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Iran Next, By Way Of Charleston?

By Peter Hollings

08/24/05 "ICH" -- -- In the summer of 2002 . . . I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He told me something that

at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.

The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe

that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about

enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued.

''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as

you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're

history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''"Without a Doubt ," Ron Suskind, New York

Times Magazine, Oct. 17, 2004

Last January an article appeared in the New Yorker by noted investigative journalist Seymour Hirsch. In his article, "The

Coming Wars ," Hirsch quotes a intelligence official as saying:

"This is a war against terrorism, and Iraq is just one campaign. The Bush Administration is looking at this as a huge war

zone," the former high-level intelligence official told me. "Next, we're going to have the Iranian campaign. We've declared

war and the bad guys, wherever they are, are the enemy. This is the last hurrah-we've got four years, and want to come outof this saying we won the war on terrorism."

Hirsch continues:

The hawks in the Administration believe that it will soon become clear that the Europeans' negotiated approach cannot

succeed, and that at that time the Administration will act. "We're not dealing with a set of National Security Council option

papers here," the former high-level intelligence official told me. "They've already passed that wicket. It's not if we're going

to do anything against Iran. They're doing it."

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