Posted on 09/01/2007 6:10:03 PM PDT by blam
Will President Bush bomb Iran?
By Tim Shipman in Washington
Last Updated: 12:17am BST 02/09/2007Page 1 of 3
In a nondescript room, two blocks from the American Capitol building, a group of Bush administration staffers is gathered to consider the gravest threat their government has faced this century: the testing of a nuclear weapon by Iran.
President Bush dramatically stepped up his war of words with the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The United States, no longer prepared to tolerate the risk that Iranian nuclear weapons will be used against Israel, or passed to terrorists, has already launched a bombing campaign to destroy known Iranian nuclear sites, air bases and air defence sites. Iran has retaliated by cutting off oil to America and its allies, blockading the Straits of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf bottleneck, and sanctioned an uprising by Shia militias in southern Iraq that has shut down 60 per cent of Iraq's oil exports.
The job of the officials from the Pentagon, the State Department, and the Departments of Homeland Security and Energy, who have gathered in an office just off Massachusetts Avenue, behind the rail terminus, Union Station, is to prevent a spike in oil prices that will pitch the world's economy into a catastrophic spin.
The good news is that this was a war game; for those who fear war with Iran, the less happy news is that the officials were real. The simulation, which took four months, was run by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank with close links to the White House. Its conclusions, drawn up last month and seen by The Sunday Telegraph, have been passed on to military and civilian planners charged with drawing up plans for confronting Iran.
News that elements of the American government are working in earnest on how
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One can only hope!
Agree bump.
I would say the odds were slim to none!
Yea, just make it a nuke...many of them!
Bring it on. We have nothing to fear but fear itself...
We’re more ready than most people know, and it’s all up to the CINC.
Why waste Nukes on these animals. A couple of day’s worth of conventional bombs would settle the problem. Less collateral damage and innocent deaths.
Not if he finds out it is filling up with illegal immigrants from Syria. /semi sarc>
Will Pres. Bush bomb Iran? If necessary.
President Nutjob is talking like saddam and the taliban...we're spread to thin...we'll never attack him. Big mistake on his part....we've got the jets just a waitin' for the go signal...
I frankly doubt it.
Sounds like a plan! It would piss-off the dhimmicRATS, and probably return the house and senate to the pubs in '08, along with the White House.
Americans love a winner, and they hate whiney losers ..................... FRegards
I agree.
Frankly, why would we want Iran to know what our plans are? Whether or not, is none of their business. Let them do what they have said, we have NO reason to tell them anything.
I’ve seen this question in the MSM time after time, and each time I laugh. “Loose lips sink ships” has never been more true. If Achmadinejad is our declared enemy, then to tell him what we are going to do or not do is the height of folly, yet the MSM keeps demanding to know.
They can go jump in a lake. Conducting a war in the media would be really really stupid, yet apparently the MSM thinks it is their right to a) know and b) tell.
*sigh* What idiots.
No
Mess with the bull and you should expect to get the horns.
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