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Bush Setting America up for War with Iran
Telgraph.co.uk ^ | 9/17/07 | Philip Sherwell in New York and Tim Shipman in Washington

Posted on 09/18/2007 1:16:48 AM PDT by sierrascrapper

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Fasten your seatbelts folks. We will be experiencing a little turbulence.
1 posted on 09/18/2007 1:16:52 AM PDT by sierrascrapper
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2,000 is a good start.


2 posted on 09/18/2007 1:29:10 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (ETERNAL SHAME on the Treasonous and Immoral Democrats!)
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Don’t buy this one. Alot of inuendo by Bush haters.


3 posted on 09/18/2007 1:29:23 AM PDT by ChiMark
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>>>Pentagon planners have developed a list of up to 2,000 bombing targets in Iran,

In the last week I’ve read that line a dozen times, but this time it occurs to me that somewhere a bunch of Iranian staff officers are working night and day to answer the question WHICH 2000 targets would that be. The first hundred or so are simple, the nuke sites, airbases, SAM sites, etc. But rounding out the list in a nation as large as Iran has to be a job.


4 posted on 09/18/2007 1:31:21 AM PDT by tlb
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Well, there is the little thing called Congressional approval which given Democratic control is going to be unlikely to obtain.

I would put an attack on Iraq as a very low probability right now. I think the only thing that might change that would be an Iranian attack on US interests in the ME or elsewhere or on Israel.


5 posted on 09/18/2007 1:39:01 AM PDT by Roy Tucker ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality"--Ayn Rand)
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To: ChiMark

I concur. At most this is just a bit of saber-rattling by the US administration. More likely their contingency plans have been compromised.


6 posted on 09/18/2007 1:42:43 AM PDT by Vanders9
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I would put an attack on Iraq as a very low probability right now. I think the only thing that might change that would be an Iranian attack on US interests in the ME or elsewhere or on Israel.

The libs would be sending "I'm sorry for offending notes" instead of retaliation!

7 posted on 09/18/2007 1:48:13 AM PDT by Las Vegas Dave ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Hillary Clinton, June 2004.)
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To: sierrascrapper

So that’s the word from London (posted article from the Telegraph)! Things are getting very interesting, indeed! We’ll see what happens.

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8 posted on 09/18/2007 1:55:05 AM PDT by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt.)--has-been, will write Duncan Hunter in)
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The vice president is said to advocate the use of bunker-busting tactical nuclear weapons against Iran's nuclear sites.

I ask you, what's not to like about that guy?

9 posted on 09/18/2007 2:02:49 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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Senior American intelligence and defence officials believe that President George W Bush and his inner circle are taking steps to place America on the path to war with Iran

Which should have been done by the CARTER administration...

10 posted on 09/18/2007 2:15:04 AM PDT by papertyger
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I ask you, what's not to like about that guy?

Nothing. I don't think he gets the credit he deserves. He's a solid Conservative, more so than the President.
11 posted on 09/18/2007 2:17:45 AM PDT by Jaysun (It's outlandishly inappropriate to suggest that I'm wrong.)
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Bush Setting America up for War with Iran

You can lance a pustule when it's the size of a booger, or you can wait until it's the size of a grapefruit and you have to take off an arm to be quit of it.

12 posted on 09/18/2007 2:51:05 AM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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So far all US Presidents are skeered of Iran.

Bush 2 will be no different.

Hillary (Bush 3) will cowtow as well.

Until Iranian proxies (Iraq Lebanon Syria Palestine) attack Israel unleashing the prophesy.


BUMP

13 posted on 09/18/2007 2:56:46 AM PDT by capitalist229 (ANDS)
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You could have saved that until after breakfast!


14 posted on 09/18/2007 2:57:13 AM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (I made a prank call...pretended I was a mime.)
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To: sierrascrapper

If they didn’t at least plan for this contingency, I wouldn’t have voted for them in the first place. However, I’m not going to believe the Telegraph reporting, either. Besides, isn’t Iran already at war withus? How many of OUR soldiers have been killed by Qud forces in Iraq or by Iranian supplied weapons?


15 posted on 09/18/2007 2:59:24 AM PDT by SueRae
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I thought that Iran was already at war with US, they are continuing to send in supplies and AlQ replacements into Iraq. These authors must not be getting the NEWS.
16 posted on 09/18/2007 2:59:35 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy
You could have saved that until after breakfast!

Pustules, boogers, grapefruits...what's your point? (grin)

17 posted on 09/18/2007 3:23:43 AM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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“Congressional approval?”
“An Iranian attack on U.S. interests?”
You’ve got to be kidding.
First if this does happen, several dems will be informed just before it happens. There will not be time for the dems to stop it. It will be over too soon.(the original 2000 targets)
Second, just what the hell have the Iranians been doing for two or three years? Killing Americans in Iraq. To me that seems like targeting American interests.


18 posted on 09/18/2007 3:44:08 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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It’s a bunch of bull. He may be preparing, but he’s not going to pull the trigger. He’s going to leave it for his successor to decide.


19 posted on 09/18/2007 3:44:56 AM PDT by Brilliant
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Bookmarked, nevertheless.

Let's see how it all shakes out.

20 posted on 09/18/2007 3:46:53 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Visit this thread 1-hour from now. In that time, an average of 416.6 more ILLEGALS will be in the US)
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