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Thread ID: 19418 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2005-08-04
2005-08-04 13:52 | User Profile
[url=http://amconmag.com/2005_08_01/article3.htm]Link to The American Conservative original article[/url]
Well, I guess this answers the very reasonable question Ponce and others have repeatedly raised concerning how we can make war on Iran when we have no troops....
Deep Background
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 Cheneyââ¬â¢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 doingââ¬âthat Iran is being set up for an unprovoked nuclear attackââ¬âbut no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections.
2005-08-04 14:54 | User Profile
If the US attacks Iran then the US will find themselves with the tail of another tiger in their hands not only because the Iranians are ready to fight but also because a lot more Islamics will join the fight against the US and Israel.
I don't think that the UK will fall for WMD again like they did in Iraq so they wont be part of the games.
The only ones that will benefit from this new war, as they are doing in Iraq, will be the Zionist state of Israel.
By the way, something that you don't hear in the American news is about the 5,000, or more, Americans soldiers gone AWOL in Iraq.