[mkjessup]

This may force Israel to go for broke.
This kind of operation requires decisiveness. I don't think Barry or his minions have big balls.

This is why I think the odds are approximately 50/50 that when (not if) Israel takes out Iran like the garbage pail it is, that Netanyahu will go nuclear from the gitgo, and here's why:

Netanyahu knows that no matter if Israel tosses a few rocks across the border at Iran, or drops nukes on Tehran, Tabriz, Qom, Bushehr, etc., that the 'outrage' of the 'international community' will be the same, with the usual predictable condemnations, shriekings and wailings and the Palestinian whores waggling their tongues and making rude noises, it's all the same.

Iran has to be smacked down and HARD, never to arise again under the Islamofascist banner. The only way to do that is by radiating the miserable bastards and making their nuke facilities, military-industrial infrastructure AND their leadership glow in the freakin' dark.

Once the world understands that Israel means what it says with those two words "Never Again", they MIGHT just stop effin' around with Israel (at least for a little while).

The United States has been prematurely reduced to a paper tiger in the region, only because of our own estrogenic, hand-wringing so-called 'leadership' in the White House and the Congress. 0bama has already wee wee'd himself on this, he no sooner presides over a meaningless U.N. resolution on 'eliminating nuclear weapons' and Iran basically says "EFF YOU 0BAMA!", and he'll either under react (most likely) or he'll over react (unlikely but dangerous if he does).

As Howard Beale said in 'Network' "We're in a lotta trouble folks!"

[TigerLikesRooster]

Better to set off nuke(or nuke materials) already inside Iran, instead of hauling big bombs to the target via planes.

The way things are now, it may not be possible to perform clean operation without radiation leaks. The bombing will contaminate the entire neighborhood including the facilities, beyond habitation. Since the facilities are fortified and bombing can only damage them instead of putting them out of commission, this could increasingly be the case.

[islander-11]

Very good analysis. This reminds me of Israel’s decimation of the Egyptian army in the 6 Day War. They knew that if they did it right, they wouldn’t have to fight them again for some time.