horton

I have a solid dozen sources, including Michael Gordon's own colleague, Alyssa Rubin at the New York Times and many others.

where they found these bomb factories in Shiite Iraq.

They were being made by Shiite Arab Iraqis.

And when David Petraeus was going to have a big press conference and they laid out all the components, all the reporters gathered around and they started noticing that the components said made in UAE, made in Haditha, that is Iraq.

In other words, there was no evidence whatsoever that these came from Iran.

And then they called off the press conference and Stephen Hadley, George Bush's second national security advisor, admitted that, yeah, we didn't have the evidence that we needed to present that.

And I also quote to one Marine and one high level army intelligence officer in there who were deeply involved in Iraq war, reconfirming that that there was never any evidence that these bombs were coming across from Iran.

Or especially that then even if they were, that that was at the direction of the Quds Force or the Ayatollah.

This was all just a propaganda campaign because Dick Cheney and David Petraeus were trying to give George Bush a reason to hit IRGC bases and start the war in 2007.

And this sounds crazy, but there's like four major confirming sources for it.

Dick Cheney's national security advisor, David Wormser, who was the author of the Clean Break Strategy, which we're going to talk about today.

David Wormser in 2007 was saying, we want to work with the Israelis to start the war with Iran to force George Bush, to do an end run around George Bush and force him into the war.

And that was reported originally by Stephen Clemens in the Washington Note, but it was later confirmed in the New York Times and by the Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman in his book, Angler.

on Dick Cheney, that there was this huge, this was the end that they were going for, was they were trying so hard to force a war in 2007.

And it was the commander of CENTCOM, Admiral Fallon, who said over my dead body, we are not doing this.

And then a few months later, the National Intelligence Council put out their NIE saying that there is no nuclear weapons program at all.

And W. Bush complained in his memoir, Lex,

that in his story, it's the Saudi king, His Royal Highness Abdullah, rather than Ehud Olmert.

But he's saying, I'm sorry, Your Highness, Your Majesty, I can't attack Iran's nuclear program because my own intelligence agency says they don't have a military program.

So how am I supposed to start a war with them when my own intelligence agencies say that?