Posted on 10/18/2004 4:18:34 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
Israel is preparing for military action against Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor and other nuclear facilities, including underground plans and storage depots, US defense officials say.
Officials said a transfer of 5,000 bombs in Israel is likely preparation for the attacks.
For Israel
nuclear weapons in Iran are far more intolerable
than missiles in Cuba were
for the USA.
The Kennedy administration risked nuclear war to get them out.
Israel will stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons
regardless of the consequences.
Period.
Most of the attack would come from submarines. If there are 15 targets that we want to hit two or three times, subs are the logical vehicle.
If Osama is hiding out in Iran, hope they get him too.
remember where Khomeani(sic) had been living for years and WAS supported by??????not carter or the U.S. BUT yup those toads FRANCE!!!!!!!!!!
There isn't enough time to try that approach, and the operative word is "try", because it is not guaranteed to work.
Remember, at least some of that noise about "resistance" is going to be straight from Iranian intelligence because they know we will have a natural tendency to hope that the "resistance" is actually effective. Look at the history of the OGPU's "The Trust", for instance, or at General Skoblin's White Russian emigre crock.
We don't have time to follow these and see which ones might be real and which ones are just a blind.
I have also considered this as a possibility, but I don't think Iran would be stupid enough to take on both the United States and Israel simultaneously.
I don't think there is a faster way to commit suicide than challenge two of the most powerful militaries on earth.
The Israelis just took a delivery for over 100 F-16i, which have range to Iran
trust me i wasn't defending jimmah--i think he was the worst president in my lifetime
totaly agree,we had oil-israel had contacts and oil,they were more western,yes he was bad to dissidents,and WHO were they??our enemies of today,just like we got the wrong guys in bosnia
Unfortunately, the people that were born during the reign of the Shah and living in Iran are just about decimated. Many of those people were forced into the military to fight Iraq for 8 years, or executed. This action almost wiped out all of the progress that the Shah brought about to Iran. The people that we see today were only told that the Shah had a relationship with the land of the Great Satan.
It is possible that the Iraqi airfields, (H-1 and H-2) could be used as a refueling/return refuge. It is not necessary to fuel in air. We own Iraq!
I seriously doubt the USA would be complicit in an Israeli attack on Iran. That would simply everything the arabs have tried to claim for years.
Correct.
Been some "hopeful" ideas posited here which need to be brought into focus.
1st: Israel cannot launch an airstrike against Iran without U.S. and Iraqi complicity. Jordan might be too stupid to notice a flight of bombers violating its airspace, but no one will believe Iraq and the U.S. didn't notice them flying all the way across Iraq.
2nd: Cruise missiles launched from the Indian Ocean are NOT going to take care of this problem. It's going to require heavy, heavy ordnance- think MOAB. And probably more than one hit on each buried site.
3rd: since a large majority of Iranians are pro-U.S., they won't be outraged at an american attack if these sites are not near civilian population centers. And perhaps they will understand even if they are.
We shall see. So many things going on that could shape the future of the world.
This will happen November 3rd and not a day sooner.
"why breath a word about any of this in advance?
are they nuts?"
No. I'm sure they would prefer not to have to do it. But they make no bones about it, and no one is going to stop them anyway, if they decide to go.
I suppose we should all harbor hopes that reason may prevail amongst the mullahs, though I wouldn't bet my paycheck on it; and I wouldn't object if the Israelis do what they decide they have to do.
I would like to second the contention that Carter was not only the worst President of my lifetime, but the worst President ever. It is hard to even know where to begin discussing the damage that knucklehead did.
The Israelis just took a delivery for over 100 F-16i, which have range to Iran
Then this.
I seriously doubt the USA would be complicit in an Israeli attack on Iran. That would simply everything the arabs have tried to claim for years.
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