I'm gonna reprint this
Alot of you may have seen this, but I think it's important enough to be posted here.
From the American Conservative Magazine
In Washington it is hardly a secret that the same people in and around the administration who brought you Iraq are preparing to do the same for Iran. The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. Within Iran there are more than 450 major strategic targets, including numerous suspected nuclear-weapons-program development sites. Many of the targets are hardened or are deep underground and could not be taken out by conventional weapons, hence the nuclear option. As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States. Several senior Air Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly appalled at the implications of what they are doing—that Iran is being set up for an unprovoked nuclear attack—but no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections.
Again, I think this is more posturing and threat to the Iranians that they'd best not work at cross purposes with Dick Cheney's PLAN. I mean, we couldn't just bomb Iran willy nilly because of the political as well as the nuclear fallout. Somehow, I just don't think that the world is gonna buy the Iraq argument on Iran.
But I do think this is significant in that it tells me, that the US has so little access to Al Quaida, their plans and operatives, that they believe an unwilling Iran being threatened into action would bave more effect than all our efforts, not to mention all our money, spent since 9-11.
I recognize that those two are not exclusive, but if our government had a handle on it, they wouldn't be publicly threatening Iran to get help.
Mike
From the American Conservative Magazine
In Washington it is hardly a secret that the same people in and around the administration who brought you Iraq are preparing to do the same for Iran. The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. Within Iran there are more than 450 major strategic targets, including numerous suspected nuclear-weapons-program development sites. Many of the targets are hardened or are deep underground and could not be taken out by conventional weapons, hence the nuclear option. As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States. Several senior Air Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly appalled at the implications of what they are doing—that Iran is being set up for an unprovoked nuclear attack—but no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections.
Again, I think this is more posturing and threat to the Iranians that they'd best not work at cross purposes with Dick Cheney's PLAN. I mean, we couldn't just bomb Iran willy nilly because of the political as well as the nuclear fallout. Somehow, I just don't think that the world is gonna buy the Iraq argument on Iran.
But I do think this is significant in that it tells me, that the US has so little access to Al Quaida, their plans and operatives, that they believe an unwilling Iran being threatened into action would bave more effect than all our efforts, not to mention all our money, spent since 9-11.
I recognize that those two are not exclusive, but if our government had a handle on it, they wouldn't be publicly threatening Iran to get help.
Mike
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