Posted on 04/08/2015 12:06:51 PM PDT by balch3
Washington (CNN)A U.S. military campaign against Iran's nuclear facilities would only take "several days" of bombing, Sen. Tom Cotton said Tuesday.
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Terrorism is the main commodity for Iran.
Didn’t the Chinese steal and test the design?
They may be underground but they had to build airshafts and access tunnels to get topside again. Bombing the sites would surely take out those exposed structures trapping the workers below ground for some time and I doubt they have long term survival supplies and equipment in that event.
I thought Bubba just sold them the info.
Once the ayatollas are bombed and dead, what’s left?
Nothing.
Or one bomb a couple hundred miles up could EMP their sorry butts. Lights out. Do what we say and then the lights come back on. Otherwise tough tacos.
The weeping brigades will emerge from the rubble.. Nothing new for this party of the globe.
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Radioactive crude oil should make some real high octane gasoline!
Iraq is as big and in less than three weeks we wiped out a large percentage of their command and control sectors before ground troops ever went in.
I’m no military expert but while I do agree with Senator Cotton that the U.S. military and whatever allies we could cobble together could indeed severely degrade the Iranian nuclear program through air and cruise missile strikes over a period of a few days that’s only if the Iranians agree to sit back and let us methodically destroy their nuke program. I seriously doubt they’ll be so accommodating. The $64,000 dollar question is how seriously will they retaliate. While any notion of some sort of conventional large scale land invasion of Iran is little more than hyperbole and a classic straw man the worst case and likely scenario is that the situation escalates completely out of control and the U.S. is staring down the barrel of a prolonged air campaign that more resembles the ‘99 NATO bombing of the former Yugoslavia or the ‘91 air campaign over Iraq & Kuwait than Desert Fox. You’re looking at potentially thousands of aim points the USN and USAF have to take out and consequently the U.S. probably loses a handful of aircraft and aircrew that we later have negotiate to get back. And as sure as the sun rises you can count on the liberals and the “world community” to raise holly hell while the U.S. tries to conduct its air campaign.
When all is said and done we probably delay the Iranian nuke program a few years and the Iranians go full tilt towards developing nuclear weapons. The best chance the U.S. had at permanently removing the Iranians as a nuclear threat was during the ‘09 protests in Iran, unfortunately Obama effectively torpedoed that option.
“Yeah right. Why didn’t we think of that in Iraq or Afghanistan?”
We obviously had a different mission in Iraq and Afghanistan. We weren’t there to destroy their nuclear capabilities. We were fighting the “war on terror” and “nation building”, don’t ya know...
Tom Cotton: Bombing Iran would take ‘several days’
Riiiight. And the Civil War was going to last three weeks. And the Iraq War was going to be a “cakewalk.” And the Vietnam War was going to be a short period of payback for the Gulf of Tonkin outrage.
Goodness I miss Reagan. He didn’t invade any countries, but he still won the Cold War. He did it through containment. What a leftist peacenik! Bush knew so much better how to do foreign policy - invade! Launch pre-emptive war!
Cotton is clearly a Bushite, not a Reaganite.
Grenada?
Cotton is clearly a Bushite, not a Reaganite.
That’s only your opinion. Cotton is a good man.
Grenada?
That was literally a weekend rescue operation.
Bottom line: Under Reagan, we were in a cold war with the USSR. We beat them without invading them or bombing them. We beat them through containment. Bush knew better - he invaded and occupied Iraq. In doing so, he turned that country into chaos - and a vassal state of Iran. And he also destroyed the GOP, and elected Obama and a Democratic Congress. Result: Obamacare. Bush was an idiot - and Cotton is the same for wanting yet another war in the Middle East.
If it’s that simple, he and his other idiot politicians should go an do it.
I think it’s at that point we start to find out what happened to all of those man pads we lost in Libya.
Yeah because they and their proxies will allow that to go unanswered.
Stop playing checkers.
If you are worried that ISIS has cells in the US, then Iran has 100x whatever IS has managed to get here. And Europe.
You are very shortsighted if you think it will end there.
You recall it incorrectly.
The area would be habitable in weeks. Not years.
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