If this is true, why are we hearing about it? I just love when some reporter digs and finds out top secret information and then puts peoples lives at risk in order to "break the story".

Reuters

The United States has been conducting secret reconnaissance missions inside Iran to help identify potential nuclear, chemical and missile targets, The New Yorker magazine reported Sunday.

The article, by award-winning reporter Seymour Hersh, said the secret missions have been going on at least since last summer with the goal of identifying target information for three dozen or more suspected sites.

Hersh quotes one government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon as saying, "The civilians in the Pentagon want to go into Iran and destroy as much of the military infrastructure as possible."

One former high-level intelligence official told The New Yorker, "This is a war against terrorism, and Iraq is just one campaign. The Bush administration is looking at this as a huge war zone. Next, we're going to have the Iranian campaign."

That's nice to know. How about you all keep your freakin' yaps shut while we try to negotiate things diplomatically without having to resort to the military actions that they say they don't want to happen?

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