Allen L Roland

Protestor killed by Iran government forces (Twitter)

In March of 2002 Dick Cheney appointed his own daughter Elizabeth to head a shadow operation (ISOG) whose covert purpose was to fund dissident groups in Iran ~ money which may have been used to fund and arm terrorists. Obama has now evidently picked up where the Cheney's left off:

If you have any doubt that a shadow Cheney presidency existed during the last eight years that cast its evil over everything from the 9/11cover-up to Quantanamo ~ than picture Dick Cheney appointing his own daughter in 2002 to head up a secretive organization in Iran whose purpose was to fund terrorists ~ and which reported directly to Darth Vader himself, Dick Cheney. And why would Cheney appoint his own daughter ? Because she was the only person he could trust on his, self declared, journey to the dark side for she certainly would not testify against him. They both are now neck deep in deception and lies which is why they are openly defending their actions together on the mainstream TV circuit.

On April 11, 2006 I posted a column entitled CHENEY'S SECRET IRAN OPERATING GROUP ~ in which I summarized How the Office of Special Plans ( OSP ) fed tainted intelligence directly to Dick Cheney in the run up to the war with Iraq with the objective of regime change.

How also the Iran-Syria Operations Group (ISOG), was set up by Dick Cheney's daughter with the same objective of regime change in Iran ~ with a direct line to Dick Cheney.

How the real objective of OSP was to justify a war with Iraq which was most likely the case with ISOG ~ to promote a war or regime change with Iran.

There can no longer be any doubts as to who was running this country and who George W Bush answered to.

I included an article from The American Progress Report which stated ~ " The State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs is disgruntled by the Bush team's efforts to run its own Iran shop and skirt the traditional bureaucracy. The administration's pre-Iraq war creations of the White House Iraq Group (WHIG) and the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans (OSP) may suggest one possible answer for why the administration feels the need to set up a secretive Iran operating group.

OSP was created to cull intelligence to make the strongest possible case for war with Iraq, while WHIG helped market the war based on the selective intelligence the administration collected. Cheney is operating with more than $75 million at her disposal to ostensibly promote democracy in Iran." http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2006/04/11.html

Now let's fast forward to 2009 and ask this question ~ Did Obama dismantle the notorious and secretive ISOG which was dedicated to regime change in Iran regardless of the methods or consequences ?

Of course not, which explains Obama's present silence regarding Iran , and Steve Weissman,TRUTHOUT, picks it up from there with his timely and perceptive article Iran: Who's Diddling Democracy? http://www.truthout.org/061809J

Excerpt: " Back in 2007, ABC News reported that President George W. Bush had signed a secret "Presidential finding" authorizing the CIA to mount covert "black" operations to destabilize the Iranian government ... The plan had the strong backing of Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Steve Hadley and Deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams. As ABC noted, Abrams had earlier pled guilty to withholding information from Congress about efforts to destabilize the Sandinista government in Nicaragua during the Iran-contra affair of the 1980s... The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh subsequently confirmed the story, reporting that the Presidential finding focused on "on undermining Iran's nuclear ambitions and trying to undermine the government through regime change." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20203.htm

" Flash forward to the new presidency of Barack Obama. Did he and his CIA chief Leon Panetta cancel the destabilization program? Not that I can find. The tea leaves are murky, but they suggest that, so far at least, Team Obama remains wedded to the Bush-Cheney-Abrams destabilization of Iran.... According to Ken Timmerman, the executive director of the right-wing Foundation for Democracy in Iran ~ the Persian Service of Voice of America (VOA) clearly sided with the anti-Ahmadinejad candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi against those dissident groups who wanted to boycott the election entirely, the position Timmerman favored... Timmerman also saw the branding of Mousavi's "green revolution" as evidence that the US government was using its National Endowment for Democracy to support the former prime minister Mousavi . "The National Endowment for Democracy has spent millions of dollars during the past decade promoting 'color' revolutions in places such as Ukraine and Serbia, training political workers in modern communications and organizational techniques," Timmerman wrote on the right-wing newsmax.com. "Some of that money appears to have made it into the hands of pro-Mousavi groups, who have ties to non-governmental organizations outside Iran that the National Endowment for Democracy funds."

Weissman concludes by writing ~ " Does my reading of the tea leaves prove conclusively that the Obama administration was hell-bent on regime change? Not conclusively, but all the evidence points in that direction, especially now that many extremely reputable scholars are suggesting that Ahmadinejad probably did win more than a majority of the votes cast... Ahmadinejad is a very bad guy, as I have recently written elsewhere. But our opposition to him does not justify meddling in another country's election while proclaiming "universal democratic values."

So there you have it, Iran was in Cheney's gunsights for some time and he and his daughter Elizabeth's covert actions in Iran must be investigated ~ particularly in light of the current chaos in Iran and our part in covertly promoting it under the guise of Democracy. But more importantly, the Obama administration has evidently picked up where the Cheney's left off ~ and it must be halted immediately.

Allen L Roland http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2009/06/19.html

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Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net

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