will they opt for the Gulf of Tonkin as their historical analogy of choice or the Reichstag fire?

or?

…

ahhh… I feel so … liberal.

Seriously though, the military would be remiss in its duty if it didn’t have at least a dozen different plans to deal with every “hot spot” in the world. It doesn’t mean the administration is even considering any of them. They’re “contingency plans”, just in case something unforseen happens. Like Al Gore is right and we need more land further north to avoid the heat. The president can just make a call and say, “Implement the spork plan!”

You know, along with Bush’s Nazi police state and all the other things they’ve been predicting. Oh, oh, and attacking Syria. Definitely going to happen. Just wait.

Enrique: “Really? Israel has overwhelming supremacy over Hezbollah…”

Yes. Really.

And that there are two days left for Iran to accept the U.N. demand to cease nuclear arms research / production.

Psy-ops, ho!

What’s the Persian word for adult diapers?

Size Mahmoud.

- The Cat

So here’s the Beeb blowing the lid off a story whose lid has been blown off again and again and again:

What’s old is “new” again. Huzzah!

US contingency plans for air strikes on Iran Germany extend beyond nuclear sites and include most of the country’s military infrastructure, the BBC has learned.

It is understood that any such attack – if ordered – would target Iranian German air bases, naval bases, missile facilities and command-and-control centres.

The US insists it is not planning to attack, and is trying to persuade Tehran Berlin to stop uranium enrichment…

But diplomatic sources have told the BBC that as a fallback plan, senior officials at Central Command in Florida have already selected their target sets inside Iran Germany.

BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner says the trigger for such an attack reportedly includes any confirmation that Iran Germany was developing a nuclear weapon – which it denies.

Alternatively, our correspondent adds, a high-casualty attack on US forces in neighbouring Iraq Great Britan, could also trigger a bombing campaign if it were traced directly back to Tehran Berlin.

There, that’s better………

It is unfortunate that we have the Left to inflict their values on the United States at this time. If not for our biggest weakness Iran would be cowering behind their borders begging for mercy. It would be amazing how cooperative Iran would become if they were threatened with punitive action by a superpower unencumbered by the Left.

Regan had it right. The only thing the Islamofacist responds to is overwhelming force and the will to use it.

I would hope that if there were aggressive action with Iran it would punitive in nature, with no effort to rebuild their country after reducing it to ashes and putting them in the stoneage. It would be interesting to see how much money the Russians could get from them to rebuild from a smoldering ruin.

Many posts have expressed wishful thinking, and satisfaction, of using the force of a Superpower on a belligerant enemy. Perhaps this scenerio may yet well play out in that direction. If it does mark my words: If Iran is confronted with a Superpower that has the will to fight, especially if it’s intent is punitive, they will be the most cooperative people you have ever met in the blink of an eye.

These BBC & all revelations are all amusing, at best. What they are is fodder for the European, U.N. and leftie consumption, simply to have a chance to rant at Mr. Bush and to create faux significance for themselves.

Even Mr. Bush saying “I have no plans to attack Iran” is amusing. None such plans/actions w/b revealed to anyone remotely connected to the media (which is a constant hemmorhoid for them), and shouldn’t.

But diplomatic sources have told the BBC

Yeah, cause those diplomats know ALL about our operational military plans…

Lets see… diplomatic source… hmmm… washroom attendent at an embassy? and hmmm… it does NOT even say American diplomatic source… could it be an Iranian diplomatic source?

The overwhelming supremacy of the United States (even excluding our nuclear arsenal) militarily, means that there is little that Iran could do to interfere with a successful strike against them.

Really? Israel has overwhelming supremacy over Hezbollah…

Maybe they’re all right!

see-dubya on February 19, 2007 at 6:12 PM

I’m with see-dubya on this one, their all true. But first, feign a few aggressive movements, catalog the reactions, wear their forces down a little with the stress (i.e. keep them at a high state of readiness), then wait for the “trigger”.

If this had been an actual emergency, there would have been a series of news stories to damage the administration’s ability to govern, for example that Britney was Bush’s secret love child.

The overwhelming supremacy of the United States (even excluding our nuclear arsenal) militarily, means that there is little that Iran could do to interfere with a successful strike against them. We outclass them that much. Add in an unstopable SLBM attack and Iran becomes a helpless kitten in the jaws of a pit bull.

I don’t understand the media motive in doing publishing these stories. Are they really trying to warn Iran? Or is this a carefully laid disinformation plot on our part.

How many wrong “reports” of an impending attack will it take before the “Peter and the Wolf” syndrome takes over in Iran?

How many times will they “stand to” expecting a US attack based upon these media reports, before Iran’s leadership becomes complacent at a lower readiness posture? And then what will they do when the traitors in the press finally guess right?

Additionally, how many times will it take before the Sy Hersh lie-pig cabal are totally discredited?

“…But diplomatic sources have told We made up this part totally, false but true…”

“But diplomatic sources have told the BBC that as a fallback plan, senior officials at Central Command in Florida have already selected their target sets inside Iran.” LIAR The war college is just a think tank that plans scenerios for EVERY contingency. They already had the plan for Iraq years before Bush ordered it. It’s their job to make a hypothetical but accurate plan for just this type of scenerio…

“Frank Gardner ” Never heard of him, is he a friend of Jamil’s? This is also a weak attempt to give legitamacy to a fake story.

“were traced directly back to Tehran.” You have just reworded Bush’s speaches.