Like the skillful way in which the master magician leads you to watch his left hand while he palms the gold coin with his right so that at just the right moment you're convinced that he's made a coin materialize out of thin air, so the Bush administration seizes every opportunity to move while the nation is otherwise distracted.
While we all were otherwise occupied ... what was it? The War on Christmas? The round of victory speeches? The revelations of domestic spying? No matter, all the while the Bush administration was secretly marching us inexorably toward an invasion of Iran, as early as this spring.
With scant attention, CIA chief Porter Goss slipped into Turkey to deliver dossiers suggesting that Tehran is cooperating with al-Qaida, and providing frightening details of Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program. What is more, Goss assured Ankara that the Turkish government would be informed of any possible air strikes against Iran a few hours before they happened and suggested that the Turkish government would be given a green light to strike camps of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Iran on the day of the invasion.
The US and Iran: Is Washington Planning a Military Strike? - Spiegel International
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