The idea that they (Iran) would attempt to go to a Mexican drug cartel to solicit murder-for-hire to kill the Saudi ambassador? Nobody could make that up, right?
Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.
The Iraq War was started based on these wild and crazy ideas:
1. Saddam aided and abetted Osama on 9/11
2. yellowcake
3. mushroom clouds
4. WMDs hidden in semis, driven round and round
All of the above debunked conspiracy theories were "made up" by somebody or a bunch of somebodies.
Remember Curveball?
'Curveball': I lied about WMD to hasten Iraq war
An Iraqi defector who went by the codename “Curveball” has publicly admitted for the first time that he made up stories about mobile bioweapons trucks and secret factories to try to bring down Saddam Hussein’s regime.
"I had a problem with the Saddam regime," Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, who fled Iraq in 1995, told The Guardian newspaper. "I wanted to get rid of him and now I had this chance."
Al-Janabi’s information was used in part by the U.S. as justification for the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. More than 100,000 people, most of them Iraqi civilians, have died in the war.
Oopsy daisy! Who could have known that an informant aptly assigned the code-name, "Curveball," would have thrown us a curveball?
Curveball said he lied to start a war with Iraq.
Couldn't this latest allegation be a yet another contrivance to bomb, bomb, bomb Iran?
The Neocons have been trying to start a war with Iran for quite some time now. Project for a New American Century (PNAC) wanted us to go to war with Iraq, Lebanon, and Libya, but Iran, also on their list of countries to attack, has managed to evade all of the propaganda they've deployed so far to drum up war.
Remember the hokey voice during the so-called stand-off in the Strait of Hormuz, threatening, "I am coming to youuu." "You will explode after a few minutes." Talk about amateur hour! The accent was ridiculously wrong and the intonation laughable!
The Iranians wisely videotaped the actual conversation between their patrol boat and a Naval warship, proving that they never made any of the threats that were widely played on the American news.
Once this hoax was uncovered, little was done to correct the mistake,leaving many Americans still believing that Iran threatened our warships.
Remember how the US alleged that Iran manufactured IEDs to bomb American soldiers, only to find out that the nomenclature for the date on those weapons was western, not Farsi? (IED slide show)
Upon whose word is this latest conspiracy theory blanketing the airwaves based?
Code-name: "Chevrolet," a Mexican drug cartel narc for the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
Gee, I wonder if he's the same FBI/DEA informant who smuggled firearms into Mexico?
Informant helped smuggle guns to Mexico, investigators say
An FBI/DEA confidential informant helped smuggle firearms from the ATF's Fast and Furious gun-trafficking surveillance operation to drug cartels in Mexico, according to evidence compiled by congressional investigators.
The investigators said the informant obtained the weapons from Manuel Celis-Acosta, considered by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to be the "biggest fish" of 20 individuals indicted in Fast and Furious. At the same time the informant was receiving large amounts of "official law enforcement funds as payment" for his services, they said.
Holder has said he learned of Fast and Furious after it was shut down, and did not know that ATF agents allowed more than 2,000 weapons to be illegally purchased in the Phoenix area. Many turned up at violent crime scenes in Mexico; two were recovered in December after a U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed in Arizona.
No, that gun smuggling informant's code-name was, CI#1, not Chevrolet.
Hey, if you can't trust a drug dealer, who can you trust?
This latest conspiracy theory has been hyped up all over the MSM by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Attorney General Eric Holder, and FBI director Robert Mueller, who admitted that the alleged assassination plot "reads like the pages of a Hollywood script."
Yeah, "Wag the Dog."
So, let me get this straight, the DEA/FBI paid an informant to smuggle weapons to Mexican cartels? Haven't our own brave agents been collateral damage to those smuggled weapons? And, if this alleged assassination plot is actually true, couldn't those smuggled weapons be deployed in acts of terror?
The Iranian man arrested, Mansoor Arbabsiar, charged as the QUD agent who approached the DEA's Mexican drug cartel informant to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador, was described by friends as having short term memory loss problems and no political ideology.
Dan Keetch, a used-car salesman in Corpus Christi, said Mr. Arbabsiar seemed deeply upset by the 2001 terrorist attacks, and asked him not to judge all Middle Easterners in a harsh light.
“He made a big deal about it,” Mr. Keetch recalled, “saying, ‘My friend, I’m not like that, the majority of my people are not like that.’ ”
His college roommated felt he couldn't have pulled off this alleged assassination plot.
Unlikely Turn for a Suspect in a Terror Plot
“His socks would not match,” said Tom Hosseini, a former college roommate and friend. “He was always losing his keys and his cellphone. He was not capable of carrying out this plan.”
Robert Baer, a former CIA officer, alerts us that Obama officials are "dangerously wrong" about this alleged plot.Ex-CIA warns US 'dangerously wrong' on Iran
I don't think it's credible, not the central government, there may be a rogue element behind it. This doesn't fit their modus operandi at all. It's completely out of character, they're much better than this. They wouldn't be sending money through an American bank, they wouldn't be going to the cartels in Mexico to do this. It's just not the way they work.
Alleged plot is uncharacteristically bold
Robert Baer, a former CIA case officer in the Middle East and author of several books on Iran, said there was “sloppiness about the case that defies belief.”
“Maybe things have really fallen apart in Tehran, or maybe there’s a radical group that wants to stir up the pot,” Baer said. “But the Quds are better than this. If they wanted to come after you, you’d be dead already.”
Middle East expert, Hillary Mann Leverett, warns us to be careful not to go to war based on this alleged Iranian assassination plot. She points out that there isn't any motive for Iran to assassinate the Saudi diplomat. She reminds us of the intentionally fraudulent forged Nigerian document alleging that Saddam Hussein was trying to purchase yellowcake to build nuclear bombs that was used to justify the Iraq War.
I hope that we step back and talk with Iran, just like Baer has suggested, to avoid yet another baseless war.
I will end this diary with a clip of Hillary Clinton talking about obliterating Iran. This response is the reason why I didn't support her, but voted for Obama. I hope Obama shows the sagacity and wisdom he displayed that won him the Presidency, in which he recommended diplomacy first.