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KEN SILVERSTEIN?Speaking From Experience, Part II: Former CIA official expects war with Iran |
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Contributed by Ken Silverstein
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Until recently, I thought the odds that the United States would attack Iran were less than fifty-fifty, but the chances of a military confrontation are clearly growing (as my colleague Scott Horton has been reporting on for some time). Earlier this year, I asked a former CIA official, who was stationed in the Persian Gulf during the first Gulf War and served in Iraq after the 2003 invasion, if he though the administration was planning a military strike. ?I don?t think the administration is about to carry out military action,? he told me. ?The military does not want to do this. We will lose planes if there is a massive air strike over Iran. We?ll have pilots killed and captured.? . . .
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