It seems our boy Dick got straights A's in European history.

In the late evening of Thursday, August 31, 1939,
German covert operatives pretending to be Polish terrorists seized the
Gleiwitz radio station in the German/Poland border region of Silesia.
The station's music program came to an abrupt halt, followed by frantic
German voices announcing that Polish formations were marching toward
town. Germany was being invaded by Poland! Then, like a bad imitation
of the previous year's infamous War of the Worlds broadcast, the
transmission went dead for a moment of dramatic silence. Soon, the
airwaves popped and crackled to life again, and this time Polish voices
called for all Poles in the broadcast area to take up arms and attack
Germany. _In no time, radio stations across greater Europe picked up
the story. The BBC broadcast this statement: "There have been reports
of an attack on a radio station in Gleiwitz, which is just across the
Polish border in Silesia. The German News Agency reports that the
attack came at about 8.00pm this evening when the Poles forced their
way into the studio and began broadcasting a statement in Polish.
Within quarter of an hour, says reports, the Poles were overpowered by
German police, who opened fire on them. Several of the Poles were
reported killed, but the numbers are not yet known." And thus, Hitler
invented an excuse to invade Poland, which he did the next day:
September 1, 1939. World War II began.

EXCLUSIVE: To Provoke War, Cheney Considered Proposal To Dress Up Navy Seals As Iranians And Shoot At Them»

HERSH: There
was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war. The one that
interested me the most was why don’t we build — we in our shipyard —
build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy
seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes
to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up.