What lies ahead…(via Britain’s Sunday Telegraph)
Strategists at the Pentagon are drawing up plans for devastating bombing raids backed by submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks against Iran’s nuclear sites as a “last resort” to block Teheran’s efforts to develop an atomic bomb.
Central Command and Strategic Command planners are identifying targets, assessing weapon-loads and working on logistics for an operation, the Sunday Telegraph has learnt.
They are reporting to the office of Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, as America updates plans for action if the diplomatic offensive fails to thwart the Islamic republic’s nuclear bomb ambitions. Teheran claims that it is developing only a civilian energy programme.
“This is more than just the standard military contingency assessment,” said a senior Pentagon adviser. “This has taken on much greater urgency in recent months.”
The prospect of military action could put Washington at odds with Britain which fears that an attack would spark violence across the Middle East, reprisals in the West and may not cripple Teheran’s nuclear programme. But the steady flow of disclosures about Iran’s secret nuclear operations and the virulent anti-Israeli threats of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has prompted the fresh assessment of military options by Washington. The most likely strategy would involve aerial bombardment by long-distance B2 bombers, each armed with up to 40,000lb of precision weapons, including the latest bunker-busting devices. They would fly from bases in Missouri with mid-air refuelling.
The Bush administration has recently announced plans to add conventional ballistic missiles to the armoury of its nuclear Trident submarines within the next two years. If ready in time, they would also form part of the plan of attack.
Israel will not sit still for another Holocaust, and neither will we. The Iranian mullahs do not understand that in attempting to obtain nuclear weapons, they are committing national suicide. An Iranian nuclear device means, in the by and by, the utter destruction not just of Iran’s mulla-cracy, but of the nation of Iran as an entity. Our probable military action to thwart Iran’s nuclear ambitions is actually in the service of the Iranian people, as well as in our own and our allies service. Hopefully, cooler heads in Iran will come to understand this, and we won’t be put to the test.
Look if the information has indeed been ‘leaked’ about the Special Forces missions, it is by choice of the Administration. Not a bad thing in view of the fact that we need to show that we are serious, and that The President will not allow Iran to go nuclear.
Next cup, is for the dangerous game of chicken we have been forced into, to head off the psychotic nuclear maniac in charge of Iran. One prescient piece of advice for the West…don’t play chicken with someone who’s not afraid to die.
This Neo-Hitler must be stopped, plain and simple. I am somewhat astounded that no action has transpired thus far when contemplating what Isreal deemed necessary against Saddam in the early 1980s. We cannot afford to allow this despot to acquire the unthinkable, the consequences are too much to fathom.
(Hat Tip - StoptheACLU)
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