Posted on 04/18/2010 11:50:56 AM PDT by DukeBillie
The Pentagon and U.S. Central Command are updating military plans to strike Iran's nuclear sites, preparing up-to-date options for the president in the event he decides to take such action, an Obama administration official told CNN Sunday. The effort has been underway for several weeks and comes as there is growing concern across the administration's national security team that the president needs fresh options ready for his approval if he were to decide on a military strike, according to the official who is familiar with the effort. The official did not want to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the work being conducted. Meanwhile, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continued to amp up his rhetoric against the West on Sunday, claiming that Iran is so powerful today that no country would dare attack it. "Iran's army is so mighty today that no enemy can have a foul thought of invading Iran's territory," the Iranian leader said in a speech, according to state media.
The Iranian leader has had choice words for Obama and other Western leaders, especially after not receiving an invitation to the nuclear summit hosted in Washington last week. Obama has been pressing the U.N. Security Council to slap Iran with tougher sanctions for its nuclear ambitions. Iran says that its nuclear program is intended for civilian purposes. In January, Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote a classified memo to the White House raising concerns about whether the administration had a sufficient policy in place, along with military options, for stopping Iran's progress in getting a nuclear weapon, the official confirmed.
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The way out of Afganistan is THRU IRAN.
Nothing New, Commands update war plans all the time...
Does the contingency planning involve white flags being distributed to the Office of the President, Speaker of the House and Majority Leader in the Senate?
exactly.
The article and some of the responses in this thread are nonsense.....no big deal....
This president doesn’t have the backbone to do a damn thing.
W should have taken care of this while he had the chance.
Well, this DID come from CNN.
(Info based on a Quinn and Rose radio broadcast last week sometime)
I always get the feeling we do that in order to try and persuade Israel not to retaliate with nukes.
“W should have taken care of this while he had the chance.”
We should demand to know who it was who produced that NIE back in 2007 that stated that Iran had ceased its weapons programs.
Those people did it for purely political reasons. They should be tried for treason and executed.
No telling, but I don’t think the Obama administration wants another Iraq on their hands. But might by a slim chance do something that’s short, sweet, and pointless. Seems to be what Obama does best besides bait different bunches of people like Israel and conservatives.
Obozo ordering the design of our surrender plans?????
Gosh I hope the plans are like a French rifle; dropped once, never fired. Obama’s plans are synonymous with a French rifle.
Could be. Or maybe this has something to do with it?
Gates: U.S. lacks strategy to curb Iran nukes NYT
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=142213
Secret 3-page memorandum sparks effort to develop new options for Obama
Or this?
Tehran hosts its own nuclear meeting...
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63G0YI20100417
Or maybe it was that ‘sweat’ insult?
Ahmadinejad ridicules Obama’s strategy: ‘Wait until your sweat dries and get some experience’...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100407/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_nuclear
‘He is an amateur’...
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6362IJ20100407
Why bother designing plans when Obama’s greatest desire is to see Iran in possession of nukes, and Israel a smoking crater?
Appears like more MSM covering for the administration.
Shocking it’s CNN doing it [S]
Obama’s update will be to use find and replace and replace Iran with Israel, and Akmud Imanutjob with Netanyahu everywhere in the plans.
Ha...0bambi channeling Regan....the bombing begins in 10 minutes....
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