U.S. Attack on Iran Likely!!

Some of this adds up...

Source: U.S. Strike on Iran Nearing

Monday, April 14, 2008 9:37 PM By: Jim Meyers

Contrary to some claims that the Bush administration will allow diplomacy to handle Iran's nuclear weapons program, a leading member of America's Jewish community tells Newsmax that a military strike is not only on the table - but likely.   "Israel is preparing for heavy casualties," the source said, suggesting that although Israel will not take part in the strike, it is expecting to be the target of Iranian retribution.   "Look at Dick Cheney's recent trip through the Middle East as preparation for the U.S. attack," the source said.   Cheney's hastily arranged 9-day visit to the region, which began on March 16, included stops in Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman, Turkey, and the Palestinian territories.   Tensions in the region have been rising.   While Israel was conducting the largest homefront military exercises in its history last week, Israel's National Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer warned Tehran about expected attacks on the Jewish state.   "An Iranian attack will prompt a severe reaction from Israel, which will destroy the Iranian nation," he said.   He predicted that in a future war, "hundreds of missiles will rain on Israel," but added that Iran "is definitely aware of our strength."   In addition to long-range missiles Iran has been developing to strike Israel, Israel's military strategists see the Iranians using terror groups they back like Hamas operating from Palestine and Hezbollah from Lebanon to launch attacks.   Iran has supplied Hezbollah with an arsenal that now contains "tens of thousands of missiles," according to the Washington Post.   IIsrael's recent war exercises, including preparations for chemical and biological weapons attacks, drew a sharp response from Syria which held its own military drills. The Syrian government accused Israel of preparing for a war which Damascus predicted would be begin anytime between May 1 and the end of June.   Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently told foreign journalists that Israel needs to confront the threat posed by Iran. Privately he has been telling associates his number one priority is have the Israeli military strike Iran if the U.S. is unwilling.   The Israeli newspaper Haaretz disclosed that Israel is concerned that North Korea has transferred technology and nuclear materials to Iran to aid Tehran's secret nuclear weapons program.   Iran remains intransigent to international pressure that it offer full transparency relating to its nuclear program. On Sunday the head of Iran's nuclear program "abruptly canceled a meeting with the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, dealing a blow to the U.N. monitor's efforts to investigate allegations that Iran tried to make nuclear arms, an agency official said," according to an AP report.   "But a senior diplomat had told the AP that IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] head Mohamed ElBaradei likely planned to use the meeting with Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, the head of Iran's nuclear program, to renew a request for more information on allegations Tehran had tried to make atomic arms."   A number of signs indicate that, contrary to the belief President Bush is a lame duck who will not act before he leaves office, the U.S. is poised to strike before Iran can acquire nuclear weapons and carry out the threat of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to "wipe Israel off the map":   According to intelligence sources, the administration now rejects the National Intelligence Estimate report issued in December that asserted Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program in late 2003.     The French daily Le Monde reported in March that newly surfaced documents show that Iran has continued developing nuclear weapons. In late 2006, U.S. intelligence reportedly intercepted a phone conversation in Iran's Defense Ministry in which the nuclear weapons program was discussed.     The commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, Admiral William Fallon, resigned in March amid media reports that he broke with President Bush's strategy on Iran and did not want to be in the chain of command when the order comes down from the President to launch a strike on the Islamic Republic.     Democrats suggested he had been forced out because of his candor in opposing Bush's Iran plans, and Esquire magazine contended that Fallon's departure signaled that the U.S. is preparing to attack Iran.     According to a Tehran-based Iranian news network, Press TV, Saudi Arabia is taking emergency steps in preparing to counter any "radioactive hazards" that may result from an American attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.     The Saudi newspaper Okaz disclosed that the Saudi government has approved nuclear fallout preparations, and the Iranian network reported that the approval came a day after Cheney met with the kingdom's high-ranking officials, further stating that the U.S. "is now informing its Arab allies of a potential war."     The American commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, has stepped up criticism of Iran, telling Congress last week that Iranian support for Shiite militias posed the most serious threat to Iraq's stability. He told senators : "Iran has fueled the violence in a particularly damaging way." Last week, the U.S. said Iran was providing insurgents with missiles that were killing Americans and hitting targets within the U.S. occupied Green Zone in Baghdad.     MSNBC Commentator Pat Buchanan said Petraeus' remarks to Congress lay the groundwork for a U.S. attack on Iran.     President Bush said in a speech at the White House on April 10 that Iran, along with al-Qaida, are "two of the greatest threats to America."     He said Iran "can live in peace with its neighbors," or "continue to arm and train and fund illegal militant groups which are terrorizing the Iraqi people ... If Iran makes the wrong choice, America will act to protect our interests and our troops and our Iraqi partners."   He later told ABC News that if Iran continues to help militants in Iraq, "then we'll deal with them."   Members of Congress are said to have been briefed by the administration about the rising Iran threat.   Iran did little to cool tensions when it announced that it had begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant in Natanz.   Centrifuges can enrich uranium to a low level to produce nuclear fuel or a high level for use in weapons.   The announcement of the new centrifuges by President Ahmadinejad came on April 8, Iran's National Day of Nuclear Technology, which marked the second anniversary of Iran's first enrichment of uranium.   Iran already has about 3,000 centrifuges operating in Natanz, and the new announcement was widely seen as a show of defiance to international demands to halt a nuclear program that the U.S. and its allies insist is aimed at building nuclear weapons.

