09/02/07 "The Times" -- - Washington -- THE Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days, according to a national security expert.With our mouths agape, citizens of the world look on. Do Bush and Cheney really think Iran and the rest of the megamillions of Muslims around the world will just sit there and take it? Do Bush and Cheney really think that the U.S. citizens will welcome the start of WWIII? Do Bush and Cheney think there are no consequences to their actions and to the Neocon agenda?
Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, said last week that US military planners were not preparing for “pinprick strikes” against Iran’s nuclear facilities. “They’re about taking out the entire Iranian military,” he said.
Debat was speaking at a meeting organised by The National Interest, a conservative foreign policy journal. He told The Sunday Times that the US military had concluded: “Whether you go for pinprick strikes or all-out military action, the reaction from the Iranians will be the same.” It was, he added, a “very legitimate strategic calculus”.
President George Bush intensified the rhetoric against Iran last week, accusing Tehran of putting the Middle East “under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust”. He warned that the US and its allies would confront Iran “before it is too late”.
Bryan at Why Now? says it best:
A US attack on Iran will be viewed as an existential threat by Iran. They will react with everything they have, so you can forget oil production out of the Persian Gulf for months, if not years. The world economy will tank. The American economy will tank. The Shi’ia in Iraq will launch an all-out attack on US forces. It will be a disaster.
The response of these idiots to hurricane Katrina is a prime example of their competence. They lied us into an unnecessary and unwise war with Iraq. What is the point in starting more wars we can’t win?
Pull out of Iraq. Finish the job in Afghanistan. Catch Osama bin Laden. Rebuild the Gulf Coast. Those are doable, worthwhile objectives.
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Anyone got a bet on this? I'm thinkin' even odds at this point
We need to piss the Canadians off in a hurry so they can invade and set up a puppet government.
I don't see how we're going to escape intact from this horror of Bush's two terms of insanity.
Congress needs to deal with this immediately.
they should make it clear that officers who go alone with wars that aren't Congressionally sanctioned can forget seeing their names on promotion lists. [Officer promotions require Senate confirmation]
I keep on wondering on the raft of 'firings' of high ranking Naval officers as the Persian Gulf war games were being staged. (6 or 7 of them in all.)
I wonder if officers were being moved about depending on if they'd support an Iranian war or not.
Congress needs to make Bush and Cheney come back to them to ok an attack on Iran or any other country on earth.
Fix and finish the wars you started, you bastards.
Congress needs a spine first.
Let's let this guy beat some into them...
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