Posted on 02/29/2012 6:38:38 PM PST by U-238
The Air Force has provided the White House with options for a strike against Iran's nuclear weapons sites, but a former top Pentagon official is warning America and Israel lack the weaponry to halt Tehran's atomic arms program.
Iran's defiant pursuit of nuclear weapons "has the attention of the [Joint] Chiefs and other national security officials," Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz told reporters Wednesday. "Our obligation is to provide options" to the defense secretary and the president, Schwartz said, "and we have done that."
President Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta have said for months they will continue with a plan based on increasingly severe sanctions aimed at weakening the regime in Tehran. But the U.S. leaders contend a military strike is very much on the table.
[Iran Flexes Military Muscle in Persian Gulf.]
The strike options apparently include dropping the Air Force's 30,000-pound "bunker buster" bomb. That weapon is designed to penetrate deep into the ground and take out deeply burried enemy targets.
Schwartz's revelation that strike options have been sent to the military's civilian bosses in the Pentagon's E-Ring and the White House came less than a week before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet with Obama in Washington. And it came six days after the former second-ranking U.S. general said flatly that the Air Force and Israel lack the firepower to bring Iran's nuclear arms program to a halt.
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I am sure the highest ranking general would not comment something like this.
The highest general probably leaked this to his subordinates.
Even though they wear uniforms, they are still subject to politics.
Unless the plan includes taking out the Mullahs in power it’s a waste of time. Give Israel the green light and it will be done and over in less than 72 hours....they will take everyone and everything out by air and the Mossad on the ground will handle the politicos and Mullahs...they won’t even know what hit them.
Command and Control is always a key priority. Especially in this type of this opeartion. Crush the snake’s head and the body dies.
Do not forget Rosa Brooks in the DoD. Look her up.
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