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No doubt we need to attack Iran. Though we do need quite a plan to do it or we could go home very humiliated which would make the Liberals very happy.

Here's my plan.

 1. 2 million ground troops. Go in after massive airstrikes to take out a big deal of Iran's military.

2. Take out the dictator and the government very quickly after troops take over Teheran.

3. Secure the borders fast before Bin Laden sends terrorist reinforcements from Syria, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

4. Put a gag order on the Liberal media so they don't undermine the troop effort.

5. Ignore the U.N.'s protests and from Europe. This is OUR country and we defend it as we want.

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Or we could simply do as we did with Japan. All it would take is one to make that region a sea of glass. They don't fear us because we've not given them a reason to - it's time.

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You  can't just decide to bomb a country because you don't like their politics!  What is happening in this country that promotes this kind of thinking?  This kind of thinking is doing nothing but promoting a One World Order!  Stop it!!!  They don't like us either!  Does that give them the right to decide to come on in and take us out?  NO.... They don't have what it takes to do that, and the sooner people understand that the better off they are going to be.  I can see that some people are reacting the exact way they want them to.  That would be to run scared and beg them to protect you!  Well, they don't care about you!  Understand that.  They want you to beg them to take away all of your individual rights.  I don't know about you but I don't want them to be my mommy and daddy!  I want my rights and I'll take care of my family!  Get a grip!  Save our Constitution! Save our rights!

Lady Jane, I myself do not like Iran or what it is attempting to do. It will have to be delt with. I also believe in saving our Constitution & all of our rights, and if needed I will deal with that on a personal level.

Islam is not going to allow us to lay in peace, nor will they allow the world to lay in peace. I have been reading the Koran/Quran since 9/11 know your enemy. They are set to destroy us at all cost. Iran is the main push behind it due to the fact they are waiting on the 12 Imam to return & they have built a street to this as well as a welcoming point. I do not like it, I know you do not like it. But the world we know is about to end.

Be prepared to take care of you  & your own, no one else will. I have written many times before on the cost of Freedom & Freedom of Speech. It is all good, but things are changing & changing fast. Remember none of us have the ability to stop what is set into motion.

LIVE FREE & SPEAK FREE !!

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ManforFreedom said:

Lady Jane, I myself do not like Iran or what it is attempting to do. It will have to be delt with. I also believe in saving our Constitution & all of our rights, and if needed I will deal with that on a personal level.

Islam is not going to allow us to lay in peace, nor will they allow the world to lay in peace. I have been reading the Koran/Quran since 9/11 know your enemy. They are set to destroy us at all cost. Iran is the main push behind it due to the fact they are waiting on the 12 Imam to return & they have built a street to this as well as a welcoming point. I do not like it, I know you do not like it. But the world we know is about to end.

Be prepared to take care of you  & your own, no one else will. I have written many times before on the cost of Freedom & Freedom of Speech. It is all good, but things are changing & changing fast. Remember none of us have the ability to stop what is set into motion.

