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.

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.

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.

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.

http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/005388.html

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).