http://www.juancole.com/2012/08/plot-to-provoke-war-with-iran-thwar...

Todd blows the whistle on Cosgriff, letting State know about his intended insubordination. Word gets back to Neocons or whoever was behind the provocation and Cosgriff that Todd was the leak. She is abruptly deprived of her base pass and security clearance, a trumped up case is made against her with the FBI that she received money from a former boyfriend who did illegal consulting with Sudan (she says she returned the small sum he sent her). Todd’s career is ruined, her inquiries and grievances are ignored, she marries an Austrlian naval officer and goes into exile in Perth. FBI harasses her even there. ...

What happened to her was typical of Neoconservative ways of operating. Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Richard Perle, Scooter Libby, and other Israel partisans inside the Pentagon or in Cheney’s office repeatedly played dirty tricks, held meetings and did not invite principals, contolled meeting agendas, and spied on and tried to discredit foeign service officers at the State Department, according to FSOs who have privately talked to me. The Neocons did these things in order to get up the Iraq War, which they thought would protect Israel. According to Wesley Clark, they hoped for a series of wars. In 2007 Cheney was clearly pushing for a war on Iran. Many of the Neoconservatives had left government by 2007, but the network remained powerful, especially in Cheney’s office.

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread888522/pg1#sthash.HXTnrkj...

“In 2007, an American armada, troop ships, aircraft carriers, guided missile cruisers and destroyers sailed into the Persian Gulf. Their plan was to land Marines on Iranian soil, a plan hatched by Vice President Dick Cheney and White House officials including Karl Rove, Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Clarke. Military command of this invasion, to be done without consultation of congress or the United Nations was left to Vice Admiral Kevin J. Cosgriff and Admiral Will J. Fallon, both career opportunists with extremist political views, willing to do anything for promotion and the curry favor from the powerful criminal figures in US government. Their “cover story” was to sale a frigate up the Shatt al Arab, a disputed waterway between Iraq and Iran, hoping to stimulate a “response” from Iran. Their real plan was to create the response themselves, as was done by the Navy during the Tonkin Gulf Incident in 1964 when America “invented” an attack by North Vietnam as a prelude to a 10 year war America eventually lost. Their plans were to create phony radio traffic simulating an Iranian attack in order to push America into authorizing hostilities that they, themselves, had perpetrated in as part of a conspiracy. The official version of story is in a 5 page article in Washington Post.

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What is important here is not just the quality of the story that is told, but the more important story that could never be told. There was a second part of the plan. Admiral Cosgriff informed Todd, on December 13, 2007, while Todd was his chief advisor, that Iran planned on attacking Bahrain and had total control of Shiites in the region. This is how the Washington Post reports her response to the Admiral: "The report, which she guessed originated with the local CIA station, said the attacks were to be led by Bahrain's top Shiite religious figure, Isa Qassim.Todd thought the report was fishy. Although Bahrain's Shiites did oppose the U.S.-backed Sunni monarchy, they're Arabs, eternal enemies of the Persian Iranians. And Qassim himself, it happened, had warned Todd just the previous day that anti-monarchy demonstrators might attack places frequented by U.S. personnel.The report "looked like a fabrication by someone trying to kill two birds with one stone, by making the Bahraini Shia appear to be anti-U.S. terrorists who also happened to be taking orders from Iran," Todd said. "I knew, really knew, that the Bahraini Shia were trying to ensure U.S. personnel were nowhere near the possible violence." She suspected the intelligence report was cooked up by Bush administration hawks."Todd was sent to meet with intelligence sources who said the report was bogus. Private sources told a different story. They indicated that Bahrainian secret police, aided by special operations units answerable to the Joint Special Operations Command under Vice President Cheney, planned to stage an attack on US facilities.

They would be timed to attacks on US naval personnel, terror bombings, staged by Americans but blamed on Isa Qassim, a popular religious figure who was known to oppose the local monarchy. Through him, false claims of naval attacks would flood in to Washington and Marines would land in Iran. Hundreds of Americans would be murdered by fellow Americans to serve "political necessity and the greater good," as the slogan so often used by the "neocons" goes, especially when criminal acts are involved. None of this came to pass. The night Admiral Cosgriff sent Todd out to meet a CIA informant in Dirza, Todd's clearances were stripped, she was cut off from all contact and abandoned, abandoned and hunted by death squads of Bahrainian secret police who had been tailing her. She was going to be murdered in Bahrain to silence her, as so many have been since. In the interim, however, Todd contacted ranking supporters within the Navy and US government, reporting this attempt at terrorism and an unauthorized invasion and, with the help of her soon to be husband, an Australian naval official, managed to escape unharmed and hunted."

Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqC0Lzp-5lo

There are several facts to be extracted here:

• It is not U.S. interest (by military evaluation) to start a war with Iran, but the PTB has their own agenda, and they are using U.S. Military for that agenda
• The [Zionists] wanted a war with Iran (possible as a WWIII stepstone ... with nukes & biological WMD)
• Navy Admirals are not Zionists as a rule. When needed they are replaced with Zionists
• To start a war their normal procedure will be a false flag incidence to manipulate public opinion

This is not "MIC" / "Corporate Fascism" / "The Moneyjunkies"-agenda. They would maintain U.S. dominance in the world, not destroying both U.S. and the world for no [official] reason. What we are facing is a different cynicism.