LIVE FREE & SPEAK FREE !!

 

Here Here !! You speak the undeniable TRUTH. If only more people would take the time to read the Koran and study THEIR history ! Their intentions are clear. It is all available for people to read and wake from the PC sleep BEFORE it is too late.

Oh but Boom Boom will save us.

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 Oh great- I can hardly wait for another petrodollar war and -

1) Oil prices going through the roof, and my dollar sliding further. 

2) The Rothchilds and Co.  adding another country to their list.

3) More National Debt - which means more money for the Rockefellers and Rothchilds (the puppetmasters)

3) More U.S soldiers  die promoting the new world order and dollar   hegemony.

4)China getting their energy supply interupted and responding by dumping dollars.  

5) All the chickenhawk neocons unknowingly cheerleading their own demise, believing  this war is actually to fight terrorism. 

But hey bomb Iran right!  It will take our minds of the economic meltdown here in the once great USA, and reduce the unemployment roles by creating more jobs in the military. 

 

 

 

 

Phil Covone said: Or we could simply do as we did with Japan. All it would take is one to make that region a sea of glass. They don't fear us because we've not given them a reason to - it's time.

 

Whynot let Israel do this? 

Besides Boom Boom, remember John McCain singing about "Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran" to the tune of "Barbara Ann"? We have quite a bunch up for prez and an indescribable bunch in the capitol.

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Hey, gang...there are many ways to 'attack' Iran...certainly, bombing their key nuclear infrastructure would be one way but I think we can be much more subtle -- and more effective -- than by conducting a conventional strike on their facilities.

If there were to be a physical strike it would carefully coordinated with all of Iran's neighbors -- some would be part of the operations to one degree or another and others would be warned not to take any precipitous actions during or after a 'regional event.'

The other major powers would have been advised to prevent any 'unfortunate misunderstandings.' Iran has no major power sponsors and would get no more help than lots of hot air in the UN Security Council -- but that's all posturing and no action.

But I suspect that a 'strike' on Iran would be more like providing overt assistance to the various opposition groups that now nibble around the edges of the Shi'a Empire. I have an Iranian friend who is based in Farah Province, Afghanistan, who belongs to a group that routinely sets off bombs and conducts gun attacks on Iranian para-military police...he and his group are not alone in their efforts...most of the 75% of Iranians who are 30 or younger vehemently dislike the Mullah & Iman-led theocracy there. With the right prompting, they'll rise up in massive civil disobedience that will make Iran ungovernable.

I think some people are reading their own desires for a quick & violent solution to the Iran problem into the article...if the US were to lead a military strike on Iran the strike(s) will be massive, high-order and designed to cause maximum damage to the Iranian nuclear program and Iran's military capability while causing the fewest casualties (civilian and military) possible...the Iranian people are generally friendly toward the West and it would be a huge mistake to cause enough casualties to turn them against our -- and their -- objectives.

During the many years I worked in that part of the world since the Shah's overthrow I've known many Iranians...most are decent, honorable people. Given the chance, they'll drop radical Islam faster than Hillary can tell a lie...and many will abandon Islam entirely...they want to be just as debauched as we in the West.

So, let's not get our knickers in a knot just yet...some really smart and devious-minded people are working on the problem right now. 

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We sit on top of the world's largest oil reserve's right here in our 48 contiguous.  This war is much much more than a war about oil.  If you do not see this then I pray that you'll come to know Christ as your Saviour.

Is there a link to this article??  Thanks

Bearclaw said:

 Oh great- I can hardly wait for another petrodollar war and -

1) Oil prices going through the roof, and my dollar sliding further. 

2) The Rothchilds and Co.  adding another country to their list.

3) More National Debt - which means more money for the Rockefellers and Rothchilds (the puppetmasters)

3) More U.S soldiers  die promoting the new world order and dollar   hegemony.

4)China getting their energy supply interupted and responding by dumping dollars.  

5) All the chickenhawk neocons unknowingly cheerleading their own demise, believing  this war is actually to fight terrorism. 

