News We May Not Have to Bomb Iran After All
posted by on January 6 at 17:00 PM
Because Israel is apparently going to take care of it—according to the Sunday Times.
ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons. Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear “bunker-busters”, according to several Israeli military sources.The attack would be the first with nuclear weapons since 1945, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Israeli weapons would each have a force equivalent to one-fifteenth of the Hiroshima bomb.
Via Drudge.
I never thought the US would do Iran ...
Israel has few options, and there own nukes are THE hight card in their survival game.
Oh, the outcry if they do.
Of course, the Saudi Royal Family is their secret ally.
We're fucked if Israel pulls the trigger.
Iran is a paper tiger. It isn't and will never be a threat to us. That changes if our "ally" bombs it.
It's arms system doesn't have the range to hit us, but that doesn't mean they don't have massive leverage in a very strategic region.
Beacon, what does it matter if they can hit us? This isn't about us. The present danger involves Israel, not the US, and Iranian leaders have already asserted their undeterrable goal of wiping Israel off the map, viz. Ron Rosenbaum's blog post: http://ronrosenbaum.pajamasmedia.com/2006/12/21/israel_alas_is_not_going_to_wi.php
Not gonna happen. The Israeli's aren't half as stupid as we are.
Through the most recent Lebanon war, Iran has made it clear that it can strike back against any attack from Israel with Hezbolah too efficiently.
This "leaked plan" has the paws of the neo-cons all over it. A stupid, loud and inept solution to an otherwise smartly containable problem. Key line in this whole article: "...only if a conventional attack was ruled out and if the United States declined to intervene, senior sources said."
I'd read this as a fairly transparent attempt to build support in the US for intervention by the same fools who brought us the Iraq war.
Via Laura Rozen, the Sunday Times has made this prediction 5 times since March, 2005. Rupert Murdoch owns the Times.
That doesn't mean that this isn't getting serious. Picking Admiral Fallon to head Central Command means that the U.S. is likely thinking of applying the Navy's forces to some region. That would be wasted in our ground wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. So, Iran it is.
Here's the Laura Rozen link:
http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/005388.html
Ok. First off. Preemptive nuke strike = WWIII. Period. Israel will no longer exist. And the consequences for the rest of us will be horrible. Really. If not immediatley, within 5 years.
If you're inclined to try to justify a pre-emptive nuke strike against Iran just because Iran's president used nasty rhetoric, you are the dumbest person I have ever heard from (with the possible exception of our President).
Pajamas Media says why we should be skeptical of this Times reporter. Having said that, I'm pretty skeptical of Open Source Pajamas as well.
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Israel not existing, and the world doomed in five-years-theory may appeal to those who follow the Mayan calendar :)
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