US Preparing For War Against Iran?

I’m sure that Rosenberg, Hagee and Co. are tickled that the saber rattling is increasing in intensity, considering how hard they have been working to make it become a reality. Interestingly enough, this would indicate to me that the US then becomes Gog/Magog, according to the Left Behind brand of eschatology.

Via: USNews.com

A 6,000-word article for the New Yorker by Seymour Hersh suggests the US is closer to armed conflict with Iran than previously believed. According to Hersh, “late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran,” according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. US Special Operations Forces “have been conducting cross-border operations from southern Iraq, with presidential authorization, since last year. These have included seizing members of Al Quds, the commando arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and taking them to Iraq for interrogation, and the pursuit of ‘high-value targets’ in the President’s war on terror, who may be captured or killed.” However, according to Hersh, “The scale and the scope of the operations in Iran, which involve the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), have now been significantly expanded.”

The Washington Post says this morning the New Yorker article “drew a sharp reaction from administration officials, who denied that US forces were engaged in operations inside Iran.” Spokesmen for the intelligence committees, the Post notes, “declined to comment,” as did the CIA, citing its policy of not commenting “on allegations regarding covert operations.” Asked on CNN’s Late Edition if there is any truth to Hersh’s allegation that US Special Operation forces are operating within Iran, US Ambassador in Iraq Ryan Crocker answered: “I can tell you flatly that US forces are not operating across the Iraqi border into Iran, in the south or anywhere else. … US forces are not operating across the Iran-Iraq border, no.”

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