PoliTalking #15 - A War in Iran?

The ink was barely dry on Seymour Hersh’s article in The New Yorker this week before it was being picked up  and  elaborated on  by MSM and alternative media sources around the world.  The president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, even took the time to respond to the allegations in the report, which he dismissed as deliberate posturing by the U.S. at the same time as our own president dismissed them as “ wild speculation .”  Seymour Hersh has been warning us about the Bush administration’s plans for war in Iran for some time , but his sources in this week’s article have an even more terrifying message — that the United States has been contemplating the use of tactical nuclear weapons in a potential air assault on Iran designed to take out its uranium-enrichment capability.  The fact that the tactical nuclear option is categorically opposed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff is of only limited comfort when one considers the number of high-level a...