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Offline Fishu

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« on: April 08, 2006, 08:24:37 AM »
US considers use of nuclear weapons against Iran

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - The administration of     President George W. Bush is planning a massive bombing campaign against     Iran, including use of bunker-buster nuclear bombs to destroy a key Iranian suspected nuclear weapons facility, The New Yorker magazine has reported in its April 17 issue.

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The article by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh said that Bush and others in the White House have come to view Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a potential Adolf Hitler.

"That's the name they're using," the report quoted a former senior intelligence official as saying.

A senior unnamed     Pentagon adviser is quoted in the article as saying that "this White House believes that the only way to solve the problem is to change the power structure in Iran, and that means war."

The former intelligence officials depicts planning as "enormous," "hectic" and "operational," Hersh writes.

One former defense official said the military planning was premised on a belief that "a sustained bombing campaign in Iran will humiliate the religious leadership and lead the public to rise up and overthrow the government," The New Yorker pointed out.

In recent weeks, the president has quietly initiated a series of talks on plans for Iran with a few key senators and members of the House of Representatives, including at least one Democrat, the report said.

One of the options under consideration involves the possible use of a bunker-buster tactical nuclear weapon, such as the B61-11, to insure the destruction of Iran's main centrifuge plant at Natanz, Hersh writes.

But the former senior intelligence official said the attention given to the nuclear option has created serious misgivings inside the military, and some officers have talked about resigning after an attempt to remove the nuclear option from the evolving war plans in Iran failed, according to the report.

"There are very strong sentiments within the military against brandishing nuclear weapons against other countries," the magazine quotes the Pentagon adviser as saying.

The adviser warned that bombing Iran could provoke "a chain reaction" of attacks on American facilities and citizens throughout the world and might also reignite Hezbollah.

"If we go, the southern half of     Iraq will light up like a candle," the adviser is quoted as telling The New Yorker.[/b]
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Offline Captain Virgil Hilts

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« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2006, 08:36:42 AM »
Wow, such incredible facts from the illustrious Seymour Hersh, published in The New Yorker, that paragon of journalism.

It's a contingency plan. They have them for EVERYTHING. There are entire departments who do nothing but dream up scenarios and formulate contingency plans to respond to them, regardless of how far fetched the scenario actually is.

REAL NEWS there, what a freaking scoop.
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« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2006, 10:09:06 AM »
I think we should at least finish 1 of the 2 wars that we are in now before we embark on another boogey man bash.
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« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2006, 11:34:05 AM »
"investigative journalist Seymour Hersh ","A senior unnamed Pentagon adviser ","One former defense official ".

by george, i think we have solid proof here that hitler..er i mean booosh is going to nuke iran.
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« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2006, 11:40:48 AM »
Everyone who ever served in the military and left it is a "former defense official".
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« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2006, 11:44:38 AM »
"One former defense official said the military planning was premised on a belief that "a sustained bombing campaign in Iran will humiliate the religious leadership and lead the public to rise up and overthrow the government," The New Yorker pointed out."

Has this EVER worked? :confused:
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« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2006, 11:52:50 AM »
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I think we should at least finish 1 of the 2 wars that we are in now before we embark on another boogey man bash.


Oh heck, in the case of Iran, one nuke might start and end a war with one quick bomb drop.
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« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2006, 11:59:26 AM »
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"One former defense official said the military planning was premised on a belief that "a sustained bombing campaign in Iran will humiliate the religious leadership and lead the public to rise up and overthrow the government," The New Yorker pointed out."

Has this EVER worked? :confused:


Hiroshima and Nagasaki so yea I think it will work just dandy.
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Offline Ripsnort

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« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2006, 12:14:04 PM »
Operation PlowShare comes to mind...:O

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« Reply #9 on: April 08, 2006, 12:18:53 PM »
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki so yea I think it will work just dandy.


Really? I dont recall the japanese people rising up against the government, not after the 4 year long disaterous war, not after a few good years of conventional fire bombing, not even with threat of imminent invasion, and not even after the two nucler bombs..

Lets see, air attack didnt cause popolar rebellion against any of the following governemts:

British
German
Japanese
North Korean
North Vietnamese
Iraqi
Serbian

Did I miss any? Why do we think it would do so in Iran?
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« Reply #10 on: April 08, 2006, 12:23:03 PM »
April 17th..... ??????????????



top of the article
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« Reply #11 on: April 08, 2006, 12:32:39 PM »
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:cool: cool now the middle east can have a Grand Canyon to:lol
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« Reply #12 on: April 08, 2006, 12:52:45 PM »
I'm not a military stargitist or anything, but I remember history class when my teacher told us that in WW2 Hitler fought too many fronts at one time, If I remember correctly Germany lost WW2, so I could be wrong, but it seems to me that if we fight too many fronts at one time won't we lose too?
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« Reply #13 on: April 08, 2006, 01:18:50 PM »
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I'm not a military stargitist or anything, but I remember history class when my teacher told us that in WW2 Hitler fought too many fronts at one time, If I remember correctly Germany lost WW2, so I could be wrong, but it seems to me that if we fight too many fronts at one time won't we lose too?



this is not WW2, you do not fight a new war by the tactics of the last war.
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« Reply #14 on: April 08, 2006, 01:42:35 PM »
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Originally posted by dmf
I'm not a military stargitist or anything, but I remember history class when my teacher told us that in WW2 Hitler fought too many fronts at one time, If I remember correctly Germany lost WW2, so I could be wrong, but it seems to me that if we fight too many fronts at one time won't we lose too?




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this is not WW2, you do not fight a new war by the tactics of the last war.


Seems like you are fighting your new wars with the tactics of the losing pary of the "last war" you won (WWII). This far you don't seem to be any more successful either.
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