{"id":31614,"date":"2018-02-26T07:09:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T12:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31614"},"modified":"2018-02-26T07:09:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T12:09:15","slug":"growing-risk-of-u-s-iran-hostilities-based-on-false-pretexts-intel-vets-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31614","title":{"rendered":"Growing Risk of U.S.-Iran Hostilities Based on False Pretexts, Intel Vets Warn"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Growing Risk of U.S.-Iran Hostilities Based on False Pretexts, Intel Vets Warn<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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As President Donald Trump\u00a0prepares to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week, a\u00a0group of U.S. intelligence veterans\u00a0offers corrections to a number of false accusations that have been levelled against Iran.<\/p>\n

February 26, 2018<\/p>\n

MEMORANDUM FOR:<\/strong>\u00a0 The President<\/p>\n

FROM:<\/strong>\u00a0 Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)<\/p>\n

SUBJECT:<\/strong> \u00a0War With Iran<\/p>\n

INTRODUCTION<\/strong><\/p>\n

In our December 21st Memorandum to you, we cautioned that the claim that Iran is currently the world\u2019s top sponsor of terrorism is unsupported by hard evidence. Meanwhile, other false accusations against Iran have intensified. Thus, we feel obliged to alert you to the virtually inevitable consequences of war with Iran, just as we warned President George W. Bush six weeks before the U.S. attack on Iraq 15 years ago.<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after giving final remarks at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, May 23, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel\/Flash90)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In our first Memorandum in this genre\u00a0we told then-President Bush that we saw \u201cno compelling reason\u201d to attack Iraq, and warned \u201cthe unintended consequences are likely to be catastrophic.\u201d\u00a0The consequences will be far worse, should the U.S. become drawn into war with Iran.\u00a0We fear that you are not getting the straight story on this from your intelligence and national security officials.<\/p>\n

After choosing \u201cWar With Iran\u201d for the subject-line of this Memo, we were reminded that we had used it before, namely, for a Memorandum to President Obama on August 3, 2010\u00a0in similar circumstances. You may wish to ask your staff to give you that one to read and ponder.\u00a0It included a startling quote from then-Chairman of President Bush Jr.\u2019s Intelligence Advisory Board (and former national security adviser to Bush Sr.) Gen. Brent Scowcroft, who told the Financial Times<\/em> on October 14, 2004 that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had George W. Bush \u201cmesmerized;\u201d that \u201cSharon just has him wrapped around his little finger.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Growing Risk of U.S.-Iran Hostilities Based on False Pretexts, Intel Vets Warn As President Donald Trump\u00a0prepares to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week, a\u00a0group of U.S. intelligence veterans\u00a0offers corrections to a number of false accusations that have been levelled against Iran. February 26, 2018 MEMORANDUM FOR:\u00a0 The President FROM:\u00a0 Veteran Intelligence Professionals for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3910,6963,7844,18951,441,1049,827,18952,862],"class_list":["post-31614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-consortium-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-false-pretexts","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-united-states","tag-us-intelligence-veterans","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31615,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31614\/revisions\/31615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}