But hey bomb Iran right!  It will take our minds of the economic meltdown here in the once great USA, and reduce the unemployment roles by creating more jobs in the military. 

 

 

 

 

 

BEARCLAW.......I DO BELIEVE YOU HAVE IT RIGHT!

And don't forget, folks, he who makes the money, makes the rules!

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jC, you have one fly in your soup, and that is  the reliance on Iran's neighbors.  They may be worried about Iran obtaining nukes, yet, please don't forget, we are talking Muslims here.  The little cowards sell their souls to the devil for 72 virgins.  Are you sure you want to trust them with a monumental task as the one you are proposing?

And as for power sponsors, don't forget China and Russia. 

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Bussm1--here you go...

http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/iran... 

 

The globalist elitist will manufacture reason to invade Iran. They must, because globaism cannot go foreward as long as nationalist countries exist. If Iran were a poor country like Cuba, without needed resources, they would just place trade sanctions against them and starve them out, however Iran has oil the world needs. That makes a more urgent situation, so invasion will probably take place. The global elitist must remove Ahmadinejad, and insert a leader frindly to the globalist agenda. Ahmadinejad was democraticly elected if he were not we would be hearing what a brutal tyrant he is, but that won't work in this scenario so they will find another reason. We should be reminded that in 1967 Israel defeated Egypt, Syria and Jordan all at once, in a mere 6 days, therefore this cannot be about Israels ability to defend herself.

Elaina & Algebra -- I sincerely doubt that our 'friends' in the region would be part of any actual military strike on Iran but we would use our facilities on their turf as launching pads - with their permission and blessings. Nobody in the senior military ranks trusts those governments enough to share any important operational information with them because those governments are so fragmented & contain so many Islamic extremists within them -- Saudi is a perfect example of this problem.

Ahmadinejad is the front man for the senior Ayatolla council...he actually has very limited powers and there was nothing democratic about his 'election' to the presidency...as for Israel's military history: the 1973 Yom Kippur War victory was very costlyl for the Israelis and the 2006 summer war with Hesbollah was a draw...any future fight with Iran would likely be a combination set-piece and asymmetic war...if that fight goes nuclear all bets are off...and we'd all better over & kiss our butts goodbye...India & Pakistan will decide that the gauntlet has been thrown down and they nuke-it-out...the Chinks won't take kindly to a nuke war on their southern flank and may intercede through the north Indian highlands...and Beijing may see the war as an opportunity to attack Taiwan because of our perceived pre-occupation with SW Asia events. That most assuredly wouldn't be a good thing.

No, my friends, I don't see much opportunity for the 'globalists' to make advances in their alleged plot to take over the world in an Iran invasion scenario...we still get too much of our energy supply the Middle East but the volume is much smaller than y'all think it is...most of our foreign oil supply comes from Mexico, Canada, the North Sea fields off Europe, and South America.

If I were Emperor of the Universe for even one day I'd smack our Congress up-side the head and make them open up our proven reserves and force them to allow further exploration on and off-shore on our continent...and then fund private research into new energy sources...we can't continue to use hydrocarbon fuels forever and better energy sources are out there...given enough incentive our capitalist system will find and market them...then we can pull away from those primitives and let them go back to raping their sheep & goats. 

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MahaRushie37

The United States Military in total is less than 500,000 men and women.

 

Sometimes, we the people talk a big game when we are not the ones with a weapon pointed at us.  Of course we have to do something.  Without firing a shot we could Blockade the Strait of Hormuz.

 

ErnieGs 

JColes, I agree with your assessment of developing our reserves If they were designated for domestic use. Global Capitalism, as apposed to some form of patriotic capitalism will not allow that.

If Ahmadinejad was not democraticlly elected we will have to redefine democracy, as something other than popular vote.

I am in disagreement on Israels military capability. I am assuming that if war developed between the Israealies and Persians, Isreal would not except the rules of engagement forced on them by the U.N. and U.S. in the last skirmish. Lebanon would quickly be overun and Hesbollah would be as distant a memory like Yasser Arafat.

All this is nothing more than the global elitist deception that its our responsability to controll the middleast. The invasion of Iraq is nothing more than the pursuit of the globalist agenda to bring the middleast into the global fold.