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Bush setting America up for war with Iran
Telegraph ^ | 09/17/07 | By Philip Sherwell in New York and Tim Shipman in Washington

Posted on 09/16/2007 7:21:08 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

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1 posted on 09/16/2007 7:21:11 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; nuconvert; FARS; Cindy; AdmSmith; Southack; Grampa Dave; SunkenCiv; blam; ...

Ping!


2 posted on 09/16/2007 7:22:07 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
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This is public info?


3 posted on 09/16/2007 7:23:07 PM PDT by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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Yes, from U.K.’s Telegraph.
4 posted on 09/16/2007 7:24:21 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
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Over the next few weeks and months the US will build tensions and evidence around Iranian activities in Iraq."

Damned U.S.

Why can't we build evidence WITHOUT building tensions?

5 posted on 09/16/2007 7:25:17 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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Gee, the proverbial Martian reading this, without any historical context, would think that the big bad USA is trying to manufacture a war against the poor innocent Iranians.

Got bias?

6 posted on 09/16/2007 7:25:24 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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:) I understood that.

I meant, I was surprised that this ‘type’ of info was public.

Thanks though.


7 posted on 09/16/2007 7:27:01 PM PDT by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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GW and Cheney will take out Imanutjob, their nuke facilities and their military capabilities from air strikes only. We will need very limited boots on the ground to accomplish this task which will only take a few days to accomplish. This will not be another Iraq situation but will improve Iraq’s stability.


8 posted on 09/16/2007 7:27:02 PM PDT by jrooney (The democrats are the friend of our enemy and the enemy of our friends. Attack them, not GW!)
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They’re just teasing us.


9 posted on 09/16/2007 7:27:19 PM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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Just a mix of speculation and propaganda. There are certainly far more than 2,000 militarily significant targets in Iran ~ mentioning only 2,000 of them is designed (by the propagandists) to mislead the Iranian military into thinking we don't know everything.

At the same time most of this stuff comes from "W"'s critics who imagine that he's some sort of crazy warmonger.

That stuff's roughly on a par with our belief that if the Hildabeast takes over the government she's going to be diverting funds from her universal health care plan to secret detention camps where she's going to be rounding up and torturing Freepers ~ and that does not mean putting women's panties on our heads.

It really won't matter who is President if the Iranian ayatollahs get nuclear warheads and advanced missiles and begin picking off targets in Europe.

10 posted on 09/16/2007 7:30:05 PM PDT by muawiyah
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Hey Dingy Harry and nancy Baby, how about this for a re-deployment????
It’s what you wanted wasn’t it??


11 posted on 09/16/2007 7:31:03 PM PDT by o_zarkman44 (No Bull in 08!)
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Looks like Islam just might be a religion of peace once W gets done with it.


12 posted on 09/16/2007 7:33:58 PM PDT by txhurl
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It really won’t matter who is President if the Iranian ayatollahs get nuclear warheads and advanced missiles and begin picking off targets in Europe.
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I don’t see that ever happening. The iranians can get whatever they want from europe simply by threatening the use of force. They would never have to actually use force.


13 posted on 09/16/2007 7:34:29 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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Obviously, even France says war.
14 posted on 09/16/2007 7:34:51 PM PDT by SouthTexas
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I am interested in movements of Kurds, Shia Arabs, and Baluchis inside Iran. If they mount uprisings timed with U.S. bombing attacks, we may actually get to have foothold inside Iran.
15 posted on 09/16/2007 7:35:02 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
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I am interested in movements of Kurds, Shia Arabs, and Baluchis inside Iran. If they mount uprisings timed with U.S. bombing attacks, we may actually get to have foothold inside Iran.
16 posted on 09/16/2007 7:35:15 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
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It's not like we haven't made plans in the past. Circa 1939.

War Plan Red was a plan for war against Britain and Canada. British territories had war plans of different shades of red -- the UK was "Red," Canada "Crimson," India "Ruby," Australia "Scarlet" and New Zealand "Garnet."
War Plan Black was a plan for war with Germany. The best-known version of Black was conceived as a contingency plan during World War I in case France fell and the Germans attempted to seize French possessions in the Caribbean, or launch an attack on the eastern seaboard.
War Plan Brown dealt with an uprising in the Philippines.
War Plan Citron was for Brazil.
War Plan Emerald was for intervention in Ireland in conjunction with War Plan Red.
War Plan Gray dealt with invading a Caribbean republic.
War Plan Green involved war with Mexico or what was known as "Mexican Domestic Intervention" in order to defeat rebel forces and establish a pro-American government. War Plan Green was officially canceled in 1946.
War Plan Gold was a plan for war with France and French Caribbean possessions.
War Plan Indigo involved an invasion of Iceland. In 1941, during the German occupation of Denmark, the U.S. actually did occupy Iceland, relieving British units during the Battle of the Atlantic.
War Plan Lemon was for Portugal.
War Plan Olive was for Spain.
War Plan Orange was a plan for war against Japan, which formed some of the basis for the actual campaign against Japan in World War II.
War Plan Purple dealt with invading a Central American republic, or possibly with Russia (There may have been two different Purples).
War Plan Silver was for war with Italy.
War Plan Tan was for intervention in Cuba.
War Plan White dealt with a domestic uprising in the U.S., and later evolved to Operation Garden Plot, the general U.S. military plan for civil disturbances and peaceful protests. Parts of War Plan White were used to deal with the Bonus Expeditionary Force in 1932. Communist insurgents were considered the most likely threat by the authors of War Plan White.
War Plan Yellow dealt with war in China - specifically, the defense of Beijing and relief of Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War. War Plan Violet was for intervention in Chinese domestic events.

17 posted on 09/16/2007 7:35:25 PM PDT by Pistolshot (Every woman, who can, should learn to shoot, and carry a gun.)
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Forgive my naivete, but how can we take out their nuke facilities if their facilities are underground and ergo, protected? Looks like the best we could do is poison the area around them for oh...say...100 years. Do we have anything other than nukes that could really destroy their underground nuke facilities?


18 posted on 09/16/2007 7:35:28 PM PDT by XenaLee
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Option #2 sounds good to me. And long overdue.


19 posted on 09/16/2007 7:35:46 PM PDT by awakened (Remember -- There are no dead atheists.)
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We’ve been at war with Iran since 1979. It is high time to bring it to a successful conclusion.

Bomb’s away!!!


20 posted on 09/16/2007 7:37:10 PM PDT by Deo volente
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