6/15/07: A recent article by Gareth Porter, author of Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam, points to the dangerous pretexts the Bush regime is making for war on Iran:
Following revelations of a George W. Bush administration policy to hold
Iran responsible for any al Qaeda attack on the U.S. that could be
portrayed as planned on Iranian soil, former national security adviser
Zbigniew Brzezinksi warned last week that Washington might use such an
incident as a pretext to bomb Iran.
Brzezinski, the national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter
from 1977 through 1980 and the most senior Democratic Party figure on
national security policy, told a private meeting sponsored by the
non-partisan Committee for the Republic in Washington May 30 that an al
Qaeda terrorist attack in the United States intended to provoke war
between the U.S. and Iran was a possibility that must be taken
seriously, and that the Bush administration might accuse Iran of
responsibility for such an attack and use it to justify carrying out an
attack on Iran.Brzezinski suggested that new constraints were needed on
presidential war powers to reduce the risk of a war against Iran based
on such a false pretense. Such constraints, Brzezinski said, should not
prevent the president from using force in response to an attack on the
United States, but should make it more difficult to carry out an attack
without an adequate justification.