Seymour Hersch: Israel planned Hizbollah attack a month before soldier kidnappings

[CptStern]

A month into the war and one of the top investigative journalists in the United States has published dramatic allegations about the genesis of the conflict.

The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh has alleged that Israel had planned a military strategy to take on Hezbollah in Lebanon, and shared that strategy with the Bush administration well before the kidnappings last month that triggered the current war.

Seymour Hersh, who in the past exposed the Abu Ghraib scandal and Vietnam's My Lai massacre, also wrote that the United States gave the green light to the attack on Hezbollah because of its own plans for Iran.

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2006/s1714570.htm

 

[delusional]

ya i would expect so the war is supposed to be detterence to iran because iran will relate beirut to tehran
i'd also like to point out that wars are planned out even if they dont happen. I wouldnt be surprised if the U.S. has a plan to invade Iran with Israel

 

[mortiz]

Heh, this doesn't bode well for the Bush administration, given that Israel have completely failed in their aims so far. If they'd taken out Hezbollah it would have been embarrassing for Iran, conversely not taking them out is an embarrassment for the U.S. and Israel.

All this does one thing though, it takes focus away from Iraq which has been slowly getting worse.

 

[SAJ]

ya i would expect so the war is supposed to be detterence to iran because iran will relate beirut to tehran

Not quite, if you bothered to look you would know that the most credible analysis concludes that the USA's interest in the destruction of hezbollah (and therefore their reason for a green light to Israel) is the removal of armed militants with loyalty to Iran.
Thus, paving the way for an attack on the uppity "Islamicist" state.

i'd also like to point out that wars are planned out even if they dont happen.

But the suggestion that this attack was planned in advance makes a lie out of the notion that it was in response to the kidnapping - which always sounded like the script of "wag the dog" to me - and puts it into the realm of waiting for the right excuse.

I wouldnt be surprised if the U.S. has a plan to invade Iran with Israel

A plan ? Try a dozen or so scenarios, and you might be closer to the truth.

 

[CptStern]

Not quite, if you bothered to look you would know that the most credible analysis concludes that the USA's interest in the destruction of hezbollah (and therefore their reason for a green light to Israel) is the removal of armed militants with loyalty to Iran.
Thus, paving the way for an attack on the uppity "Islamicist" state.

But the suggestion that this attack was planned in advance makes a lie out of the notion that it was in response to the kidnapping - which always sounded like the script of "wag the dog" to me - and puts it into the realm of waiting for the right excuse.

qft, just like 9/11 was a pretext for the invasion of iraq


anyone know whatever happened to the "kidnapped" soldiers?

 

[delusional]

israel didnt completely fail in their aims, sure Israel didnt eradicate hizbollah but they still crippled its military capability on the border. ONE of the reasons for the war is make iran think twice before attacking israel. i do agree people have been distracted from Iraq which is on the brink of civil war

 

[SAJ]

israel didnt completely fail in their aims

Well, they did infact fail in their stated aims, namely to free the captured soldiers(still missing as far as I am aware) and to stop hezbollah's rockets(which only stopped in accordance with the ceasfire).
Had Israel stated that its aims were to wage a war of aggression to destroy the armed wing of a political party, the world's condemnation would have been deafening and unanimous from the very start (quite probably the reason for the subterfuge, if you wish to see it).

ONE of the reasons for the war is make iran think twice before attacking israel.

False, there is no suggestion that Iran could or would present an immediate threat to Israel, to suggest otherwise would be a complete fantasy.
As I pointed out before, one of the likely purposes of the attack/invasion , would be to weaken one of Iran's armed allies ( who could pose an immediate threat) to open the way for an attack on -rather than by- Iran.

 

[15357]

I'm not surprised. War is subject to advance planning.

 

[delusional]

http://www.cfr.org/publication/11215/steinberg.html
i had a source

 

[Kangy]

Oh come on... The US had a plan for invading Canada. I'm sure the UK has plans for invading France. Doesn't mean they actually mean to go through with them.