Transcript:

I frankly think that crisis initiation is really tough, and it’s very hard for me to see how the United States president can get us to war with Iran, which leads me to conclude that if in fact compromise is not coming that the traditional way of America gets to war is what would be best for US interests.

Some people might think that Mr. Roosevelt wanted to get us in to the World War two as David mentioned. You may recall we had to wait for Pearl Harbor.

Some people might think mr. Wilson wanted to get us into World War One. You may recall he had to wait for the Lusitania episode

Some people might think that Mr. Johnson wanted to send troops to Vietnam. You may recall they had to wait for the Gulf of Tonkin episode.

We didn’t go to war with Spain until the USS Maine exploded, and may I point out that Mr. Lincoln did not feel he could call off the federal army until Fort Sumter was attacked which is why he ordered the commander at Fort Sumter to do exactly that thing which the South Carolinians had said would cause an attack.

So if in fact the Iranians aren’t going to compromise it would be best if somebody else started the war

But I would just like to suggest that one can combine other means of pressure with sanctions. I mentioned that explosion on August 17th. We could step up the pressure. I mean look people, Iranian submarines periodically go down – someday one of them might not come up.

Who would know why?

We can do a variety of things if we wish to increase the pressure. I’m not advocating that but I’m just suggesting that a it’s…this is not a either-or proposition of, you know, it’s just sanctions has to succeed or other things.

We are in the game of using covert means against the Iranians. We could get nastier than that.”

Israel Lobbyist – We Need A False Flag To Start War With Iran

Jan 3, 2020

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September 21, 2012, Patrick Clawson of the influential neocon Washington Institute for Near East Studies openly suggests that the United States should provoke Iran into taking the first shot. This warmongering Israel Lobbyist unabashedly suggests a false flag attack to start war with Iran. Just like the false flag of 911 that was perpetrated by Israel which caused the deaths of thousands of American civilians and soldiers, and over one million dead Iraqis, and for what? Oh that’s right, it was really done for the more than six trillion we have already spent on the war on terror for the greedy corporations that are the military industrial complex, the usury on this debt to the banking cartel, and to protect stolen Palestine, now apartheid Israel.

Clawson drew criticism for a presentation on September 21, 2012 [particularly the two minutes shown in this video] in which he suggested the United States could consider the use of “crisis initiation” as a method of provoking Iran into war. This was part of a presentation given with Dennis Ross and David Makovsky at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy entitled: How to Build U.S.-Israeli Coordination on Preventing an Iranian Nuclear Breakout.

The following list of false flag events are excerpted from:

American Exceptionalism: Fifty Ways The American Dream Has Become A Nightmare
by Mark R. Elsis

https://AmericanExceptionalism.net

Remember The Maine (1898)
RMS Lusitania Sinking (1915)
Pearl Harbor Attack (1941)
Gulf Of Tonkin (1964)
USS Liberty (1967)
Invasion Of Grenada (1983)
Invasion Of Panama (1989)
312 Babies Slaughtered In Their Incubators (1991)
Oklahoma City Bombing Of The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building (1995)
Attack On America (2001)
Iraq Has Weapons Of Mass Destruction (2003)
Libya Is Attacking Its Own People (2011)
Syria Used Chemicals Weapons (2013)
Flight MH17 (2014)
Iran Is Going To Get Nuclear Weapons (Ongoing)