06/02/06 — –Former CIA analyst and Presidential advisor Ray McGovern, fresh from his heated public confrontation with Donald Rumsfeld, fears that staged terror attacks across Europe and the US are probable in order to justify the Bush administration’s plan to launch a military strike against Iran, which he thinks will take place in June or July.

Appearing on The Alex Jones Show, McGovern was asked about the timetable for war in Iran and said that behind the diplomatic smokescreen, the final chess pieces were being moved into position.

“There is already one carrier task force there in the Gulf, two are steaming toward it at the last report I have at least – they will all be there in another week or so.”

“The propaganda has been laid, the aircraft carriers are in place, it doesn’t take much to fly the bombers out of British and US bases – cruise missiles are at the ready, Israel is egging us on,” said McGovern.

McGovern said Iran’s likely response to a US air strike would be threefold – mobilizing worldwide terrorist cells that would make Al-Qaeda look like a girls netball team – utilizing its cruise missile arsenal to attack US ships and sending fighters into Iraq to attack US forces.

“The Iranians can easily send three divisions of revolutionary guard troops right over….the long border with Iraq,” said McGovern, stating that the local Sunni population of Iraq would welcome such an invasion.

The turmoil caused by such an action would lead the US to tap its so-called ‘mini-nuke’ arsenal said McGovern, opening a new Pandora’s box of chaos.

McGovern highlighted President Bush’s all time record low approval ratings as a reason for launching an attack on Iran to again whip up false patriotic fervour.

“I can see Karl Rove saying, ‘look what you need to do is become a war president again, get us involved with something pretty big here and then strut around and say you can’t vote for a bunch of Democrats to pull the rug out from under me while there’s a war going on’.”