If any false-flag pretext happens before Cheney is out of office, I hope we’ve learned a lesson and can quickly look to Cheney for the source of said false flag op.

Your hopes are good, but I’m afraid they will find no fruit. Both sides of government are anxious to show who is the bigger friend of Israel and even bigger enemy of Iran. If a false-flag event occurs under the current climate in D.C. we will have the support of the vast majority of elected politicians for military action against Iran.

Again, it’s the fear factor Connor has written of that leads to this. A fearful congress, or a fearful people, will be an obedient people or an obedient congress. The use of fear against US citizens by the government is well documented in Chomsky’s “Manufacturing Consent” and, “Necessary Illusions” by the same author.

I think the fact that Bush et al don’t trust a Democratic administration to handle Iran will lead to Bush doing something military regardless of the political climate.

Regarding the Patriot Act, we have a long history of this sort of thing dating back to 1798 with the Sedition Act. The Sedition Act of 1918 that got Debbs imprisoned was equally heinous.

If you research the questions of who wrote the Patriot Act, and when it was written, you will find that no one will, or can tell you. Orrin Hatch avoided these two questions in writing to me twice.

Common beliefs among many are that the Patriot Act was written many years ago, and was waiting in the wings for just the right time. In other words, the 9/11 attacks were staged for many reasons, one of those reasons was to get the public behind legislation that had already been pre-written and desired by a government which wished more control over its citizens.

But the neo-con administration has been hampered in any instigation of the Iran War thus far, being far too hindered by public dissent against Iraq and a broken military. Hopefully the Iran War will not come to pass.

If any false-flag pretext happens before Cheney is out of office, I hope we’ve learned a lesson and can quickly look to Cheney for the source of said false flag op.

I look to a false-flag op in the vein of the staged Gulf of Tonkin incident. We already have ships and carriers stationed there, and if anything happens to those ships, it would be a simple thing for Cheney to claim Iran did it. With the complient media, we would not know the truth for many months.